Let child get creative
Harmony Tulip
Creative writing not only helps improve your child's creativity, it
also helps improve their vocabulary and writing skills. When I was a
child, my mother had me writing stories all the time. I still have all
my old stories bound together now and I love to look back at what I
wrote when I was young.
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* This is my personal favourite creative writing exercise, I learned
it in fourth grade and I still use it today. If your child has writer's
block, I have a suggestion to get those creative thoughts flowing. First
you need to find a picture of a person or an animal.
Magazines are the best way to go to find pictures for this exercise.
Next, prompt your child to write you a story about the picture that you
have given them.
Tell them to be sure to cover whom, what, when, where, how, and why.
Their story will write itself and your child will be impressed with what
they can come up with on their own.
* Have the child pretend to be an animal such as a bird, horse, or
dolphin. Have them write from the animal's point of view. What are they
thinking, what do they see?
* You can improve your child's vocabulary and encourage them to write
at the same time. The materials that you need to supply for child in
this activity in addition to pen and paper are their vocabulary list for
school or a list of ten words that you have chosen out of the dictionary
and their definitions. Have the child write a story that contains all of
the words that you have given them in their correct context.
* Have the child write its own fairy tale. They can incorporate as
little or as much of pre-existing fairy tales as they want, but have
them create a completely different ending. Maybe it doesn't even have to
end "Happily ever after".
* One of my favourite writing exercises that I have ever participated
in are, when you have multiple people writing a story. Whether you are
the other party helping to write the story or there is another child
helping write the story.
Write two sentences of a story then pass it along to have them write
two sentences then switch. Repeat it until someone finally ends it.
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