Kids love all things birthday. These easy art accents motivate writers and reward them for the work! In addition, they add color and charm to each child’s story.
Writing Prompts
These art accents can be used for ANY story about a birthday. We used these art accents to go along with the following writing prompts:
Birthday Party-Personal Narrative
Bordered Paper
The campers wrote on lined paper with a border. Here’s a printout of the lined paper I use for Grades 2-7 and Grades K-2. For very early writers, we use bordered paper without lines.
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Here’s the list of ideas! You can use one or combine some!
- Use stationary paper.
2. Use markers to draw in balloons, a cake, candles, streamers, etc. around the border.
Here’s one student’s border after writing a Birthday Bash-Science Fiction Story
3. Use stickers* to fill the border and/or ABC stickers* to write the title.
Here’s a sample to print and use.
4. Bring a cake! I brought in pies last summer when I taught this lesson at our summer Personal Narrative Camp:
I brought cupcakes to an after school writing class.
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