Creative Writing Ideas For Kids

Getting children writing is a great way to build their vocabulary, their confidence, increase knowledge and just get them to have fun whilst doing something incredibly creative and rewarding.

There are many creative writing ideas for kids and the key is to make the ideas fun and interesting, so they actually want to take part and don't perceive it as work, more of a pleasure.

Here's one of many fun creative writing ideas for kids. The main focus of this article is to make the link between using different ingredients in bread and the words and different aspects to writing a poem...

Bread is like poetry because you can share it with your friends. It can nourish you and you don't need many ingredients to make it.

Here's a loaf of bread. Here's a poem.

What is a loaf of bread made of? Flour, yeast, salt, sugar, water.
What is a poem made of? WORDS! More specifically nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.

And like bread, there are many different kinds of poems.
What kinds of bread are there? White, brown, wholemeal, teacakes, baguette, pita, chapatti, rolls, baps, etc.

What kind of poems are there? Ballads, sonnets, haiku, longs poems, short poems, sad poems, funny poems, fat poems, thin poems.

Poetry is like bread and writing poetry is a bit like baking bread. Let’s see how.

How do you make a loaf of bread?

1/First you gather together all the ingredients.

2/Then you put them into a bowl and mix them together.

3/Then you knead the dough.

4/Then you leave the dough to prove and swell and grow

5/ Then you shape the dough.

6/Then you put the dough into the oven and bake it.

7/ When you take the dough out of the oven it has changed. It's cooked through and s ready to eat. It has changed into a loaf of bread.

Now let’s see just how making is poem is like baking bread.

Here are my ingredients: words: nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives.

Pick a noun, a verb, an adjective and an adverb. Put them into the bowl and stir them with the spoon. Tip them out on to the table. Read what you've got.

Now we need to kind of knead the ingredients, work them into a new shape and think about what we're going to do, we're going to leave the idea to prove and swell. We're going to put the raw ingredients, the words into the oven of our brains until they are baked into a poem.

Why don't you have a go at baking a nice fat poem, why not an ode. An ode is a kind of poem that is addressed to, or sings the praises of an object or a person.

Have fun with your writing. This is just one of many creative writing ideas for kids supplied to the site by Gaia Holmes.