Packing Tips
Step by step instructions | Suitable for 9-13 year olds. Can you create a clear, easy to follow and fool-proof set of packing instructions? Think carefully about your audience and your approach.
Writing prompts
Here are all of Scribblebibble’s writing prompts for you to peruse.
Hard Rain
What is wrong with our world? | Suitable for 12-18 year olds. Can you create your own Lord Randall style call-and-respond ballad to express what you think is wrong with the world you live in?
Telephone Conversation
Things you hope you never hear | Suitable for 13-18 year olds. Explore how words can wound. Can you create a dialogue between two people that takes an unexpected and shocking turn?
The Story of Carl Sagan
Awe and wonder | Suitable for 10-16 year olds. What makes someone interesting? What is it about someone's life story that can inspire others to try new things, work harder, or achieve more?
What Makes A Place?
What makes a place? | Suitable for 14-18 year olds. What makes a place feel like home? What reminds you of home? What reminds you that you’re not in Kansas anymore? Explore writing about familiar and unfamiliar places.
Vegetables
Make the ordinary extraordinary | Suitable for 9-12 year olds. In this video, an ordinary vegetable is made to appear irresistible.
Can you take an everyday food item and write an advert to make your friends’ mouths water?
The Sum of Many Parts
Breaking down a big project | Suitable for 11-18 year olds. Can you clearly explain how a complex project will work, and use your explanation to build confidence and inspire others?
A Tropical Paradise
Landscapes of awe and wonder | Suitable for 7–13-year-olds. This location is incredible both on land and beneath the water. Explore how to carefully build a description that focuses on the senses and emotion.
Northern Norway
Life in the Arctic Circle | Suitable for 9–13-year-olds. What would it be like to visit somewhere completely different and remote? Write a travel article to fill your readers with dreams of rugged landscapes and Nordic charm.
How to write persuasively
I'm going to change your mind! | Suitable for 10-14 year olds. What are you persuaded or influenced by? What techniques are the most persuasive? Can you use your writing to change someone's mind?
Life in 150 seconds
Life, sped up | Suitable for 9-16 year olds. In this video you will see 100 different people, each at a different stage in their life. One of these people is the same age as you. Some are younger and most are older than you. How does this make you feel about your life now?
Letter to your 10 year old self
Putting words to feelings | Suitable for 13–18-year-olds. Explore how to write with sensitivity and emotion to a younger version of yourself. What advice would you give, and why?
Homework: a discussion
Pros and cons | Suitable for 9-13 year olds. Should schools set homework? Homework can help students practise skills and boost grades, but does stop them having fun and drain their energy?
Three Little Pigs
Trial by media | Suitable for 11-18 year olds. Was the Big Bad Wolf unfairly cancelled? Explore fairness, bias and fake news. Can you rewrite a factual news story from a different viewpoint for a different audience?
Secret Narratives
Narrative secrets | Suitable for 13-18 year olds. In this video there’s a secret in this song lyric’s story, but it’s cryptic and unrevealed. Can you build a story around a character’s secret? How do secrets shape characters, situations and narrative plots?
The Life of a Marble
An amazing machine | Suitable for 9-14 year olds. Create a narrative based on the Wintergatan marble machine using description, characterisation and a plot problem.
How to write a book review
How to write a book review | Suitable for 9-14 year olds. Imagine that you've just read an astonishing book. It's moved you, made you think and you can't wait to tell everyone how good it is. How can you persuade your friends, parents or teachers to read this book?
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