WELCOME!!! PARENTS! TEACHERS! KIDS!
I’m so glad you stopped by.
#50PreciousWordsforKids is a fabulous opportunity to encourage the natural storyteller that lives inside each one of us.
For the past few years, every May, during Children’s Book Week, I’ve hosted a writing challenge for kids. We’ve had entries from Canada, Singapore, Australia, Austria, France, and just about every state across the USA. And every Mother’s Day, I post the stories.
But now I want to invite kids to participate ALL YEAR LONG! That’s right! If you have a story you’d like to share with me, I’d love to read it! And if your parents and/or teachers give permission, I might be able to share it on my blog during the course of the year.

Every child who participates receives a Certificate of Participation. The only rules are:
1. The story has 50 words or less. (Title does not add to the word count)
2. The story has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
3. Parents or teachers email the story to me: viviankirkfield@gmail.com.
4. The story needs to be pasted into the email or attached as a Word doc.

So, my young friends! SHARPEN YOUR PENCILS! And send me your stories!
I can’t wait to read your precious words!

Here are a few stories other children have sent me – as you can see, some of them like to add illustrations – and that’s totally fine:

WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO TELL: WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT

Sometimes we look at a blank piece of paper and we wonder – what will we write about?
1. Look around you. You can write about your family, your friends, your neighborhood, your pets (or the pets you wish you had).
2. Think about places you’d like to go or things you’d like to do – write about doing them…or write about not doing them.
3. Write about people you admire – heroes and heroines in books or movies or in real life. Or, if you were a superhero, what would your super power be?
4. Write about your favorite holiday or your least favorite holiday.
5. Write about a time when you were really scared.
6. Write about something you would invent to make the world a better place – what would it be and how would you create it?

Here’s another fun activity. All you need are paper and crayons or markers.

1. Make your own story book…all you need are paper and crayons.

a. Have mom or dad help you fold the several papers in half.

b. They can use a stapler to keep the papers from falling out.

c. Decide what your story will be about.

d. Draw a picture on the front cover and write the title (the name of your book) there also.

e. Open the book to the first page and start your story!

f. Ask mom or dad to take a picture of your book and ask them to write a comment on this page. If they send me the picture, I will post it here!

g. Have fun!!! Illustrators are the people who draw the pictures in a picture book. Authors are the people who write the words in a picture book. When you have finished your book, you will be the author and the illustrator.