Story Paper
A combination of colouring page and writing lines, these our story paper pages encourage children's imagination and are a fun and unique writing resource for school or home. We hope you love these story paper printables as much as we do! Our story paper comes in a variety of styles and often includes both handwriting lines and ruled lines.
We have built up a huge resource of over 1,000 story paper pages, which means that you should be able to find something for all occasions and to appeal to a wide range of children. Explore below or jump straight to the section you require:
We have many ideas and suggestions of ways to use our story paper here.
Seasonal Story Paper
Mark the changing of the season by writing stories with the kids! We've got a huge selection of appealing story paper for the seasons, and something to appeal to both younger and older children.
Special Story Paper
Something a little different, and perfect for encouraging older children to think and get creative...
Story Paper by Topic
Whatever your child's interest, or the topic you are doing, we could well have some story paper that's perfect for you!
Holiday Story Paper
Holidays, which are so exciting for children, are the perfect time for story-writing. Encourage the children to use their imagination and practise their creative writing skills with this selection of story paper. The larger holidays are listed below, but we have story paper for most of the smaller holidays too, here.
How To Use Our Story paper
The idea behind our story paper is that for a reluctant writer a blank page can be rather daunting. With a small number of lines and a picture prompt we hope our story paper is accessible for even the most reluctant writer. We have used the term 'story paper' but the only limit to how these pages can be used is your imagination. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Early Writers
- Use to practise letter formation. Choose one of our simple pictures with handwriting lines and practise writing letters along the lines. You could link the picture to the letter eg use our penguin story paper to practise writing "p"
- Choose your child's favourite picture and use the lines for them to practise writing their name
- Ask children to dictate a sentence about the picture for an adult to write down. The child can then colour in the picture.
- Use for copywork or dictation
- An adult could write a sentence lightly for a child to trace
- Of course, the small number of lines make our story paper ideal for first attempts at writing sentences.
Creative Writing
- Use one of simpler story pages to write a story about the person or creature in the image
- Rather than a full story, children could describe the character of the person or animal in the picture
- Our more detailed pages could be used to prompt a story based on what is happening in the scene, what might have happened before, or what they think might happen next
- Children could write a play set in the scene
- Where there are people or animals in the picture, children could imagine a conversation that is taking place
- Children could imagine and write a diary entry for the person or the event in the picture.
Other Ideas
- Ask children to describe what they see in the picture, perhaps after they have coloured it in (which gives them a chance to study what is happening).
- Many of the pages lend themselves to cross-curricula activities, such as telling the story of a historical event, describing an animal's habitat, writing an autobiography of a famous person, retelling a myth or fairy tale, describing the customs of a holiday, etc.
- Use the pages to write an autobiography or journal. Children can choose pages to write about events that they experience; our holiday pages are especially useful for this.
- Our tree, flower, lifecycle and animal pages are excellent for recording observations on nature walks or in the garden.
- Use the pages for goal setting. Many of our word art and quotation pages would be very useful here. Children could choose a famous person and explain why they are their hero and how the inspire them.
- Encourage children's observation skills. Ask them to colour the picture and then set some questions about the picture for a friend.
- Use the story paper to write up work "in best".
- Write letters to friends or family and colour in the picture - a treat for special people to receive!
We also have blank story paper and extra writing sheets in our Printable Lined Paper section.
