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41 Best Kids Short Story Ideas
Showing 41 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Write a story that evokes the feeling of nails on a chalkboard!
Write a story that takes place over the span of the longest Monopoly game ever.
You wake up one day and find that you can suddenly talk to animals.
It's your birthday! Write a story about the ideal birthday that you'd spend with your family, your friends, or yourself.
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 the friendship between two different species of animals.
You've just made the discovery of secret playground deep in the woods... and only you know of its existence.
Write a story centered on the theme of persistence when it comes to exams.
Write a story about time passing from the perspective of a young child who tends to plants every day.
You just found a key in your pocket that wasn't there when you last checked.
Write a story about friendship that uses holiday traditions from different cultures.
Write a story about a character who can only tell lies.
Write a story about a young girl with a passion for science who invents a time machine and travels to the future, where she must save the world from an imminent catastrophe that only she knows about.
After the brief pause that follows your mother's angry question of "Who did this?", all of you look at the cat.
Describe your weekend using only dialogue to write the story.
You meet someone who's different from you. Write a story about how you become friends.
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