If you've tried the "tell me about your bedroom" writing prompts, chances are, they didn't go as you expected.

This can leave us, as homeschoolers, feeling frustrated with our kids, and also ourselves, since we can't seem to figure our what we should use.

If you're anything like me, you want your kids to love writing, or at least not run away from the table every time you ask them to do it.  

But there's a trick to getting kids to write and have fun.

Chances are, you've even seen it in action.

That's right, it's when they don't even know that they're writing. They're engaged, learning, and having fun. You get the benefit of seeing the joy and concentration on their faces, and being able to witness just how creative your kids really are!

When writing feels like it has a point, kids are much more willing to write.

Kids are onto us when we give them prompts like "describe your bed" or "write a conversation between you and your friend over a lost sock." (I don't know about you, but that's definitely not exciting for me either.)

Typical writing programs teach you grammar and then have you use it to write sentences that are more about copying, and less about using real world writing skills.

And when we let a child imagine themselves running a diner - and we tell them that this can be a diner for aliens or monsters or unicorns - it changes everything. Their creativity in Canva spreads to other things they love (like mushrooms!).