Summer Writing Prompts

 


Our summer writing prompts collection - which includes a slideshow, writing prompt worksheets and matching story paper, all supporting a set of colourful photographic posters - is designed to help your child use all their senses to put themselves into a picture, brainstorm some useful vocabulary and come up with some interesting and creative summer writing.

Butterfly Story Starter

Butterfly Story Starter

If I could fly like a butterfly ...

What would the kids do if they could fly like a butterfly? Use this simple story starter page to find out.

Butterfly Story Starter 2

Butterfly Story Starter 2

What happens next in this story? We've worded it so that kids can take it in many different directions, and it will be fun to see what they come up with.

Summer Scene Posters

Summer Scene Posters

These bright and colourful summer scene posters are perfect for bringing some cheer to your home or classroom in the summer, but they're also great to use for writing activities.

Summer Scene Writing Prompt Slideshow

Summer Scene Writing Prompt Slideshow

The summer pictures included in this slideshow should give kids plenty of inspiration for putting pen to paper and doing some writing! Can they brainstorm lots of words to describe their senses and emotions when they see each scene? 

Summer Scene Writing Prompt Worksheets

Summer Scene Writing Prompt Worksheets

Planning a summer-themed story is much easier with the help of our summer scene writing prompts! The kids simply need to pick one of the scenes, then do some brainstorming in the boxes to kick off their creative writing process.

World's Biggest Strawberry Newspaper Worksheet

World's Biggest Strawberry Newspaper Worksheet

Imagine that someone had just grown the world's biggest strawberry and that you had to write up a newspaper report. The strawberry is so big that it was front page news! How big would it be? What would it look like? Who grew it, and why? What happens next?

More Summer Creative Writing Resources

Summer Story Starters
Summer Story Starters

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