Art & creativity Writing
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Explore 14 trusted art & creativity writing resources selected for curious kids, with clear ages, access details, and parent context.
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Kidalu
A calm collection of early-learning apps in a playful forest, including activities for reading syllables, writing, colouring, and other foundational literacy practice, with no ads or tracking.
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Meet the Children of the Getty: A Set of 8 Activities
The Getty Museum’s Meet the Children of the Getty activity set uses works of art to help lower-elementary learners make connections across children, places, and time through drawing, writing, observation, and discussion.
Wallace Collection Activity Sheets
A free Wallace Collection activity set uses artworks and objects to invite creative writing, colour exploration, measuring, and storytelling.
Squiggle
Squiggle is an iPad app for ages 3–6 that combines drawing, spelling, tracing, writing, and simple story-building in a calm, offline creative loop.
GloryMind
A community-built story platform where children and families can explore imaginative stories, creative prompts, and shared storytelling experiences.
Poetry4Kids
A free poetry library with funny poems, writing lessons, poetry activities, and performance ideas created for children and teachers.
HeyStori
A creative literacy platform where children turn their spoken ideas into illustrated storybooks, read what they make, and share safe child-authored stories.
Rescue Writing
A creative writing and storytelling toolkit with free videos, templates, writing pages, and storybook-making tools for children, families, and educators.
Vooks Creator
A child-focused story creation tool for writing, illustrating, narrating, and publishing original stories, connected to the Vooks animated storybook ecosystem.
Sharpen Story Maker
A story-making tool for children that combines reading and creative choices, generating short illustrated stories around age- and grade-level prompts.
BBC 500 Words
A children's story-writing project for ages 5-11 with prompts, classroom resources, story inspiration, and annual submissions.
StoryKind
StoryKind is a free children’s literacy podcast hosted by authors Kelly Yang and Kate DiCamillo, with storytelling advice, young-reader questions, author perspectives, and new episodes for kids ages 8 and up.
My Story
A storybook-making app and browser tool for children to write, draw, narrate, and share their own picture books, with story starters, characters, voice recording, and optional printed copies.
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