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There are two kinds of people in the world—those who love winter and those who don’t. Wherever you identify yourself, you have to admit that there is a temptation during this season to grab a cozy blanket, make yourself a mug of hot cocoa, and just slow down. However, you shouldn’t forget your writing projects during this time of the year—they won’t finish themselves!

Beat the winter blues and keep yourself inspired with writing prompts. Below, you’ll find a series of prompts about winter. Choose some and turn them into a short story, poem, play, or essay.

Write about your experience of creating memories with friends.
A boy lives in an abandoned playground. What happens the night he disappears?
A reindeer pulls a sleigh into town.
Write about this winter and how it makes you feel.
Write a story about a flight crash in which eight kids and a dog survive. How do they survive?
Write about someone who was caught by a snowflake.
Have you ever been in a car stuck in the snow?
A scientist invents a device that can bring anything back to life, but only has enough power for one more use. What does he bring back to life? What happens? How was it for everyone to see a frozen plant coming back to life?
What if your town had almost no snow in the winter?
Cold drafts begin to appear.
Write about yourself or a friend
Write about a snowball fight.
Write a story about your favorite season.
City residents are stuck inside for the winter.
Write from the point of view of a snowflake
Someone you love turns into a snowman.
Write a poem that includes the four seasons.
An abandoned pair of lost gloves in a snowstorm can connect to an enigmatic life.
Five kids bring home a magical doll that grants their wishes.
Write about the darkest day of the year.
Write about someone trying to keep warm in the winter time.
Write about two polar bears meeting for the first time.
Write about what someone might do if life slowed down
Snowmen suddenly come to life.
Write about your life in reverse
What happens when you bring roses and chocolates into a room full of snowmen?
Write about sled dogs.
Write from the point of view of the wind.
Moments between blobs of snow.
Write about the struggle of trying to grow up and find yourself when the entire world is telling you who you should be.
You find a strange object in a snow drift.
Write to the elements for them to stop the snow
You decide to go ice skating for the first time in your life.
Write about an environment that needs snow to survive.
Write about a hamster that has totally gone nuts because of the cold weather.
Cold weather makes your walk make eerie sounds.
Write about isolation in the wintertime.
Living in Alaska is hard.
Write about a day in your life before social media
Write about a day at the beach.
A bunch of monkeys see a snowball pop out of a spout and begin throwing snowballs at one another.
What’s the one thing that you enjoy most about winter?
A tree made of gold falling from the sky.
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A night in a snow cave with artwork depicting winter scenes carved in a cave that the character is lost in.
You see the face of an old friend in the snow.
Write about or draw a snowman.
The wind tries to push the characters around their city.
Write about Christmas and New Years Eve in an alpine village
A snowball fight starts between the nymphs of the clouds and the gremlins of the wind.
Is it really Christmas when it’s snowing outside on Christmas eve?
It’s hot chocolate weather!
A teacher picks your pockets during an ice skating lesson.
What kind of work keeps you busy on a winter day?
A stranger jumps into your car, and you never see him/her again.
The librarian is a snowman.
Write from the perspective of a snowball.
A war is being fought, but now it is snowing far below the trenches.
What do you do during the winter when you are not at school?
A character is walking in the winter woods.
Write about your character’s deepest fears.
Someone is trapped inside their home and can’t escape because it is too cold outside.
While sledding, he/she falls and hurts their body.
You’re trapped in a winter vortex and you can’t get out.
You have to use an unusual item as a weapon.
The police haven’t reported for three days. What is happening?
Write a 6 sentence story. Every sentence must end with the word snow
Write a letter to a stranger.
All of your possessions in summer are forced to hibernate for the winter. Is this possible? Can they be awoken in time?
Snowball fights are banned again.
Write about building a snowman.
Write about what your family gets up to on Christmas
What creature would best describe your nature?
The sun and the moon have switched places.
Write an entry in the snowman’s diary
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Your town reminds him of someone he once knew.
An angel is out in the cold. The angel is unaware it is winter.
It’s Christmas Eve but there’s no snow falling…
Write about a garage sale.
Write about a snowman that is a spy working for an evil alien overlord named Tantrum
A snowblast comes within inches of your window.
