Goal
Spark creativity and storytelling using a visual prompt — a picture is a brilliant way in for children who find starting a story hard.
You'll need
- Summer Colouring
- Reading Prompt Cards
How to do it
Spread out the summer colouring sheet and look at it together. Ask: What's happening here? Who are these people? Where are they going?
Use the reading prompt cards if you need ideas to get started: "What happened just before this picture?" or "What's happening just out of view?" Let them come up with the story — you can prompt, but try not to lead.
Once they've got a story, they can colour the scene to match it while they tell it to you. You can scribe if they want to write it down. Seasonal, open-ended, and genuinely different every time you do it.
Grab our resources
Print our summer colouring and reading prompt cards to get started.
