- Heather M.
- Friday, June 24, 2022
Take a break! Picture books provide the perfect starting point for telling your own story.
Read The Day the Crayons Quit. Think of a new color (Magenta, anyone?) and tell their story. Why is your crayon quitting?
Turn your story into a performance by dressing in your crayon's color and acting out their letter for your family. Don't forget to take a bow!
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is chock full of opening lines for stories accompanied by inspiring images. Pick an opening line and image that spark your imagination and tell what happens next.
For a challenge, open the book at random and let chance dictate what story you will tell.
Read I Am Every Good Thing. Think about all the good things about you. Tell someone about those good things. Sing a song about how awesome you are.
If you're feeling really inspired, try writing a short poem about one of your good qualities or one of your dreams:
I am one eye open, one eye closed,
peeking through a microscope,
gazing through a telescope
checking out the spaces
around me
and plotting out those far-off places
I have yet to go—but will.
If this brain break has your creative juices flowing, consider submitting your original stories or poems for possible inclusion in Richland Library's literary magazine, Kids in Print.
Contributors must live in the Midlands and be 6-18 years-old for consideration.