Winter Writing Prompts for Kids

Homeschool Group.

Or as I like to call it, "the part of the week where I partially teach, partially act like an 9 year-old again."

Regardless of how I refer to it, I know that Creative Writing with all the kiddos is one of the best parts of my week.

I've decided to become more organized with my classes this year. The first step to becoming organized for me, is to pick a theme to focus on for each month. Since we only meet four times a month, I felt having a theme would help me narrow down my field of focus and also help the kids connect better to the material.

I also decided to introduce Speech writing this year. We're going to start that in March. For now, our schedule will look more like two weeks of creative story telling, one week of terms and one week of poems.

The theme for January is "Winter". It's cold. It's snowy and wet. It's PERFECT for January.

Week 1 - Write me directions on how to build a snowman. (Note: most of the kids will break out in song singing, "Do you want to build a snowman?!" It's totally worth adding this one in!)

Week 2 - Write an Acrostic poem about Winter:

Examples: 
Warm cup of hot chocolate
Inside, where it's warm
Need heat
Turn up the thermostat!
Everyone is cold
Really, everyone is cold

             AND

Warmth from the fireplace
Icicles glisten in rays of sunlight
New snow blankets the Earth
The world sits quiet beneath winter's chill
Each dawn inches closer to new life
Renew life beneath the weight of your cold

Week 3 - Write a short story about having a pet penguin.

Week 4 - Cold weather makes me thing about....
                 Write down 10 things.

I hope these give you some ideas to use with your own students! Do you have some ideas for other creative writing prompts for the theme of "Winter"?

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