Winter Writing Prompts for Kids with Printable Included!

As we shiver into the cold weather months, it’s the perfect time to bring out our fabulous Gnome-themed Winter Writing Prompts for kids. Kids love these fun winter writing activities and are inspired to put words on paper by the adorable illustrations. 

What are Writing Prompts? 

In the world of homeschooling, writing prompts are the best way to help your kids learn how to tap into creative writing in a fun way. Using creative writing prompts, like the winter prompt examples below, can help elementary students hone in on important language arts and writing skills.

In addition, using themed writing prompts can help you get through a particular season, concept, and the like. Winter writing prompts can also be used to learn amazing things that happen during winter time all while providing fun winter activities during winter break.

Why Winter Writing Prompts for Kids

Any time you can connect a fun theme to what your kids are doing for school it’s a win-win situation. Winter Writing Prompts for kids cover fun seasonal themes kids will relate to and find inspiring. They also help with narrative writing, writing short stories, or even creating a longer story.

How to Use Winter Writing Prompts for Kids

The most important thing to remember with our writing prompts is that you should have limited rules. It’s okay to have a minimum number of words you want your student to write or a set amount of time they have to put pen to paper. Beyond that, the only rule should be that there are no rules. Let your kids get creative, write fiction or non-fiction, stick to the obvious ending or go off the rails with some crazy spin-off, write a short story, an essay, a letter, or even a poem. Freedom breeds creativity. 

Here are some practical ways to implement our Winter Writing Prompts in your homeschool. 

1. Set aside a specific time each day or a specific day each week when your students will be asked to tackle a writing prompt. 
2. Set the mood. Play soft and quiet music or run a sound machine. 
3. Make sure the area where your students will write is free of distractions. Turn off the television or radio, close any other open programs on the computer, get the puppy settled.
4. Print off the complete gnome-themed winter writing prompts book and then let each of your students pick one to work on. Give them five minutes to choose, or let your students go through and pick several all at once and put those in a folder for future use. The gnome illustrations really make these writing prompts come alive so I do highly recommend you grab the printable. 

Printable Gnome-Themed Winter Writing Prompts Book

Our book includes all twenty of the story starters in two different formats. Each story starter is offered on a page with handwriting lines for younger children and a page with notebook lines for older children. The downloadable and printable book of winter writing prompts is ready to use and 40 pages in length. 

Twenty Winter Writing Prompts for Kids

1. I thought if I worked really hard I could build the perfect snowman, so I got started. Then I saw the craziest thing . . .
2. As I stumbled out of my igloo early one morning, I saw danger right outside the door. The fresh, deep snow was providing the perfect camouflage for a huge polar bear less than twenty feet away. 
3. It’s winter season, and that means ice skating and skiing. My family and I are planning the perfect vacation. Here’s the plan .  .  .
4. My Dad was in shock when I first started an aggressive snowball fight in the middle of shoveling the driveway. He recovered quickly and . . .
5. Hot chocolate and marshmallows are two of my favorite things about snow days. After we had been playing outside for hours in the snow, Mom started making our traditional snack, but suddenly we realized . . .

Purchase the Gnome-themed printable winter writing prompts pack to get access to 15 more prompts!

More Great Story Starters! 

• Christmas Writing Prompts
• Nutcracker Writing Prompts
• Thanksgiving Writing Prompts
• Autumn Writing Prompts
• Football Writing Prompts
• Fairy Tale Writing Prompts
• Back To School Writing Prompts

 If you’re looking to come up with your own writing prompts, use the following topics as inspiration:

• gingerbread house
• snowy day
• favorite winter sport
• month of December
• frozen tree branches
• a frozen lake
• biggest slope for skiing
• Christmas tree
• best snow fort
• winter blues
• gingerbread cookies

These are just a few ideas to help get you and you’re kids’ creative writing juices flowing. They can easily be turned into fun winter writing prompts and help even the most reluctant writer. You can also turn these into picture prompts by finding them online and printing them off!

Final Thoughts

As we enter into the winter season and winter holidays, switch things up a bit by using winter prompts for writing. Grab a few writing journals and let your kids have a writing good time!

Download your Gnome Themed Winter Writing Prompts

These Gnome themed Winter writing prompts include twenty pages with lines appropriate for beginning handwriting, and twenty pages with lines appropriate for older students.

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