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Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!

Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self!

What if you were chosen to be one of the first settlers on Mars. What do you think life would be like? Use your senses to describe the first couple of days.

http://www.space.com/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html

Share with us! Post your descriptions in the comments section of our blog.

Check us out! Montclair Elementary TMWFI student writing samples

Ode to French Fries by Izzy

Oh you crispy, golden potatoes

You must be my weakness how I love you.

The smell of salt and olive oil,

the taste of a golden award.

But when you leave, I dream of more.

 

"Timo the Taco" Personification by Sophie

Yo! Hey you! I'm talking to myself! And you're gonna listen!

I was born in the Tarantula Taco Tiki. I was made with the finest ground beef, the most expensive cheese, the glossiest lettuce, and the spiciest salsa! Long story short--I'm "rich." But I'm lonesome! I am the taco who dropped out of Taco school two years early. I want to be a detective! But so far all I am is...Timo, the taco detective that never was, or will be!  

 

Ode to Broccoli by Ava

You are like mini trees to

be hacked down by my teeth

with a slight rain of ranch

even though you make my friends gag

I love you.

 

Recipe of Me by Victor

talk a lot

football books

parks

two sisters

1 brother

blue and gold

strawberries

1. Put all ingredients into a big blender.

2. Push fast.

3. Don't forget to put the lid on.

4. Pour in a pot.

5. Turn on the flame.

6. Cook for 7 hours.

7. Pour into bowls.

8. Serve it hot.

9. Serve brownies for desert.

 

Ode to Tea by Laila

Tea, hey you tea, you are my best friend. You are nothing when you are just simple water. You are tasteless and you have no reason to drool. But when your flavor is dropped in, your fabulous self begins in a split second and that is something to lick your lips for. The tea bag swills and the soon-to-be-tea gets its deliciousness by the ticking of the clock. I take the tea bag out and suck it, this is my first taste of your exquisite self. Green, chocolate truffle, lemon, chamomile, vanilla chai, and much more flavors you come in. So tea, hey you tea, I'm talking to you. You are my favorite and I need to taste you again.

 

Ode to Calamari by Tiara

As brown as gold, so crispy that it's sometimes crunchy. It's flavor is dancing on your tongue. Soon the flavor pops then your stomach has a fiesta as it yells "come on, throw more calamari down," but then it stops and every things back to normal.

 

Food Fright by Miles

I hate peanuts! Those ugly crunchy little things. They're moldy and wrinkley. I bet they come from the underworld. Devils made those ugly little peanut things to infect tongues and anything that touches them. Those little meanies. If I eat them one more time I don't know what I would do! I might turn into a devil. Miles the devil. It sounds horrible.

 

Recipe of Me by Lillian

Add the quart of smartness to the 2 cups of memories into a bowl carefully. Put the gallon of love in a bowl with the 5 pinches of silliness and the pint of talkativeness. In the last small bowl, put the bright blue eyes with the teaspoon of cuteness. Then add all of it together and thoroughly add in the 3 tablespoons of athleticness. Once done, bake in a pie plate and put in an oven for 5 hours to bake slowly. Before eating, place on a golden plate. Then eat up.

 

Similes and Metaphors by Allison

The fudge was the deep, rich color of a redwood tree deep in the forest.

The jello shook like a belly dancer in Morocco.

The avocados bumpy skin is like a toad preparing to leap. The avocado is like an oyster, waiting to be opened for its inside beauty.

 

Personification excerpt by Maya

There once lived a tiny cupcake named Babycake. Babycake decided to go on a cruise to Kauaii. She didn't want to leave her home in Mariposa Bakery because she loved it there, but she said goodbye to Papa Pizza, Cindy Cinnamon Roll, Flora Foccacia Bread, Wendy Whoopie Pie, and Chunk Chocolate Chip Cookie and started on her way.  The next morning she was looking at a map and discovered she had made a wrong turn. Babycake tried to go back, but the wind was too strong. It pushed her into an island. When she got off she discovered it was Marshmallow Island. All of a sudden a marshmallow came running up to her...

Recipe of Me Elizabeth T.

Pour the 1 quart of a British accent into a gold plated mixing bowl with the mostly American and German background. Then whisk the batter together while slowly adding the pinch of clumsiness. Then take out a small bowl and grind the 1/4 Cup of talkativeness and the 2 tablespoons of teenage girl show off together. Then pour the gallon of crazy, funny, and random stuff into the pan and saute it with some olive oil and then evely cut it to put it in the bowls that will serve 14.

Similes and Metaphors by Szophia

As the piece of chocolate heaven slips past my lips, I feel the deep cream dance across my tongue like a ballet dancer, with footsteps light as a butterfly's wings.

The jello was the color of a blooming rose, red as the depths of a volcano, it slides around my mouth like a new born colt.

The sweet vanilla ice cream slips down my throat like a breeze on a hot summer day, reviving my throat as if it were a potion made by faeries.

