Collaborative Story Writing

Looking for a creative activity to keep your children engaged during school holidays?

Get them to create a collaborative story. Here’s how to do it:

• Write the first few sentences of a story on a piece of lined paper.

• Hide the start by folding it away and get one of your children to continue from your last sentence.

• Now hide his contribution except for the last line, and pass it on to the next young one.

• Continue until you are ready to read your collaborative work.

We’d love to see your work. Share it with on social media with the hashtag #100SBStoryMakers, and we’ll find it. Alternatively, you can email it to us at info@100storybuilding.org.au or message it to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Parents & Teachers: This activity is a great activity to engage children in a quick, collaborative creative writing activity as the threshold for starting is low.

Things you need for this activity

• A pen / pencil and a paper

• And your imagination!

Follow our #100SBStoryMakers series on social media for activities to get children creating characters, building stories, making up new words and giving lateral thinking a go! 

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