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41 Best Kids Short Story Ideas
Showing 41 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
You're in charge of creating the new school lunch menu. What kind of menu would you make?
Set your story at a noisy school assembly, where two characters are trying to hold an important and private conversation.
Write a story about time passing from the perspective of a young child who tends to plants every day.
Write a story about an elementary school student who has to overcome their fear of public speaking in order to win a speech contest.
Write a story that evokes the feeling of nails on a chalkboard!
All of your birthday presents this year look normal, except for one sitting in the corner that has a strange yellow glow emitting from it...
Write a story that includes these three words: "clown," "purple," and "apple."
A young child discovers a passion for baking. Write about the crazy kitchen adventures that they embark upon with their allergic-to-gluten family, one that culminates in a national baking competition.
Write a story about understanding differences in cultures through clothing.
You are put in charge of a mission to Mars on NASA's most advanced space shuttle yet. Organize your team.
Write a story about a young character who wants to learn magic.
You wake up one day and find that you can suddenly talk to animals.
You're outside in the park playing Pokemon Go when… wait… is that Pikachu… getting into a fight with your dog…?
You just found a key in your pocket that wasn't there when you last checked.
Some fishy things have been going on at school. Write about a group of friends who establish their own detective agency to get down to the bottom of it, once and for all.
Write a story about a pair of siblings who open up a lemonade stand during summer vacation, and the rivalry that flares up when their neighbors decide to start a Kool-Aid stand at the same time.
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