I stare up, into the bright sky filled with white.
Write about a storm approaching.
Write a fairy tale about a miller who is so stingy that he turns into a…
The first snowfall of winter–what will you do?
A decrepit sleigh in front of the house.
Sleigh bells ring into the night.
Pick any weekday and tell what it would be like in the morning for a week.
It’s several days before Christmas and you haven’t even started shopping yet. What do you do?
Write about the only time a red nose world be good
Write about your ideal winter vacation.
A mother in distress calls 911 and asks for help.
Make up a new song about winter.
Write about a snowman who has a pet.
A character crashes into the Arctic Circle.
Global warming causes the oceans to rise and the polar ice caps to melt.
Write about the sounds of winter.
A meteor falls from the sky in the middle of the mountains.
Describe the first time you see a running snowman.
A group of small children travel through a winter wonderland on a quest to repair a damaged community.
A winter home
What would you look like as an ice sculpture?
How would you survive being lost in a snowstorm?
A trip to a local bakery with your family.
Imagine the home of the tooth fairy is taken over by snowmen…
You wander far enough a mysterious labyrinth
Write about a secluded cabin in the woods
A giant snowball begins to attack people.
Write about what you would do if you found two free tickets to a Tahoe winter carnival.
Write a small narrative about someone waiting in a long line.
Write about a character that works at a ski resort.
Write a story about a vulnerable snow person
A child transports themselves into a different world when they go outside into the hardest winters ever known.
Your Wi-Fi goes out.
Write about an island you’ve never visited before.
What does it feel like to look out the upstairs window at your neighborhood and not be able to see where your house begins and the other homes end?
Write about the birth and growing up of a monster like Jack Frost.
A war is raging across the universe. What role does winter play in the story?
Write about what your life would be like if spring was not a regular part of the cycle of seasons.
A polar bear stands outside a house on a frozen lake.
Are you ready for the first snowfall!?
Water freezes, forming snowflakes.
Write a story from the perspective of a snowman.
Write the first chapter of a mystery novel.
Write about your first time playing in the snow
Write about an experience at shoveling snow.
Write a conversation between a snowball and a burnt cookie. Write, paint or draw your favorite winter symbol. Write a sentence-or-two about what you know about leprechauns. Write about an unexpected visitor to your home. Write about a day where you smell at least five hundred things. Write about what you imagine a Rainbow really feels like.
Someone is dressed like Santa Claus.
How would you survive the coming winter?
How would you protect yourself from an ice dragon?
Travel to a land filled with snow.
Hands push someone out of this world.
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Write a story about an Eskimo family.
Write a poem about the first snowfall of the year.
Sledding fails.
Write about your greatest winter fear.
Write a light poetic story about the Winter Solstice.
Family crisis issues
Write about the first time you got mailed anonymously attractive Valentines.
Write a Christmas story with a twist.
Write about a town that is suddenly unearthed after hundreds of years buried in snow.
Write a poem to your best friend.
“Go out and try. Risk it all. The worst that can happen is you fall on your face.” W.C. Fields wrote these words. Today you are getting ready for your final race. For four years you have trained for this moment. It is the weekend of the state competition and this…
Write about what your life is like on Mars.
A snowman falls in love with an umbrella and thinks they are perfect for each other.
“12 Days of Christmas” goes into effect until the next holiday season.
Two friends are trapped in a strange realm.
Write a letter to Santa
Write about the day you spent shopping for the best Christmas gifts
The lawn gets an unexpected makeover
It’s vacation time in the winter.
Someone trapped in the snow.
Write about the first time someone forced you to go to an activity without a coat, gloves, hat or scarf.
A snow day and you’re stuck at work.
Write a holiday letter to a child you don’t know.
Write for 2 minutes nonstop on your favorite toy, game, map, present, dessert.
It’s past midnight and the snow is falling…
Write about the season of winter
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You go skating out to the middle of a frozen lake and forget to bring a coat.
Write about either a hobby or an annual event you like to attend during winter.
You are trapped in a hotel with a snowstorm outside.
Someone restores winter to the city with a magic spell
Write about someone wishing on a star for something
Write about being stuck in a snowstorm
A snowflake melts and begins to move
Write about a purple snowman.
