127+ ‘Box’ Writing Prompts
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Gravity Gone
Imagine waking up one day and discovering that gravity no longer exists – write about your experience.
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Magical Hobby Transformation
Imagine if your favorite hobby was a magical power: what would this power look like and how would you use it?
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Innovative Valentines
Design a picture book that presents unique and creative ways children can show their love on Valentine’s Day.
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Cursed Artifact
Construct a story about inserting a curse that causes chaos into a seemingly ordinary artifact, but offer a surprise ending that isn’t simply lifting the curse.
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Behind the Box of Chocolates
Explore the origins and evolution of giving chocolates as a Valentine’s Day tradition.
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The AI Rebellion
Describe a scenario where Artificial Intelligence machines have successfully rebelled against their human creators.
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Classroom Cupid
Write about a time you played cupid in school to help a friend deliver their Valentine’s message anonymously.
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Behind the Chocolate Hearts
Describe the thrill of receiving a box of Valentines chocolates from a secret admirer.
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Finding Friendship
Turn Emily Dickinson’s ‘The Soul selects her own Society’ into a story about friendship.
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Off-Beaten Prompt Paths
Challenge yourself to create prompts based on abstract concepts or emotions.
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Unanswered Letters
Set in a time before modern technology, your protagonist discovers a box of unopened letters. Write an epistolary story exploring the contents and the impact it has on the protagonist and their world.
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Brainstorming Bubbles
Start with a single word or idea and form a “mind-map” of related topics, characters, or themes. Write about one of these offshoot ideas.
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Escape from Pandora’s Box
Your main character accidentally opens Pandora’s Box, unleashing all kinds of chaos. They have 24 hours to return the evils to the box before they are spread around the world.
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Design a Superhero Headquarters
Write about the design of your superhero headquarters, including its location, secret features, and defenses.
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Haunted Heartbreak
Narrate a story about a love that transcends the human realm, focusing on a romance between a human and a ghost.
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Haunted Melodies
Your protagonist acquires an antique music box, only to find out once it starts, the horrors begin.
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Unseen Angles
Narrate Snow White’s story from the perspective of an unexpected character, like an animal in the forest or one of the hunter’s arrows.
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Green Thumb Diary
Write a note from the perspective of a plant, detail how it feels to grow from a seed to a full-grown plant.
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Rummaging Through The “Crayon Box”
Draw or describe your favorite childhood art piece and recount the inspiration behind it.
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Underwater Civilization
Imagine discovering an advanced underwater civilization. What does it look like and how does it function?
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The Chocolate Confession
Write a story centered around a confession of love hidden inside a Valentine’s Day chocolate box.
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Casting a Spell
Imagine that you have just learned a new magical spell. What is this spell, and how do you use it?
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Cinderella in the Corporate World
Reimagine the popular fairy tale Cinderella, replacing the magical kingdom with the corporate world.
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Love in the Cosmos
Imagine celebrating Valentine’s Day in outer space. How would you express love to someone in zero gravity?
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Ocean Adventure
Imagine you’re an explorer who discovered a new island. What does it look like? What challenges do you face?
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Unique Features of My Family
First graders are encouraged to reflect on what makes their family unique and special.
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Talking with Aliens
Write a poem as if you are communicating with an alien species, expressing the beauty and complexity of human life.
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Living Colors
What if all your crayons came alive and each color had a different personality. What would happen?
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Reflections in the Crayon Box
Detail an artistic activity from your childhood and how it impacted your creativity today.
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Through a Child’s Eyes
Write from the perspective of a child, interpreting their surroundings in unique and innocent ways.
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The Magic Snack Box
What if you discovered a magic box inside your school snack that could give you any food you wished for?
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Mystical Timeout Box
Write about a magical timeout box that can transport anyone to a different time or place instantly.
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Invisible Letters
Imagine finding a box of hidden love letters from different time periods in your attic, and describe how each letter depicts the tale of love therein.
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Building Imaginary Worlds
Design an imaginary world, detailing its geography, inhabitants, culture, rules, and unique features.
