Educators and parents who want to motivate and inspire kids with meaningful writing activities can find some interesting writing categories, questions, and prompts below.

My and my family

Write a book about yourself and your characteristics/interests

• Add facts like age, height, hair and eye color.
• Write about your main interests/hobbies and why.
• Tell about your favorite food, clothes, color, number, etc.

Make a book about your family and friends

• Take photos of people who are near and dear to you.
• Write about your relationship to these people and tell a few things that characterize them. Get inspiration from the list above.

My room and toys

Take photos of your room and write about the things you like best

• Why do you like those things? What do they mean to you?
• How do you use your favorite things and with who?
• When did you get them and who gave them to you?

Create your own toy story

• Make scenes with your toys; take pictures and create your own fiction story.
• Make a few notes about the beginning, middle, and end of your story before writing your story.

Holiday and family events

My vacation diary

• Take photos of what you experienced on your trip and write some text to go along with it.
• Send your book(s) to friends or grandparents as a digital post card.

Write about great family celebrations/feasts and national holidays

• Make memory scrapbooks about special events in the family like birthdays, first day at school, babies, weddings, etc.
• Take photos and write about what you do and with whom for holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, Christmas, etc.

Manuals or cookbooks

Write your own ’how-to’ book

• Take screenshots of your favorite games/programs and write about how to build your own world in Minecraft (for example), or how to create drawings or music on your computer.
• Write a book about how to play your favorite board game, how to take care of your pet, or how to make a perfect braid. Write about anything that you are good at and that others can learn from you.

Cooking, baking, and writing

• Make your favorite dish or cake and take photos along the way.
• Afterward, write your own cookbook and share it with friends and family.

I like … 

Write books about your idols and favorite teams/players

• Search for images on the internet of your idols or take photos of your fan merchandise. Write a book with relevant info about your favorite singer, band, athlete, sports team, etc.

Top 5 lists

• Make books of personal top 5 lists. Add one image and one explanation per page for each thing on your list.
• The lists can be about idols and favorite athletes/teams as mentioned above but also topics such as movies, books, games, food, candy, colors, animals, etc.
• The image search functionality in the app can be useful to find images for a variety of top 5 lists.

Alphabet and numbers

Write your own alphabet and number books

• Make a page for every letter in the alphabet. Take a photo of things in your house starting with each letter. Write sentences to go along with it, such as ’A is for apple.’
• Make a page for all the numbers from 1-20. Take photos of objects/people and write sentences like ’I have 1 mother,’ ’I have 2 rabbits,’ ’My brother is 3 years old,’ and so on.