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Daily Creativity #101 | Flash Contest: Write a Poem about a Song

Post Published August 10, 2020 by Sarah Ainsworth

What song have you had on repeat lately? Write a poem that incorporates the song.
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Daily Creativity #96 | Flash Contest: Write a Backwards Story

Post Published August 3, 2020 by Sarah Ainsworth

Write a story backwards. In other words, start with the conclusion, then explain what happened that led up to the action or event.
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Daily Creativity #42: Write a Story Inspired by a House

Post Published May 19, 2020 by Sarah Ainsworth

Take a look at these photographs of houses from the Library of Congress. Choose one house that speaks to you and write a short story or play that takes place there.
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Daily Creativity #10: Create an Art Piece of One of Your Happiest Moments

Post Published April 3, 2020 by Sarah Ainsworth

Create a visual representation of one of your happiest moments. You could re-stage it for a photograph, paint it with watercolors, or use any other medium that you can come up with.
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Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “No Longer Blue,” by Olivia Park, 12

Post Published August 23, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

https://soundcloud.com/user-28081890/no-longer-blue/s-3Ks0r I walked back and forth in my room, looking out at skies that were no longer blue. The television droned on.
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Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “The Dreamer,” by Claire Nagle, 12

Post Published August 22, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

Today we showered. We always all shower with our cold water, on the first Sunday of the month. This Sunday is particularly special though, because it is also the first day of 2186, which means we w...
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Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “A Splash of Water,” by Tara Prakash, 12

Post Published August 21, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

I had never liked the ocean, and that was before I fell off the boat and into it, headfirst. My dad and I were on one of his boating trips. He was a scientist on climate change, and every few months, ...
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Climate Change stories from our 2019 Podcast Contest: “Back in the Days” by Gemma Yin, 11

Post Published August 20, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

The sky was smashing and attractive. It was the hue of tomatoes, marmalade and freshly picked lemons. Cumulus clouds were slowly drifting by and the sun was just about to go hiding behind the endless ...
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Author Interview: Alexis Fajardo, author of Kid Beowulf, talks to blogger Mirembe

Post Published April 10, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

Mirembe Mubanda, one of our young bloggers, recently got the chance to read Alexis E. Fajardo's graphic novel Kid Beowulf: The Rise of El Cid, and then talk to the author about his inspirations, his p...
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Space Battle: A Video by Christian Goh

Post Published February 11, 2019 by Sarah Ainsworth

https://youtu.be/nsu9NcDT27U
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Guest Post: Writing Your Feelings and “My Grandma’s Angels” by Sam Rozal

Post Published August 25, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

When I think about my grandparents, my head is flooded with vivid memories of them. I hear my grandpa’s deep laughter ringing in my ears as he tells me a story about camping.
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Writing Activity: personifying objects in poetry

Post Published August 17, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

This writing activity by Allison Finley is based on the poem “A Fraction of an Inch” by Abigail Rose Cargo, 13, published in Stone Soup, March/April 2017 Seeing Fractions of an Inch Everywhere ...
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Lullaby for a Badger, by Ula Pomian, 12

Post Published August 10, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

"I like writing sad stuff, and one day I just sat at the piano and started fooling arond with some chords, and this came out. I just like badgers, hence the quirky title." https://soundcloud.
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Art Activity: imagining, planning and drawing complex imaginary worlds

Post Published August 9, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

This art activity by Olivia Joyce is built around 8-year-old Li Lingfei's Artist's Portfolio, published in Stone Soup’s March 2018 issue. Use the link to open the portfolio in a separate window and ...
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Little Stories

Post Published July 31, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

A set of drawings by Annalise Braddock, age 7 - with a link to audio where she talks about the origin of her 'Little Stories'.
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Special Feature: Kids React to Gun Violence

Post Published May 18, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

Sometimes at Stone Soup we receive several submissions that have to do with the same topic. Over the past weeks, we've received several related to gun violence, most notably school shootings and polic...
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Autism by Joao Fernandes

Post Published May 2, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

We know that these pictures can be hard to read, so we're including a transcript of the book below: Cover: Autism Illustrated by Lilly Marzec Page 1: Autism by João Fernandes Some may act d...
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BizTown Money

Post Published April 30, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

Review by Megan Li, age 10 Ever thought how it would feel as a kid to sell, manage, and earn money? Well, with BizTown, you can! Yeah, I know, this sounds like one of those commercials we all...
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Point of View by Madeleine Higgins

Post Published April 24, 2018 by Sarah Ainsworth

My home, my street, my neighborhood, New York City, the USA, the Earth, our solarsystem, the Milky Way Galaxy, the universe. In my life, in my point of view, everything circles around me, or so it se...
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