3 Fun Creative Writing Exercises for Your April Classroom Writing Center

Hey there Teacher Friends! Let’s zhuzh up your classroom writing center this April with fun creative writing exercises! April is perfect for comics, magnet poetry, and toys! Read on to find some fun new ideas to make your classroom writing center the highlight of your classroom!

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Creative Writing Exercises for April #1: Comic Strip Paper!

Students LOVE comic strip paper. Writing a comic strip is also a great way to introduce students to writing dialog. Comic strip paper is super easy to make. In Powerpoint make a 1×3 or 1×4 table. Adjust the table until the boxes are squares. No fill, and make the borders a bit thicker. Do 2 of these and voila! Comic Strip paper! Check out this super quick video that shows you all the steps in PowerPoint to make your own comic strip paper.

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Creative Writing Exercises for April #2: Add Novelty with Magnetic Poetry

April is poetry month! Magnet poetry is a great way to have your students write some free-verse poems! Adding magnetic poetry to your writing center will bring out the poets in your students. Add some magnet boards (I use metal burner covers for the stove .)

Make your own! Did you know you can print onto *magnet paper? Check out this video:

Don’t want to mess with magnets? You can also do “magnet poetry” digitally, or print a bunch of words for students to glue onto paper!

I have the magnetic poetry you see in the video above in my free resource library! You can print this yourself onto magnet paper or regular paper and let your students create poems by gluing the words and pictures onto another sheet of paper! You can get this freebie by signing up for my Free Teacher Newsletter! When you sign up, you can access my free resource library with TONS of great freebies!

Creative Writing Exercises for April #3: A Toy Story

Everyone loves toys! Let’s use some toys to make our classroom writing center irresistible! Use small containers (such as the heart containers from the February Writing Center Refresh) or the fillable Easter Eggs that are everywhere this time of year.

In the container add a small toy or two and a stamper. Students will open the container, and use the items inside to write about! They can stamp their paper with the stamper, and then write about the toys.

I also found these really *fun eggs on Amazon. They have “Lego” pieces inside to build an item. The students could open it, build the item inside, and describe the toy that they created, or, write how-to instructions on how to build it.

Beanie Babies and Action Figures also make super fun toys to add to your classroom writing center! Students can write descriptions, use them as inspiration for characters, or “act out” the action of the story to help them better write their toy stories!

Let’s update your classroom writing center this April with this fun April Writing Center Refresh Pack!

I hope you found some fun new ideas for your classroom writing center! Thanks so much for stopping by and taking the time to read my post! Pin the image below to save these fun ideas for your writing center!

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Happy Teaching,