FREE Printable Winter Story Starters and Writing Prompts

Providing seasonal writing prompts for children helps them get more excited about writing! These super cute, free printable, winter story starters have images to color and a word bank to help pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students work on writing skills.  These winter writing prompts kindergarten are perfect for helping your young writers get their creative juices flowing. Simply print winter writing prompts pdf file and you are ready to play and learn!

Winter story starters

Seasonal writing prompts are a great way to incorporate seasons and holidays into your everyday writing. They are sure to get your kids’ creative juices flowing! These winter writing prompts are sure to be a hit with your young writers. They’re perfect for older preschoolers, kindergarteners, and young grade 1 students. The no-prep winter story starters are easy to add to your writing time during December, January, and February. Just print and go!

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love these writing prompts for winter. Use them as extra practice, over Christmas break, literacy center in your classroom, or supplement to your homeschool writing curriculum. You can take a peak at all our FREE creative writing prompts for elementary age kids!

Winter Writing Prompts Kindergarten

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The winter writing prompts for kindergarten pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Print out each of the writing prompts (pages 3- 9). I suggest printing page 10 on the back of each of those pages. This allows more seasoned writers more space to continue their story on the backside.

Winter writing prompts for kindergarten

Instead of story starters, these writing pages include a picture prompt. Children can colour these pictures to match their stories if they’d like. we suggest using crayons, colored pencils, or markers to color the pictures to personalize them.

Each page includes a word bank. The word bank includes words that go along with each picture. Children shouldn’t be required to use each word. They are included for inspiration and for spelling help.

Kindergarten winter writing prompts

At the end of this pack, there is a page of word cards. This page can be cut into individual word cards or left whole. Children can use these cards for additional word inspiration or spelling practice as they write their stories. These are handy to use as winter break writing prompts.

• Snowman Clipart with word bank: snowman, hat, carrot, twigs, button, cold
• Snowing Clipart with word bank: snow, cloud, flakes, snowflakes, winter
• Groundhog Clipart with word bank: ground hog, spring, winter, shadow
• Hearts Clipart with word bank: Valentine, heart, love, candy, flowers, friend
• Hot Cocoa Clipart with word bank: hot chocolate, winter, cold, marshmallows, cocoa, drink
• Tree with Snow Clipart with word bank: winter, bare, tree, leaves, snow, frozen
• Boy ice skating Clipart with word bank: winter, cold, rink, skates, skating, ice
• Blank writing paper with ruled lined
• Word Cards: hat, mittens, scarf, sled, boots, hockey, skiing, shovel, cocoa, January, February, jacket, coat, icicles, gloves, and frost.