Writing Ideas

• Pobble 365 - choose an image & use the prompts to create a piece of writing

Funny Writing Prompts:

• Describe the most disgusting school lunch you can imagine. How do the other kids react to it?

• Would you rather have glitter rain down on you when you walked through a doorway or have your shoes make a loud honking sound with every step? Explain your choice.

• Imagine you spend the entire school day with four hands. How are things different?

• Picture two kids sitting face-to-face with cardboard boxes on their heads. They are playing a game. You write the rules.

• You wake up one morning, and dogs can talk. Describe your day.

• A witch casts a spell on your mum so she can only meow instead of talk. You spend Saturday working with her to break the spell.

• You try a new shampoo and it makes leafy branches sprout from your head. How do you get through your day?

• It's opposites day, and you have to say everything as an opposite. Write about your favorite food.

• A baby is your substitute teacher. What happens?

• You wake up one morning with a tail. How does it help or get in the way?

• Write a story about a character who only knows how to say the word "Yes."

• You have a dream that you are performing your favourite song in front of the entire school while wearing a horse mask. Then, you realize it isn't actually a dream. What is going on?

Fiction Writing Prompts:

• Your neighbour tells you she saw a werewolf.

• Your mum asks you to move a picture on your living room wall. When you lift it up, an envelope falls out. It has $1,000 in it.

• A character wakes up surrounded by mist. He or she starts walking, and the mist begins to clear. What does the world look like?

• Every time you open a book, the first page disappears and is replaced by a single word. It's always the same with every book you try to read. What is the word and why does it keep appearing?

• Your main character finds an old film camera in his or her grandparents' house. It still has film in it. When they develop the film, what do the pictures show?

• You find a journal from 1865. It's written by an 11-year-old. You read it, and on the last page, it says, "Please come help me." What happens next?

• The main character of your story wakes up one morning to discover he or she has aged five years overnight.

• You step into your grandmother's coat closet and discover it leads to a jungle. What happens if you step inside?

• Write a story about a boy who wakes up one morning as his own dad and has to go to work in an office.

• You're riding your bike home from your friend's house one evening when you see a UFO. It lands on the path in front of you.

• Write a story about someone who is afraid to try anything new. What happens when that person has to become a taste tester for a cooking show?

• A new girl joins your class. During math, she passes you a note that says, "Do you remember me?"

• Write a story about children who have a magical tea party with animals.