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Activities to support children's creative writing.
Here are some activities that will help to spark your child's imagination when it comes to creative writing. There are exercises to create interesting characters, stories, letters, comics and poems and they can even design the cover for their bestseller!
Planning a story
All good stories need a good idea. Here are some story starters.
Planning your story
Get your story going with this quick plotting sheet. Who's your main character? What is the setting? How does it end?
2020 has been a significant year in our history and you were a part of it. We’d like to invite you to write a letter to a child in 2030 telling them what life was like for you last year and send it to us.
Watch carefully chosen videos about creative writing. Meet a girl who wants to be a writer, transform yourself into a fairytale character on which to base your story, or write 'The Book of Me'. Here is a selection of Usborne Quicklinks all about creative writing and story starters.