Writing is not interesting for students! This is a thought shared by many teachers and students as well, but is it true? I think that we should take off all the bad labels that we have put on some activities and look for the ways to make them interesting and desirable. You might say, "Does it mean that writing can be interesting?". My answer is "OF COURSE". I've just found a pair of activities that encourage learners to write by using their creativity. The first activity also makes them use their critical thinking. Here they are:

A Message in a Bottle

In this activity, each student will create an imaginary tale of travel and adventure.

What You Need

• maps of the world, atlases
• plastic bottles with caps (one for each child writing a tale)
• water table, fish tank, or large basin (optional)

What to Do

1. Tell children that each of them is going to write a tale about an imaginary adventure or trip that has left him or her stranded on a desert island. Explain that the only chance for rescue is to write a message, put it in a bottle, and put the bottle in the water, with the hope that someone will find it.
2. Brainstorm with children the kind of information they should include in their tales. For example, they might want to explain who they are, where they were going when they got stranded, where they came from, and how they were travelling. They should also include information about where they are, such as the climate, what the island is like, what plants and animals they have seen, and how they are surviving. Record their suggestions on the board or on chart paper.
3. When children are ready to begin writing, make maps and/or atlases available to them. They can refer to the maps if they need help planning their trips or spelling the names of places they might want to include in their tales.
4. When students have finished, have them place the tales in the bottles and set the bottles afloat in a water table (or whatever container of water you have available).
5. Then have each student fish a bottle (not his or her own) out of the water and read aloud the tale within. After each tale is read, students can “rescue” the author by using maps and story details to find approximately where he or she is stranded.

Teaching Options

• If your class is studying a certain area of the world in social studies, you may want to have the students write about being stranded on desert islands off the coasts of countries within that region.
• You may want to make arrangements to have your tales sent there. Then the students in that class can try to locate the writer of each tale. Your class could do the same with tales from the students in the other class.

Be an Incredible Songwriter!

 

Each student will write a song about something incredible and then perform the song for the class.

What You Need

• Writing paper and pencils
• A pretend microphone (perhaps a chalkboard eraser)
• Small, portable musical instruments of the students’ choice (optional)

What to Do

1. Tell students that you would like them to become songwriters and stage singers for a day. First, have them think of something incredible that they have experienced or know about. This might be an event, a feeling, an idea, a dream, or an amazing animal.
2. Next, ask the students to write the lyrics, or words, to a song about their chosen incredible subjects. Give them the option of writing the words to fit a familiar tune or mentally composing a new tune. Encourage students who have small musical instruments (e.g., flutes, maracas, harmonicas) to plan to play those instruments during their performances.
3. Finally, have students take turns performing their songs for the class. Prompt them to make their singing performances as exciting as possible by including dance steps, arm gestures, and exaggerated facial expressions.


I took these activities from the following link: http://www.teachers-corner.co.uk/creative-writing-with-children-3/