Here are some examples of creative writing ideas for children:  

• You accidentally find out your best friend is from another planet. What do you do?
• You are walking down your street and suddenly you hear a loud strange noise. What is happening?
• You're riding on a carousel and the horses suddenly leave the ride and begin galloping away. Where does your horse take you?

  Topics could include:  

• What will I be doing in ten years?
• My favorite place to be is...
• If I could invent something, it would be .

Encourage students to write creatively using poetry. Poetry is written to cause an emotional response, so think of topics that involve the senses.

• Describe a weather condition such as lightening, hail, or sleet in your poem.
• Write a poem about how jealousy feels
• Create a poem about an irrational fear that you suffer from.

  Journals  

Have your child keep a journal; this encourages writing on a regular basis and helps instill an enjoyment of writing. You can create three story jars with labels of "Who", "Where", and "What". Fill each jar with slips of paper containing imaginative subjects for each category. Have students draw one slip from each jar and write a story using these subjects.

Use history as a way to generate writing topics. Ask children to research and write creatively about events that happened on their birthday. Find a person that was born on today's date long ago and write about what they would think if they were alive today. Predict what will happen in the future based on what happened before on today's date.