Write about something you want to forget
Your car doesn’t start and you don’t have any cash on you.
Write about what Alice felt after she stepped out of the rabbit hole and everything went all crazy twisty.
The story is about a girl who lives in the mountains
A snow girl who went outside to play was never heard from again
Write about your mind during a dog sled race.
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Children in your story defy ice guardians, magical beings who guard the Realm of Ice. The ice guardians look kind but are really plotting the world’s end. Your hero or collective heroes stop the guardians and save the world.
Write about a person who retreats when the cold weather comes.
Three snowmen are arguing over a tea cup.
Write about a snowstorm that never ends.
Write a magic story – a top hat is bought and it turns its wearer into the winter spirit.
Write about being a snowflake that never melts
Create your own winter story that includes the theme of sweet treats and warm drinks.
Write about a town gone wild.
What keeps you awake at night?
What is it like to build a snowman?
Write about the worst snowman you have ever created.
A reindeer loses a leg.
Professors from a magic school who are transformed into snowmen after trying to develop cold weather spells because, “the warlocks can only perform magic without a wand, a wizard without a wand, a wand without a wizard, but never all three combined.”
Everyone goes about their business as usual.
Write about a life on Mars.
A doll is crying in the forest.
An angel crashes to earth.
Write a letter to Santa from someone who is hiding from him.
Write about how you get stuck in the snow in your car.
Write about the first time you celebrated Christmas
A character can see in the dark. What happens?
People are transformed into Polar Bears.
Fresh fallen snow is suddenly pink.
It’s Christmas Eve on your way home from work your money is stolen which you have to use as gas to get home.
Write about a monster in the woods.
Write about the noises heard outside during winter.
Someone is trying to steal Christmas/Kwanza.
The story begins with a sandman coming to visit.
Discuss the point in which winter and spring connected in snowy London.
It’s been years since the town has seen any snow.
Write a scene from a sci-fi winter tale.
Your best friend freezes to death in front of you just before Christmas.
A snow day at school.
She had seen the horrors of the snow.
Write about something you want for Christmas
What are some of your favorite snowflake crafts or snowflake art?
The door of your freezer is open!
Your house suddenly becomes snowed in.
Snow transforms into rain and pouring down.
Describe the first snow. Where was the first snow? Was there first snow for those who live in the desert?
Write about a snowman who sits by a window and watches a family with a child.
A dark figure is seen outside the window, against a backdrop of dreary, snow-covered trees of the same sinister winter scenery.
Write about an intimate moonlit sleigh ride by moonlight with Santa.
What happens to the city when everything is frozen?
Write from the perspective of a snowflake.
Write about cold mornings.
Write about a magical place where only critters can live.
Two kids hear of a monster in the woods.
What do children write about when there’s no place like home in sight?
A blizzard traps a man in a diner.
Write about winter solstice
Tom and Jerry are both chipmunks.
You find a strange clock that slows down or speeds up time.
Write about a night out in the snow.
Write a poem about winter
Write about the perfect snowball.
Write about the experiences of a single snowflake.
There is a thunderstorm over the village.
Write four reasons to create a refugee enumeration camp
Write about light. What does it mean to you?
Your scarf gets caught on a branch. What do you do to get it unstuck?
It Was the night after Christmas and all through the house…
Snow man who does not know that he is a snowman
While traveling abroad for the winter the protagonist receives a letter claiming to have stolen the protagonist’s identity while he was away.
Write about your inner elf.
Build a snowman during a blowtorch summer.
Write about your life in the North Pole.
Mother NGtagla speaks through the snow.
You discover a time machine
Write about the beginning of winter starting a new school, a new job, or a new year.
A winter carnival and everyone forgets what winter is really like.
A boy finds a new friend in winter.
Everyone receives a special gift that is connected to snow.
Write about the transformation of you into a snowman.
Write about what you would be like if you were snow.
Write about a giant fight between the moon and the sun.
The city fills up with snow so much that all the buildings collapse.
The day after it snows, your friend tells you he/she has always seen fairies dancing in the forest surrounding your neighborhood. Write a story describing their magical adventure.
