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41 Best Kids Short Story Ideas
Showing 41 short story ideas curated by Reedsy.
It's your birthday! Write a story about the ideal birthday that you'd spend with your family, your friends, or yourself.
Set your story at the playground!
Write a story centered on the theme of persistence when it comes to exams.
Write a story about a character who doesn't know how to share.
It's show and tell day! Write a story about what you most want to bring to show to your class.
Set your story at a noisy school assembly, where two characters are trying to hold an important and private conversation.
A superhero comes and rescues your class from certain doom. Which superhero just swooped in to save the day? Write a story about how you set out to make friends with them next.
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 someone trying to hide a pet from their parents.
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