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Fun Writing Activities: Creative Writing Prompts

Roll-a-story grid for creative writing: three rolls of a die pick a character, a setting and a problem, such as a zoo keeper in a dark forest who finds a magic wand.
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Elementary
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Updated Oct 13, 2026

Subject
Creative Arts, ELA, Writing, Creative Writing
Topic
fun writing, fun writing activity
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Use this fun writing prompt style to provide limitless writing prompts for your class. All you need to supply is the dice and print this resource.

Each student will get a copy of the resource and can share the dice (or you can post the resource on the board or at your writing center).

Students will roll the dice THREE times to get a character, problem and setting for their story. You will never have to hear someone complaining they don't have any ideas anymore! This writing prompt strategy gives students the tools they need to start a great story and their imagination will take them from there.

Giving students the main character, plot and setting helps to inspire other ideas. Also, students can use the chart and look at the ideas next to the numbers they did not roll to further spark some imaginative inspiration. The possibilities are endless with this creative writing style.

Once you have exhausted all writing options, have you students create a chart similar to the one provided in this resource.

They can come up with their own sets of characters, plots, and settings for a classmate and see what creative writing they can come up with as a team.

Allow students to write short stories or even comic strips to get them started.

Have fun with these fabulous writing prompts!

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Plan and write an original story around a given character, setting and problem

Teaching tips

  • A standard die is needed and is not included.

Skills covered

  • Story planning — building a plot from three randomly chosen story elements

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