The wolves attack the gingerbread home of your character.
Write the letter your character wrote to the North Pole.
Write a story from the perspective of a snowball.
A girl in her bed dreams she is a snowflake.
Write about what happens to an object without heat
“Snow is my kind of snow.” Write why it is your kind and what you like about it.
Write about Christmas in the summertime.
Two people, one who likes winter, one who dislikes it, see each other for the very first time. What happens, and what are they like?
Gingerbread people magically start to appear after a snow storm.
Write a poem about a snow day.
Write about a polar bear travelling to the north pole.
Write about your favorite part of winter.
Write about what you mean to someone.
Write a story about creatures that only appear in winter, how they came about and their part in Fairy Tales.
Write about the first snow.
Kids don’t realize the snowman they built is alive.
Write a tale about the window’s surface and Christmas Tree– secession poems
Kids go ice skating.
When the sun goes down it gets very cold.
An elephant begins to melt.
Write about a snow baby.
An elephant tries to walk to school on a snowy day.
Reindeer communication with humans
Write about life after surviving in a life submarine for years.
What you do when someone hits you so hard a snowball.
Write about a snow monster.
Write about what it feels like to be young and in love in the winter.
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Write about what makes the best snowball fight.
Write about the adventures of a tramp on the way to deliver a letter.
Life is harder when it snows.
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You’re lost inside a house.
Write from the point of view of winter itself.
Write a list poem.
A lizard and a bear come across an eskimo family.
A Christmas miracle.
Your city is invaded by aliens. Write a recount of all that you witnessed.
Write a story about a snowwoman
Write about an imaginary winter world where it’s always winter time and nothing ever melts.
A town made of cookies is attacked by a herd of wolves.
Write about how aliens and dinosaurs occupied the same time period.
You want to see what your future’s like.
A monster blankets a town for a week.
Your character is separated from their family during a blizzard.
The winter season is coming.
Write about the snowman realizing he wants to be loved.
On New Year’s Day the snowman leaves a present on the main character/novel’s doorstep.
Someone throws a snowball at a window.
It came out of nowhere…
Write a list of things to do during the winter months.
After packing as much snow as they can, Bigfoots drink up the remains.
You take in a sick bird.
An icicle starts talking to you.
All elemental forces unite to save the world from a great temporal threat.
On a typical winter day, you are accidentally knocked into an open sinkhole filled with snow. Melting down, your theme park attractions fall on top of you and you fall down into it. What sucks you into the whirling abyss?
Your idea for snowman comes to life
You want to stay up to see what kind of gifts Santa leaves you.
Bruce has to shovel all the snow for the Winter Festival.
A rabbit falls into a snowbank.
Write about yourself as an ice cube.
Write a story about being an elf.
Your hero wakes up in the middle of the desert
What do you do when the power goes out?
A polar bear is on vacation in the city.
What starts the train that takes children to the land of Ingary?
Write about a snowy scene that comes to life
Write about an ice skating competition.
Write about your Ice Palace.
What if you woke up in the middle of a blizzard with a bout of cabin fever?
Write about opening presents under the Christmas tree.
Body parts begin appearing around town.
You wake up one morning and find all the snow has melted.
Write about a blizzard
Walk in the shoes of a snowman.
A person gets stuck in a frozen pond
Describe a Christmas stocking.
Write about winter being warm
How to live on a deserted East coast during a storm.
Someone is having a snowball fight.
Two kids found a snow fairy.
Write about a sibling.
How do you feel when Christmas is almost here?
A mother and her children are trying to drive through a blizzard, barely holding their car on the road.
Regardless, the snow keeps coming.
Warm colored clothing.
Mother Earth is mother to all but sometimes she needs some help.
Write about what you did on Christmas Eve…
Write from a snowflake point of view.
A telemarketer calls you prior to the second blizzard.
Write about your thoughts when you are in the ocean.
Write about something your family does at Christmas.
You watch a snowflake fall into a bowl of soup.
Write about Christmas decorations
A girl and her cat go sledding
Write about a magic snowflake.
Describe your best Christmas present ever.
Write about the snow fairy
Write about when you were stranded in a snowstorm.
