Creative Writing
Let your kids take peg dolls or peg people on vacations year. Then have your kids write stories, diary, or journal entries about their adventures together.
Who could resist these smiling faces looking back at you. Can't you hear them saying, " Let's play!"
Why not try peg dolls in a
creative writing center?
Go to a travel agent and pick up several travel brochures. Make sure you have a good variety of places of interest to visit. The brochures have beautiful colorful pictures to spark the interest of young writers. Even if your students can't read all the information on the pamphlets, that's okay. The photographs will increase their creativity.
Place the brochures in your writing center with a good supply of peg dolls.
Make sure the peg dolls have a variety of personalities, both boys and girls. In this way your students will be able to pick a peg doll to resemble themselves as well as a friend or family member.
Let the creativity begin and the writing flow. Students can use a paper and pencil in a writer's notebook or be creative on an Ipad. A pictures or pictures can be added with the peg doll in front of the vacation location.
Tiny peg dolls made from clothes pins are fun and easy to make. They can be a project for elementary school children to make themselves or made by an adult as a small gift for a child. Peg dolls travel so easily because of their diminutive size. Just the right size for small hands. The cost is so reasonable to make.
Peg dolls don't have to be just people. Bunnies can be peg dolls, too. Your students can tell and write stories about all sorts of animals and their adventures.
Why not let each of you students make a peg doll of their own. This way each will definitely have their own personality! Then when they go to your writing center their peg doll friend will be there waiting for them ready to work!
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Enjoy this beautiful day!
Beti
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