Step 1. Get an idea. Books are a good starting point or childhood memories or just something funny that you or the child remembers.

2. Develop a character and put the character in a situation or set the scene.

3. Begin with a bang or something funny that hooks in the reader or audience.

4. Decide on the conflict. What must be overcome or achieved for the story to have meaning?

5. Arrive at a fork in the road, a disaster, something that must be overcome to turn the tide.

6. How is that problem resolved? Always a good, positive, learning experience for children’s books.

7. A happy ending! Come on! This is a kids’ book!! Happy, warming satisfaction out of hardship and learning.

Step 1. Be happy, enthusiastic and engaging.

2. Perhaps make use a writing ideas generator.

3. Go for things that are fun that the child actually likes.

4. Create fun, extreme, larger than life characters to draw and engage with.

5. Create a plot for your story.

6. Journey with the characters through the plot.

7. Expand on the plot to develop the situations that the characters find themselves in.

8. Aim for a happy ending and build towards a positive change and/or learning experience.

You could use a writing ideas generator to create funny kids drawing and writing prompts.

Good topics are:

*Animals

*Fantasy animals

*Adventures

*Gooey, smelly, icky, sticky funny stuff

*Always try to improve their writing skills and vocabulary

*Positive change, a lesson learned and a happy ending.

For me, fun writing is full of over the top enthusiasm and funny stuff.

1. I find and use ideas I know that the children resonate with.

2. I select striking characters and give them funny or mean elements.

3. I pick common animals and explain fantasy beasts so the children can draw them.

4. We then put the characters and animals into funny situations and go on an adventure.

5. I always try and incorporate a learning experience and/or a positive change.

6. The End = A happy ending!

Writing prompts are creative writing ideas for children.

Some examples include:

Use a funny comment from memory and build your story around it.

Write a story that creates a big adventure.

Give the characters a little depth with striking descriptions, jobs, and equipment that children can draw such as:

What is the best job in the world, the funniest or the worst job in the world?

Their dream product or place and what it might contain such as:

*Their dream plane

*Their dream flying object

*Their dream house

*Their dream car

*Their dream boat

Step 1: Adapt your approach to the age group concerned.

2. Childhood memories or funny comments can spark a story.

3. Use an everyday item or situation and make it funny and fictional.

4. Give the story a plot or theme or main idea.

5. The main character must be clear.

6. The main character should have some clear habits or traits.

7. Set the introductory scene, paint a picture of it with words.

8. Thrust the main character into the story in such a way that it hooks the reader or audience. They call this the inciting incident.

Step 1. Try using a writing ideas generator to find writing and drawing prompts for children.

2. Find fun things that the child likes and get creative with them.

3. Create characters to illustrate and engage with. Good topics include: animals, fantasy animals, funniest, best and worst people, gooey, icky, smelly, sticky, funny stuff.

4. Try to develop a game, story plot, journey or adventure.

5. Try to become or get into the head of the characters and take a journey through the plot or adventure.

6. Expand and explore the plot situations that the characters could find themselves in.

7. Build on and stretch the children’s drawing, writing skills and vocabulary.

8. A happy ending is a must, even better with a learning experience and positive change.

Story idea generators ask questions to make suggestions to help writers create story, plot and character ideas.

There are lots of these on the internet – just Google “children’s story ideas generator?” to start a writing ideas generator.