Summer Holiday Writing Prompts

Fun and Free Activities, Ideas and Creative Projects for Children

© Sallie Schaaf Borrink

Bald Eagle and American Flag of Red, White & Blue, Pam Roth
Celebrate June, July and August with kids and motivate young writers with inexpensive writing ideas related to vacation, Father's Day, Fourth of July and Independence Day

Summer is here! It’s time to have fun and celebrate all of those great holidays while keeping young writers on track over vacation. Use these fun writing activities to enjoy the season, but also retain everything learned over the past year.

Summer Alphabet Book

Have child write a sentence and illustrate one page for each letter of the alphabet. The content for each page can be anything related to summer.

Movie Review and Poster

Select and watch a summer or dad-themed movie. Write a movie review and attach the review to a poster the child designed and colored him/herself.

Stand Up Story

Choose one of the writing prompts below and write about it. Then, create and color stand-up characters and setting pieces in order to retell the story to younger children who can’t read (people, houses, other locations, etc.). Use stiff tagboard for the stand-up pieces and stand them up by folding the bottom. If necessary, reinforce with a strip taped on the back and connected to the base.

Illustrated Summer Journal

Purchase or make a summery looking journal. Each day, have the student write a few sentences about that day in the journal with a different page for each day. Illustrate with pencil drawing, markers, stickers, or pictures cut from magazines or off the internet.

Puppet Show

After writing about one of the prompts below, take the story and write a script for a puppet show. Make a small theater out of a box and make tagboard puppets mounted on popsicle sticks to present the puppet show to an audience.

Summer Writing Prompts - June, July, August

Father’s Day Writing Prompts

Fourth of July and Independence Day Writing Prompts

Enjoy a great summer and keep your student on track academically with these fun writing projects and prompts.

Other writing prompts and projects:

Spring and Summer Writing Activities

Fun Spring Writing Project Ideas


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Bald Eagle and American Flag of Red, White & Blue, Pam Roth
       



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