Journal Writing Ideas

This page has a list of journal writing ideas (prompts) for your child. If your child is finished with the current writing project, have him/her choose a prompt and write about it in his/her journal. Your child may also write about what he/she is doing each day to keep busy or how he/she is feeling about all the changes they have had to go through in the last month.

• Weekly News (Write about what has been going on this past week)

• While hunting for Easter eggs, I stumbled upon a magical egg and...

• Imagine you could change the end of a book. What book would you choose? What would your new ending be?

• If you could be any age, what age would you be AND why?

• What are your favorite things to do outside?

• Where would you bury your hidden treasure AND why?

• What are you scared of AND why?

• What are you looking forward to doing outside as the weather gets warmer?

• What is the one thing you used to do, but aren't able to do right now, that you miss the most?

• If you could create your own animal, what would it look like? What would it be called? What would it eat? Where would it live?

• If you could create your own flower, what would it look like? What would you name it?