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Maybe you wrote your first words in the sand. It’s a great place to begin but the tide washes it away. Then you learn that writing it on paper, and computers, blogs and notebooks and it starts to stay alive for longer. I have been searching sites that encourage children to write. I came across some real gems and my children have been enjoying my findings and have been writing using the prompts all afternoon.
I love this site,
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/piratedog_book.html
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/inventaworld.html
It has lots of cool activities. I especially like the visual prompts. There are some great looking books which when I have enough look like they are worth purchasing.
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/storykitchen.html (Story kitchen site)
http://www.brucevanpatter.com/creativetimestips.html
Another site that is lots of fun is the writing fix site http://writingfix.com/writingfix_for_kids.htm It has some fun writing prompt games focusing on different aspects like adjectives, setting, colour and memory. My kids really enjoyed mucking around with it and writing down some of the mixtures from the screen down. Basically you click the options until you get a subject that you really love particularly like. My kids got inspired and started to substitute their own words into it. One started to write a story about a dog that cleaned clouds- it turned into a story about a dog cleaning space, and my daughter is working on one about a rainbow coloured cat. When I visited the official Crayola site I found some really useful ideas that I might like to use in my writing workshops.
Crayola has a few things worth looking at. The story spinner idea would be fun to make.
Writing Crayola
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/crayola-poetry-coloring-page/
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/movie-frame-coloring-page/
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/once-upon-a-time-coloring-page/
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/story-spinner-coloring-page/
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/print/edgar-allan-poe-coloring-page/
Other Interesting Websites
This site has a tram that you jump on with creative tasks like the lunchbox interview and other ideas.
http://www.outbackonline.net/tram/activity6.htm [Making a suitcase]
There are many more sites to explore and I will continue searching for great creative writing ones. We’ve found enough to do us for now though!