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Pandora’s Box
Create a scene where your main character stumbles upon a mysterious box that may or may not contain something horrific.
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The Unusual Superhero
Create an original superhero who doesn’t possess traditional superpowers. Describe their unique abilities.
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The Innocent Informant
Your protagonist is a civilian who happens to overhear a plot of international espionage.
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Pandora’s Box Reopened
Imagine the infamous Pandora’s Box is discovered in the modern world. Write about the consequences.
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Superhero Mishaps
Imagine you become a superhero, but things don’t go as smoothly as they do in the movies.
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Hopping Holiday
What if Christmas was run by kangaroos instead of Santa and his reindeer? How would Christmas night look then?
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Addressing Blockages
Write about how using journal prompts can help overcome writer’s block and stimulate creativity.
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The Story of the Scarecrow
Imagine what a scarecrow might witness during the harvest time and write from its perspective.
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The Invisible Classmate
Write a story about an invisible classmate: how they became invisible and what unfolds at school because of this.
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Scattered Snapshots
Create a story on finding a box of unnamed photographs revealing an intriguing mystery from your past.
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Lost & Found Chronicles
Create a story based on a lost item looking for its owner in the school’s lost and found box.
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Misplaced Identity
Craft a story in which you wake up one day to find you’re no longer human, but a household object.
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Pandora’s Box: The Facebook Account
Imagine opening an old Facebook account you forgot about, and revisiting your past through old posts and messages.
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Mysterious Ancestor Adventure
Imagine you found an old diary or a box of letters from an unknown, distant relative. What secrets lie within?
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Tales from the Toy Chest
Choose a familiar fairy tale and rewrite it from the perspective of an inanimate object.
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Strange Phenomenon
Imagine a strange event occurring in your school—something that is almost too weird to believe—what would it be and how would you react?
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The Invisible Kingdom
Imagine a parallel universe that is invisible to us, but lives alongside our world. Describe a day in this invisible kingdom.
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Destructive Stereotypes
Discuss how gender stereotypes hinder the growth and development of individuals.
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Animal Trial
Generate an argument for an unusual court case: a dog who has destroyed a priceless artefact.
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Phantasmal Island Expedition
You’re an explorer who has discovered a mysterious, uncharted island filled with strange creatures, unfamiliar plants, and secrets.
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Sinister Music Box
Narrate a scenario where a seemingly innocent music box plays spine-chilling tunes each night past midnight.
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Between Two Inanimate Objects
Imagine a conversation between two ordinary, inanimate objects in your house.
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Remembered Melodies
Write about a found music box or a familiar tune, that triggers a wave of memories bringing both comfort and despair.
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A Box of Unusual Chocolites
Describe receiving a box of chocolates where each chocolate has an unexpected flavor.
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Inventive Illustration
Create a detailed description of an imaginary creature or machine that exists in a world different from ours.
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Unexpected Aliens
Imagine coming home from school one day to discover that your family has adopted an alien. Describe this extraterrestrial family member and your new daily routine.
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Chocolate Symphony
Craft a commercial about an extravagant box of chocolates, each with a different story to tell.
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Paws for Thought
Imagine if your pet could talk. Write a conversation and include the hilarious misunderstandings between animals and humans due to their different perspectives.
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Lost and Found
Imagine you discovered a magical object in your school’s lost and found box. Write about what happens when you use it.
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A Magical Misfit
Write a story about a magical creature that accidentally ends up in a human’s Christmas decoration box.
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Box of Chocolates Surprise
Write about a character, who, while planning a surprise Valentine’s Day proposal, surprisingly gets broken up with.
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Create Your Own Wonderland
Based on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”, create your own unique version of Wonderland and describe a journey through it.
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Penguin’s Tropical Odyssey
Write about a penguin’s impromptu journey to a tropical island after accidentally boarding a ship.
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Dream Vacation
Describe your ultimate fantasy vacation, detailing where you would go, what you would do, and why.
