Our creative writing ideas for the Christmas season
Christmas folding stories
This joint story writing can lead to surprising twists in the plot: The first writer writes the opening sentence of a Christmas story on a sheet of paper and passes it on to the next writer. The next writer reads the sentence, folds the sheet so that the first sentence is no longer visible, writes a continuation sentence and passes the sheet on.
Secret Santa
In this Secret Santa variant, instead of gifts, dear messages or good wishes are exchanged: each participant draws the name of another family member (younger family members draw with a «co-Gnome») and presents them with a letter they have designed themselves. To make it more exciting, the messages can be «hidden» somewhere every day for a week (in a dental glass, between the pages of a book, etc.). On Christmas Eve, the secret Santa is revealed.
Sweet greetings
This turns Christmas, New Year or thank-you greetings into a very personal surprise: together with the children, think up a little message for your godfather, grandparent or uncle (e.g. a wish for the New Year, «THANK YOU» ...) and shape the matching letters out of cookie dough or cut them out with letter cutters. A note on the accompanying card can be sent along with the «letter biscuit puzzle» («We wish you ... for the New Year!»).
Cooperative writing
When you write a text together, there is not only a lot to write, but also a lot to discuss and negotiate: How do we proceed? What absolutely belongs in the text, what can we leave out? How could we formulate it better? As a team, the writers come up with new ideas and develop their own strategies for writing texts. Cooperative writing" is therefore used as an effective method to promote writing skills.
