A free story-writing adventure for kids

Creation Station is part of Chapter 3 of the City of Creativity, a free online reading and writing world for children from United By Creativity. In Mr. Austin’s handmade workshop, the Storybook Quilt has three empty patches. Kids give their story a title, design a felt character and give them a name, a trait, a wish and an obstacle, choose where the story begins, and decide what happens first. Then they sew the patches together with golden thread and open the first page of their very own story.

For parents and educators

Children practice the building blocks of narrative writing: title, character, setting and an opening event, plus character traits and motivation and descriptive setting details. They finish by reflecting on what they learned, what they imagined, and what they could change. Questions adjust from pre-K to grade 8, and the activity is available in English, French, Spanish and Luganda. Everything children type or say stays on their own device.