Writing Challenge: Snowman Children's Story

 Greetings! Are you ready for another writing challenge? I like to mix up these writing prompts to give you a chance to think outside the box with your creativity. When we always write in the same genre, we get into patterns that repeat sentence structures and word choices. We often don't even realize the habits we have found ourselves stuck in. 

Changing genres for writing prompts helps writers refresh our writing styles. We push ourselves to change up our normal sentence structures and vocabulary. This doesn't mean that we have to change what genres we write in for our own writing projects. It does mean that we can approach them with fresh ideas and new options to keep our writing exciting and relatable for our readers. 

For students, this applies to nonfiction and academic writing as well. We don't want everything we write to be predictable and lackluster. 


The Knitting Snowman

Snowballs 

Can you guess what genre I am going to ask you to write in today by these pictures? If you guessed children's literature, you're right! 

Challenge one: Write a very short story or an introduction to a short story for ages 5-7. Think about what that age would want to hear if the book was being read to them. Also, though, these are beginning readers, so you can try to write for this age as if they will read it themselves. You can search for examples of words they might know how to read as beginners. You can use either snowperson or both of them. 

Challenge two: Write an entire story based on one or both of these pictures that could be read to preschoolers (ages 2-4). You need to keep the story somewhat simplistic yet relatable. Look through some children's books or search online for free stories to find examples if you are unsure of how to write this (or think of your own friends or family members with children this age). 

This can also be a fun excuse to browse your local bookstore for children's books if you are unsure about the style or vocabulary choices for this challenge. 


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