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Prompt children into writing with our varied collection of writing prompts, which can be used with a variety of ages. Some come in packs and some are individual downloads. Explore below!
There are 24 diary writing prompts in this pack, covering all sorts of professions including "people who help us". We ask children to put themselves into a particular profession for the day and write a diary entry. Kids can make it factual, or get creative!
Here's a fun page to get the kids thinking and writing! What are their best smells? Best sounds? Once they get started it might be hard to pick only a few to write down. Don't forget to sign and date the page and keep it to enjoy in the future.
Picture prompts like this fall scene are a great way to get kids involved in creative writing. The children can think about what they see in the picture, and write some ideas in the boxes provided.
There are 4 beautifully illustrated festive scenes in this pack of four posters. They look lovely as part of Christmas decorations or displays, and there are lots of details on each one for the kids to look at and talk about...
Cosy Christmas scenes are the perfect setting for festive stories, and we've got four lovely ones to choose from in this pack. They're bound to inspire some Christmas creative writing, or the kids can simply describe what they see on the pictures...
Inspire some writing creativity this Christmas with the help of our festive scene slideshow.
Each of these four festive scenes is surrounded by prompts to help the children brainstorm story ideas, and they're a great way to help the kids gets started with writing some Christmas stories or poetry.
You don't need to be scared of writing if you use our paragraph writing prompts to help you! This one is all about a spooky ghost, so it's perfect for Halloween...
Halloween is a great time of year for sparking the imagination, and the children can write a couple of sentences about a spooky ghost using our Ghost Sentence Writing Prompt to encourage them...
A haunted house is the perfect setting for a creative story, and we've started the kids off with a useful prompt at the beginning of each paragraph...
Here's a perfect creative writing worksheet for Halloween! Can the kids use our prompts to help them write a couple of sentences about the haunted house in the picture?
Here's a fun writing prompt page to get the kids putting pen to paper at Halloween. Can the children describe the Jack-o'-Lantern on the worksheet, then describe a design that they would like to carve?
This Jack-o'-Lantern Sentence Writing Prompt page is ideal for helping younger kids to write a couple of Halloween-themed sentences.
The kids will enjoy using their imaginations to write a couple of sentences about this silly monster! The prompts at the start of each paragraph should start them off...
The fun monster picture on this writing prompt is bound to inspire the kids to write a couple of descriptive sentences!
Make a list of your favourite books and sign and date it. It will be fun to look back on in the future. Why not update the list once a year, on your birthday or World Book Day, perhaps?
Everybody has a favourite movie or two, or three, or four .... or twenty! See if the kids can think about and write down their favourite movies here on this fun page. Sign and date the page so that you can look back on it and giggle!
What songs do your children love? Find out when they fill out this fun journal page with their favourite music. Sign and date it and you will have something fun to look back on and compare in the future.
Children will enjoy filling out (and perhaps colouring in) this fun journal page with their favourite places to visit. Will it be the shops, the seaside, the funfair? Or their friend's house, or grandma's?
Most kids have a favourite TV show ... or many! It will be fun to think about which they are and record them on this page. Sign and date it and have a look in a year or so. What's changed?
Inventing new things is a lot of fun! If you could invent anything, what would it be? Draw your invention inside the lightbulb on this worksheet then write a little about what your invention will do...
"Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble!" Shakespeare himself wrote about witches and potions, and now the kids can have their own turn writing about potions with our fun writing prompt!
Here's a fun writing prompt that's perfect for Halloween. Write a sentence describing the potion, then write another describing what might happen if you drink it - could be scary!
Sunshine, ice-cream, the seaside, roses and lavender - these are just some of the things I love about summer. Get the kids to write down what they love using this fun printable.
Can the children study the Thanksgiving Dinner picture scene then answer a few questions all about what they see? We've included the answers on the following page for guidance.
The hardest part of writing is getting started! Picture prompts are an effective tool for getting kids to start a story, so we've put a Thanksgiving dinner scene at the centre of this writing prompt worksheet.
Prompt the children to write a little about Thanksgiving using our paragraph writing prompt worksheet - the colourful picture of the cornucopia at the top of page should help to inspire them!
Inspire younger kids to get started with some writing using our colourful Thanksgiving sentence writing prompt. Can they describe the cornucopia, then write a sentence describing their own Thanksgiving celebrations?
Writing down the things that make you happy is such a useful exercise for all children - and adults too! In fact it is now quite fashionable to do this regularly, perhaps once a month or even at the end of every day.
Our fun tractor paragraph writing prompt page is bound to get even reluctant writers putting pen to paper! Can the children write a paragraph describing a tractor, and another describing the jobs that it does?
What do you enjoy most about trick or treating? Write a paragraph about it, and another paragraph describing the delicious looking candy!
Even the most reluctant writers will enjoy writing about trick or treating on this fun Halloween-themed worksheet.
Write a list of tricks to teach the dog - and then you can tick them off when you have done it! Start with "sit" and "stay", perhaps?
Spark off some creative writing at Halloween or any time of year with this fun Vampire paragraph writing prompt.
Our writing prompts are a great way to fire the imagination! Can the children write two sentences about the vampire, one describing him and the other describing where he might live?
You could tackle this What Makes Me Me worksheet during an "All About Me" topic, or perhaps at the beginning of a new school year.
This pack of 23 writing prompt pages asks the children to think about why they enjoy - Music, Musical Instruments, Bagpipes, Cello, Clarinet, Cymbals, Didgeridoo, Double Bass, Drums, Flute, French Horn, Guitar, Harmonica, Harp, Piano, Recorder, Saxophone, Tambourine, Triangle, Trombone, Trumpet,
There are 37 pages to choose from in this download - including, hopefully, the sport that your child can be prompted to write about! Each page has a space on the left for a picture and ruled lines on the right. In this pack you will find pages for Why I Love ...
There have been many spooky stories written about witches, and now the children can write their own paragraphs about a witch and a spell she has cast with the help of this prompting worksheet.
Inspire some creative writing with this spooky witch sentence writing prompt. How will the children describe the witch, and can they describe a spell she might cast?