Recipe of Me by Elizabeth G.

1. Put journals and books in large deep bowl. Pound and blow about until all oages are mixed up. Save spines for further use.

2. In a separate bowl drop sugar, spice, fire, and ice. You will see spurts of flame, ice crystals, sugar white marzipan unicorns, and spice demons. DO NOT touch the bowl for at least five minutes or until demeons and unicorns stop trying to kill each other and start to meditate.

3. Go back to where we left off with step 1. Add in the blue something if liquid. Boil over low heat. Add awesomeness 2 cups at a time.

4. Dump the solution of "de laughs" in all at once. You should hear tremendous laughter. This is good.

5. Take bowl off heat.

6 . Return to where we left off with step two. Dump in the Italian food.

(...to be continued)

Ode to Peaches by Talia

I love peaches. They're fuzzy and soft. Inside they're full of juicy peach sweetness. When I take a bite of a yellow crunchy peach, I feel like I am sitting on a big puffy cloud loving my peach.

Where would you go with this?

Our creative writing challenge to you is to look at the image we post below and see where it may take you and your pen. Wake up your imagination and see where this takes you!

Feel free to share anything spurred on by this week's photo in the Comment section below!

Read it and eat! "Take My Word For It" writers featured in Edible East Bay magazine.

For the complete article, see:

http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/summer-2012/secret-recipes.htm

Gems! TMWFI Student Writing Samples

Story Starters: Behind the door...

 

Check us out! Havens Elementary TMWFI student writing samples

Recipe of Me by Alyssa

1. Get out your bowl and put in 50,000 gallons of fun.

2. Then put in 25 pints of milk.

3. Get your spoon and stir it. It should look like fun mixed with milk.

4. Put in 10 pounds of push pops.

5. Mix in 1,000,000 tons of animals.

6. Put in 0 ounces of math and 0 ounces of homework.

7. Then you are finished!

 

Ode to Ice Cream by Jihae

Ice cream is delicious

its flavors are natural

but never would I eat potato or tomato

not even fatato

those ice creams sound impossible, unbearable, ineatable

Although...I do like strawberry, rainbow sherbert, and bubblegum

and these flavors are...stupendous and great, cool and creative

and what more could you say

because I love ice cream!

 

Food Fright by Heidi

I do not like brussel sprouts cus they taste like salt and they are stale. They also look like a ball of snot, so when my dad served it I screamed soooo loud I almost threw up. Then I lost my voice and so I will never eat brussel sprouts again.

 

Similes and Metaphors by Jack

Fudge is the most friendly thing to the taste bud itself. It looks like a lake of chocolate as bright as the sun. It comes in every shape and size. It is the perfect topping for all foods, fudge.

Jello looks like a solid sunset.

Broccoli looks like a bright tree that just sprouted from the ground. It tastes like all the four leaf clovers in Ireland.

 

Ode to Pie by Amy

Oh pie, pie, pie

I love you so much

Perfect crust

Perfect filling

Perfect taste

Perfect everything

 

I love your sweet smell

It's like wonderful things

Smells like perfect pie

 

You suit best with ice cream

or just cream

Tastes well like that

Looks best like that

Like the shining star.

 

Ode to Water by Madeline

Water

you refresh me

you cool me down

even when I'm not at the relays

held tight in my bottle

never to drip of it's own

accord

unless I dump it out

Recipe of Me by Lucy

1. Mix 5 cups of friends with 1.5 gallons of labradoodles until smooth.

2. Slowly add 1 gallon of soccer.

3. After soccer has been added, stir in 8 cups of climbing trees.

4. Add 5 cups of friends and whisk for a decade.

5. Stick in oven for 2 hours.

Serves 4 people.

Personification by Luke

Carl is a corn chip who was abandoned at a Mexican family reunion, surprisingly in Canada. He then went to work for the C.I.A. Corn chip Intelligence Association, but then discovered it was too intense for a corn chip like him. He then auditioned to be Mary Poppins in a Broadway play. He got booed so badly he forgot what the words good and show meant. When he was 297, he was awarded the oldest corn chip alive. He later went to Vegas and went broke. He went to his old friend Sally Celery. She also went to Vegas and won every slot she played. But she still ended up broke because Carl stole her money. Later he just sat in a hotel for half an hour and then he went into hibernation.

Similes and Metaphors by Cassia

Avocado looks as slimy as a slug. It has a toxic green color. It tastes like cricket guts. It poisons my tastebuds.

Jello is as cool and fruit as a gummy bear.

Why Not Write Wednesdays? Creative Writing Prompts for Kids!

Every Wednesday our creative writing prompt challenges you to pick up your pen and indulge your author self!

Give  yourself one minute to write a list of things you would find in the forest. Write a story featuring everything from your list, but don't set the story in or near a forest. In fact, your story isn't even about a forest...

http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/green-forest-06062011/

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