A Rainy Day Adventure - Writing Prompt

Students invent an adventure for a rainy spring day, write about it and draw a matching scene.
Grades
Pre-K–2, Elementary
Pages
3
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Apr 14, 2025

Subject
ELA, Creative Arts, Creative Writing, Writing, Art
Topic
Writing, Writing prompts
Resource types
Writing Prompts, Worksheets & Printables, Activities
Preparation
Print ready
Standards
W.1.3

Product description

From the author

Rainy days: some see gloom, others see puddle-jumping, worm-spotting, and soggy sock adventures. A Rainy Day Adventure is a fun and creative spring writing prompt that turns gray skies into bright ideas! This resource includes two parts, a writing section where students craft their own rainy day tale, and a drawing section to bring it all to life (umbrellas, rubber boots, and heroic raincoats encouraged).

In the writing portion, students dive into a drizzly day of their own imagining. Maybe they get swept into a magical storm, find a talking frog with a weather app, or become puddle pirates on the playground. Whatever the plot, creativity pours down like rain. In the drawing section, they illustrate their scene, raindrops, rainbows, or whatever their soggy hearts desire.

Ways to Use It:

  • Spring writing centers

  • Fun Friday writing and art activity

  • Sub plans with no stress

  • Classroom displays for those cozy, rainy-day vibes

Why Teachers Love It:

  • Encourages creative storytelling and artistic expression

  • No prep, just print and go

  • Engages reluctant writers with fun, relatable prompts

  • Great for cross-curricular writing and art lessons

Because even on the rainiest day, your students' imaginations can shine.

The PDF includes two activity pages and one terms-of-use page, for three pages in total.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Generate an original written response to an open-ended personal narrative prompt.

  • Illustrate a written idea with a drawing that reflects the same imagined scenario.

Teaching tips

  • Have students complete the writing page first, then move to the drawing page so their illustration reflects the adventure they already described.

  • Use the two pages as quick warm-up or sub-plan material, since each page needs nothing beyond something to write and draw with.

  • Open with a short class discussion about real rainy-day experiences before writing to help reluctant writers get started.

Skills covered

  • Personal narrative writing -- students respond in their own words to an open-ended 'what would you do' prompt.

  • Visual storytelling -- students translate their written idea into an illustrated scene on the companion page.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How do the two activity pages connect?

One asks what students would do on a rainy spring day; the other asks them to draw their rainy-day adventure. Both responses can describe the same imagined event.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • W.1.3

Core concepts

  • Creative writing prompt

  • Spring theme

  • Writing-and-drawing pairing

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