Use our Super Easy Storytelling Formula and these story prompts to start telling a story instantly. Choose a story element from each story prompt column (choose a Who, a What, a Why Not) and then drop them into our storytelling formula. Need help? Go to our storytelling how to guide.
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Story Prompt Formula
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Story Prompt Ideas
Choose one item from each column. WHO wants a WHAT but WHY NOT = A Fun story.
Animal
- Hippo
- Puppy
- Dinosaur
- Penguin
Insect
- Ladybug
- Goliath Beetle
- Butterfly
Vehicle
- Sports Car
- Hot Air Balloon
- Dump Truck
- Motorcycle
- Dune Buggy
Occupation
- Astronaut
- PE Teacher
- Scientist
- Pirate
Fantasy Creature
- Wizard
- Monster
- Fairy
- Zombie
Courtly Person
- Knight
- Princess
- King
- Noble Steed
Object/Thing
- Blob of Goo
- Tea Pot
- Bubble
- Super Hero’s Cape
- Robot
Toy
- Chess Piece
- Doll
- Remote Control Car
- Box of Crayons
Person
- Super Stink Boy
- Grandpa
- Baby Genius
- Viking
Food
- Marshmallow
- Tater Tot
- Meatball
- Deep-fried Candy Bar
Plant
- Sunflower
- Meat-eating Plant
- Creeping Vine
- Get what He/She has Always Wanted
- Become a Dancer
- Invent Something
- Ride a Roller Coaster
- Travel to a New Planet
- Be Bigger or Smaller
- Make a Friend
- Bend Air and Water
- Ride a Camel
- Build a Catapult
- Rule the World
- Win a Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest
- Build a New Home
- Make Disco Clothes Fashionable Again
- Become a Voice Impersonator
- Tame a Tazmanian Devil
- Save the World
- Journey to the Amazon
- Enjoy a Very Lazy Day
- Bake a Cake
- Overcome a Fear of Something
- Rescue a Stranded Kitten
- Become a Master Chef
- Be the Most Amazing of Its Kind
- Win a Race
- Change from a Bad Guy into a Good Guy
- Has an Attack of the Hiccups
- Doesn’t Know How
- Evil Nemesis Has Other Plans
- Doesn’t Have the Right Clothes/Gear
- Is Very Clumsy
- Is Allergic to Fun
- Gets Distracted by a Dance Party
- Can’t Find What He’s Looking For
- Forest Comes to Life
- Gets Trapped in a Tower
- Pit of Slime In the Way
- Minions Quit
- Gravity Just Became Super Strong
- Is Scared
- Giant Ladybug
- Space Junk Crashes to Earth
- Runaway Train
- Epic Water Gun Battle
- Grumpy Alligator
- Magic Wand is Broken
- Can’t Get any Respect
- Sucked into a Magical Vortex
- Internet is Unavailable
- Burns in the Sun
- Plans Never Work Out Right
- Car/Boat/Spaceship is Brokenv
Sample Story Prompts
Here are some examples of how you can put the story elements above together into some fun story prompts.
- A tater tot wants to save the world but she burns in the sun.
- A man-eating plant wants to grow bigger but his minions just quit.
- A box of crayons wants a very lazy day but they are sucked into a magical vortex.
- A deep-fried candy bar wants to be a master chef but he just can’t get any respect.
- A viking wants to win a watermelon seed spitting contest but she’s allergic to fun.
- A fairy wants to overcome her fear of flying but the forest just came to life.
- A ladybug wants to make disco clothes fashionable again but she has an attack of the hiccups.
- An astronaut wants to rescue a kitten from a tree but gravity just became super strong.
