Story Starters for Children

Does your child like to write short stories?

OR

Do you wish your child liked to write short stories? Either way, have some fun with these story starter ideas.

(Use them as a spring board to get your creative juices flowing.)

When I looked outside on that gloomy, rainy day, suddenly the rain changed from water to cats and dogs!

Without warning there was a loud roar shook the ground.

As the twister came closer, we could see cars and cows swirling around and around going up and up. . .

The peaceful morning sun shining on the river made it sparkle like a million diamonds. Ripples slowly started coming across the river.

See what you and your children can come up with. Be sure to share them here. I'll post them in an upcoming post.

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Book of the Week: Frankie, the Walk ‘n Roll Dog Activity Book by Barb Techel

This week’s book follows the picture book “Frankie the Walk ‘n Roll Dog” Barb Techel wrote about her dog Frankie. Back in April I did a review on it. You can read it here.

With her book, Barb took it beyond reading right away by visiting children and spreading Frankie's message of hope. Now she’s come out with this fabulous activity book to go even further beyond reading.

Frankie starts off her book saying "Always be positive and keep on rolling!" There are also several pictures of Frankie at the beginning and end of the book.

Barb has lots of fun activities for children to do and learn more about challenges, dreams and happiness. Fill your young ones time with word searches, story telling, coloring pages and much more.

At the end of the book, Frankie has an Achievement Award for finishing all the activities. Oh, and it has Frankie's paw print too.

Where can you buy these two books?
Joyful Paws

posted by Joy Delgado
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