Encourage Your Children to Write Their Own Stories

Encouraging children to write their own stories is an excellent way to develop important literacy skills.

To make story writing fun for aspiring authors, eeBoo has created a series of Write Me a Story books that contain 50 pages of wide ruled writing paper and 96 thematic stickers to illustrate your child’s story. The books have a cloth spine and perforated pages, so they make cute keepsakes of your child’s creativity when they are finished.

EeBoo’s Write Me a Story books are recommended for children ages five and up. However, if you wanted to do this activity with a younger child, you could simply write down the story your child tells you and let your child select the stickers or draw pictures to illustrate the tale.

Telling me stories based on the characters in his sticker book was one of my son’s favorite activities as a toddler. He’s nine now, but he still enjoys looking at some of his earlier literary masterpieces and commenting on what he would do differently if he was writing the same story now.

The Write Me a Story books are available on the eeBoo website for $7.99. In addition to the Circus Animals title featured in this post, they also have Mystery in the Forest, Fairytale Mix-up, and Little Robot’s Mission stories.

What do you think of this idea? Does this look like a product your child would enjoy?

Photo credit: eeBoo