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Choose Your Adventure Stories- With Printable Writing Prompts

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My son and I have been writing a choose your adventure story together this week for school. This is such a fun creative writing activity and I have even included a FREE printable to help you do it at home.  (Updated- we did this many years ago & have redone it with new images. The kids STILL love it!)

 

Choose Your Adventure Writing Prompts

Here is what we did:

We decided our story would be about superheroes, but you could choose anything, really. We wrote about 10 superheroes on little slips of paper and put them into a bowl.

choose adventure story

We decided on three other categories: locations, villains (of course!), and catastrophes/disasters that the heroes would solve. Each category got its own bowl. Then, we chose one paper from each bowl and began writing our story.

Creative Writing- Choose Your Own Adventure

We were the charatcers in the story- along with the chosen hero & villain. My son (who is only 6-years-old) illustrated the story & we both chose what would happen, while I wrote for him.  He is not terribly comfortable writing his own story yet, so I wrote what he told me.  Older kids could easily do this on their own, though.  It ended up being a lot of fun. I think we will continue it with many more heroes & villains & make it into a little book.

Want to download a copy of the Choose Your Adventure Writing Prompts?  DOWNLOAD NOW!

What fun writing ideas have you tried to mix things up and make writing more interesting?  We also have had a LOT of fun with our Story Starter Blocks.
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  1. Nadene says

    July 11, 2011 at 10:57 am

    I really love your story cubes and story starter ideas! Great fun way to bring some creativity to the writing process!

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  2. Susan Evans says

    February 29, 2016 at 2:53 pm

    What a fun writing activity!

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  3. Mother of 3 says

    February 29, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    What a fun idea! My boys will love this!!

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  4. Shecki @ Greatly Blessed says

    February 29, 2016 at 5:52 pm

    What a cute idea! 🙂

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  5. Robyn D says

    March 7, 2016 at 3:21 pm

    I wish I had run across this when ds was younger. He is doing great with his stories now. Maybe we will try this when he gets another attack of writer’s block.

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  6. Simply Knowledge Homeschool says

    March 9, 2016 at 3:28 pm

    I really like this idea! I will use this in our homeschool.

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Hi! I'm Karyn.
I am a former teacher turned homeschool mom of four kids. I LOVE teaching! I believe learning should be enjoyable and engaging. My goal is to ease the burdens of educators by offering memorable learning activities.
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