A small wanderer is lost in a snowstorm and stumbles on a house.
A bunch of snowmen suddenly come to life.
Write a letter to someone you miss at Christmastime.
Write about an encounter with a ghost.
Write about a night at a cabin in the woods full of trick-or-treaters
Write about what happens after it stops snowing.
It’s Christmas and no one is home.
A character must kiss someone they hate in order to save them.
Write about the self-discovery as the result of going outside during a snowstorm.
An epidemic of seaweed skin disease hits the town.
A blizzard keeps you trapped in your house.
A snow baby is born to one of the characters.
Someone says they hear voices coming from their snowman.
Write about one of your favorite winters from childhood
Write about what is on the mind of a snowflake
Write a story from the point of view of a snowflake.
A girl has a fight with her best friend during the snowstorm.
You go exploring in the woods with your sled and walk into a cabin that is warm and inviting inside.
Write about what winter means to you.
Write something about Christmas.
Write about a snowman.
Tell the story of how your life changed after arriving in a new city.
A school needs a snow day.
Write about a snowman hooked on human feelings.
A character discovers something is missing
What if Santa Claus created a zoo for Christmas?
You are in a fairy tale land.
She left the party and hurried into the howling wind. Or bit this man.
Someone you love drops out of your life to become involved with drugs and alcohol.
A snowman is knocked over and the big reveal is that they are a woman.
Write about what you do when the snow starts falling.
It just happens.
A town falling on an iceberg.
Touch each other with gloves on.
Write about your haunted home with monsters in it.
Write from the point-of-view of a storm.
Write about spending the night in a department store.
You’re making a snow angel and you feel a breeze.
Your friend gives you what they think is coal for a present when really it is a contagious tropical virus.
Are you brave enough to hide in a snow fort at night?
A winter wish comes true.
Write about the snowball that started a snowball fight.
Write about the three reindeer
Write about what happens when the family mailbox isn’t shoveled out.
All your food falls into your fireplace.
Write a diary entry for a snowflake.
Write about an event that doesn’t make sense in the current season.
Finding a snow god on a snowy day.
Write a fantasy poem entitled “A Carpenter and his Tools”.
It’s a cold, snowy night. A woman stands in front of her window and waits for someone to knock on her door.
Write about your refrigerator.
Write a scene about a snowed in train station and its flow on effect
Write about a boy trying to find his lost sled.
What scares the protagonist?
Write about your ghost.
Write about how you use your talent during the cold weather
Write a poem about how you like winter time.
Write about what happens when the spring is too early.
A winter rose blooms when there has been no snow.
A fountain in a city square becomes sprinting with coins that are really gemstones.
Write about anything that has anything to do with snow.
Write about a snow queen or king
Someone opens their door and finds a snowman, smiling.
The heat goes out in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. A parent begins to read the Christmas story and the whole family gathers in the living room. They read from the “Wise Men” book. What is that book and why is it so important to the Aramston family?
In the 1960s a bunch of kids made a mammoth snowman. Where does the snowman remain?
With no electricity, how would people cope?
Write about the worst ski curse you have heard
You tiptoe your way to grandma and grandpa’s house after reading that they’ve been encased in a famous ice storm.
The winter has melted, what happens in summer?
You are magically transformed into a snowflake and you have six words to describe yourself. Write them down.
A child’s daydreams of adventures in the woods.
Write a poem about snow using vocabulary that feels wintery
Write a paper about polar bears.
Write about a blizzard hitting the city and write about what happens to the people it happens to the animals/livestock it hits.
Someone throws a snowball at you.
A flash flood hits.
Write about a piece of art created entirely out of a material seasonal item.
Write about a cold December day spent waiting around during a power outage.
A cursed land covered in snow.. and snow and snow.
It’s Christmas Eve and you’re waiting for Santa Claus and he just isn’t showing up.
Write a poem about winter
Write you worst day in winter.
Write a poem about photography through the magnification of color.
You are responsible for decorating the city for the holidays.
Write about being the pie in the face on Guy Fawkes night.
How does a ghost use a shovel?
The activities of a snowman.
Write about a blizzard that hits your city. What would you do?
Through ice you can see creatures.
