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Writing Activity: take a character on a believable journey from zero to hero

Post Published April 24, 2021 by Jane Levi

'Tom Green,' a story by 10-year-old Zahra Batteh, is a classic redemption tale. Tom Green, a horrible, spoiled, lazy young man loses all his money and privilege, and through a series of misfortunes a...
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Art Activity: Telling a Story with Multiple Perspectives in a Single Image

Post Published January 9, 2021 by Jane Levi

Emi Le's artwork, "Invisible to Human," is one of those deceptively simple pieces of art that reveals more, and poses more questions, the longer you look at it.
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Daily Creativity #35: Incorporate Observations into Art or a Poem

Post Published May 8, 2020 by Anya Geist

Write 5 phrases about things you see around you (e.g. “a bird chirping in a tree”) and use them in a poem, or turn them into a piece of art.
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Writing Activity: Using Framing to Add Depth and Power

Post Published October 18, 2019 by William Rubel

Emma McKinny's story "Windsong," is about going to a performance of Dr. Atomic, an opera by John Adams with libretto by Peter Sellers. Her father is the lead singer.
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Writing Activity: challenging prejudice and developing empathy through storytelling

Post Published August 23, 2019 by William Rubel

The story by 11-year-old Nate Sheehan, "Conrad and Fate" is about prejudice based on a student's ethnicity. This story, set in the late 1950s is about prejudice against Japanese people, something that...
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Writing Activity: inspiration from science-based common expressions

Post Published June 19, 2019 by Stone Soup Editors

There are a lot of science-based ideas expressed in everyday speech. This activity challenges you to identify some of those expressions, think about what they mean, research them to find out the scien...
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Writing Activity: Using the power of “show, don’t tell”

Post Published May 25, 2019 by Jane Levi

Writers often hear the advice: “show, don’t tell.” But what does it mean? Read and study a story from the Stone Soup archives to see the power of this technique, and then try it for yourself.
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Writing Activity: working with dialogue

Post Published October 4, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

This activity is built around a story by 11-year-old Lena Boesser-Koschmann, first published in the November/December 1992 issue of Stone Soup, and more recently in the Stone Soup Book of Animal Stori...
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Juvenilia: an introduction via Jane Austen, the Brontës and others

Post Published September 28, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

Juvenilia is the name given to creative work produced by recognized authors and artists when they were children and young adults. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was a fruitful time f...
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Documenting history in children’s art: Egypt in the late 1970s

Post Published September 24, 2018 by Stone Soup Editors

We at the Children's Art Foundation were very lucky to be given these extraordinary felt pen drawings by the Egyptian government in the late 1970s. Besides being unusually strong works of children's a...
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