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41 Best Kids Short Story Ideas
Showing 41 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
Write a story about time passing from the perspective of a young child who tends to plants every day.
You meet someone who's different from you. Write a story about how you become friends.
It's show and tell day! Write a story about what you most want to bring to show to your class.
Write a story centered on the theme of persistence when it comes to exams.
You just found a key in your pocket that wasn't there when you last checked.
Write a story about a character who can only tell the truth.
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.
Write a story about the small kindnesses that you see every day.
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 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.
You are a secret agent. Your mission? To steal the cookie jar back from your older sister.
You've just made the discovery of secret playground deep in the woods... and only you know of its existence.
Write a story about trust. Include a pair of siblings in it.
Write a story about a character who can only tell lies.
Write a story that evokes the feeling of nails on a chalkboard!
Write a story about the friendship between two different species of animals.
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