Summer Themed Narrative Writing Prompt

😎The If I Lived in a Sandcastle “craftivity” is a great way to encourage all writers to have some fun with their writing. Best of all, you’ll end up with a beautiful display to show off your students’ work. 

✍🏽Students write a short narrative piece about what they would do if they were given the chance to live inside a sandcastle. When complete, students will be able to cut out and assemble their very own sandcastle to accompany their work. 

✂️ Give Them the (Safety) Scissors 

This template makes for a bonus cutting skills activity, depending on your students’ ages and abilities. 

With adult supervision, cutting skills help students work multiple muscle groups and their brains, plus:

• Strengthen finger and hand muscles
• Build dexterity and fine motor skills
• Improve hand-eye coordination
• Develop focus and attention

And all of these skills are necessary to use a pencil and a fork; button a shirt and tie shoes; write, type and swipe.

Scissor skills are brain and muscle skills! 

Download & Print — It’s Child’s Play! 

To print your resource, simply click the download button to download the Adobe PDF version of the file. Print a copy of the template for each of your students and you are ready to go! There is no need for extensive preparation.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter collaborator.