20 Adventure Writing Prompts for Kids
- Age
- 7–9, 10–12
- Skills
- story structure · description
Adventure stories are all about a goal, a journey and a problem in the way. These prompts drop your child straight into the action.
How to use this
- Pick one prompt.
- Set a timer and write the opening.
- Use the feedback box to spot a strength.
- The rope bridge is halfway across the ravine — and it's starting to snap.
- You're the youngest member of the expedition, and you've just spotted something the adults missed.
- A message in a bottle washes up. It's dated tomorrow.
- The lift doors open onto a floor that shouldn't exist.
- You're locked in the museum overnight. Then you hear footsteps.
- Your boat's engine has died and the tide is turning.
- A trapdoor opens beneath your feet.
- You find a backpack with everything you'd need to survive a week — and a note that says 'run'.
- The cave entrance seals behind you.
- You're following a trail of clues left by someone who wants to be found.
- The train doesn't stop at your station. It doesn't stop at any station.
- You're the only one who noticed the mountain move.
- A storm strands you on an island that isn't on any map.
- The treasure is real — but so is the trap guarding it.
- You swap places with someone for a day, and their day goes very wrong.
- The last page of the diary is missing, and you have to find out why.
- You're racing to deliver something before sunset. The road just disappeared.
- A hot air balloon drifts down into your garden with no one on board.
- You're handed a ticket to a place that isn't printed on any map.
- The ground begins to shake, and everyone is looking at you to lead the way out.
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