Write about a writer adjusting to the changing seasons.
Write a poem about Mother Nature
While traveling through the woods, something captures your attention on a hill. It is a beautiful white fox?
A piece of winter wonderland appears.
Write a fairy tale involving a girl and her snowflake wings
Write about losing your home to the snow
Write about surviving an avalanche
Write about a reindeer experiencing summer heat.
A video recording lies in your house, memories once locked away, have revealed themselves.
A young girl is snowed in at her grandmother’s house.
Write about what the snowmen do during this storm.
Everybody in your hometown starts to turn into snowmen.
While walking home, you find a turquoise ring in the middle of the sidewalk, and it’s yours if you can identify where it came from.
One day all the snow is gone. What caused it to melt?
Write about the birth of snow.
Write about how life may have been before the Modern Age
A letter to Santa.
Letters are found in snow.
Write about the wind and weather.
Go on an expedition to the North Pole.
Write about regrets.
Write about a quiet winter night.
The wishing well deep in the woods suddenly freezes.
It snows and snows until the President declares a State of Emergency.
Feet go missing on a snowy day.
Write about an encounter with Santa Claus
You are making dinner but it turns into ice.
Write an adventure in the life of an ice cream truck driver.
You’re magically transported to a snow-filled country.
A penguin feels warm inside your gloves.
Write about what a snowflake looks like up close.
Write about a runaway snowman.
You are attacked by a winter dragon.
Cold Creatures are close by.
Write about the last snowball fight you had as a kid.
Haunting lines of wind drift against a black sky.
After a storm there are thousands of presents under the tree. Who do they belong to?
Two children build an igloo to play in.
A snowball is being thrown at a house. Your house.
Winter arrives and all the kids in the neighborhood become deadly snowball throwers.
Write about everyday items brought to life.
Write about curling up the couch with a good book.
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Write about your favorite winter hero
What happens when the first snowflake falls?
Write about a snowball fight between warring clans.
Write about a snowball fight.
Write a character who can control ice or snow
People still go outside and continue their usual routine.
How do you make the best snowman?
A chilling “ice blast” is coming the next day. Ask someone, “How can you not be afraid?”
Write about visiting the North Pole and meeting Santa Clause.
Write a conversation between two snowmen.
Write a story about the time you were chased by an evil snowman, the town is destroyed, but the human need to survive is greater.
Write about a snowball fight Break dancers having a snow dance party.
Frost attacking the city.
Write about a snow monster.
Write about the mischief the fairies could be causing.
A girl’s sled gets caught in a tree.
An ancient creature has to survive the harsh cold of winter.
After the storm, no one can find this person, even though they were seen coming in from the snow.
A writer decides to create the ultimate horror novel.
Write a scary story about snow
Write about spending the day with your favorite snowman.
How would you feel if you had to find a place to stay?
Write about the first day of spring and that last day of winter
Write about the day the snow came to town. Write about the time the zombies came and your neighbor Jimmy gave you his bug out bag. Write a story starting with the line, “Jimmy gave me the bag and said to run out the back door!” 1st person past.
Write about snow angels.
Write about something wintery that happened where you live and write about it in a way to make your readers feel like they were right next to you.
Write about the worst snow day of your life.
It’s getting warmer and warmer and your winter coat is in the cupboard.
Snow theme party invitations
Write about a day in a winter wonderland.
Why do people shovel?
Write about what you would like Santa Claus to leave you in your stocking.
A blizzard occurs and everyone prepares for the worst.
Investigate a mysterious package or box that arrives at your doorstep.
It looks like the lights aren’t working during the Christmas season, only to discover a star only Christmas books, no fairy tales and autitomime, a first identical child, will return to its original form.
It’s Valentine’s Day, but there’s no sign of love – until a snowstorm arrives and brings love with it.
Write about a snow globe escaping to the real world.
The spirit of Christmas causes everyone to stop moving.
Your head is replaced by a completely new one, different from the rest of your body.
Write about an area where there is a constant winter snow.
Exercise your creativity by writing about a snow creature or person.
Jonah and the whale have a conversation.
Writing a song about the cold never bothered me anyhow.
Someone finds an entrance to Santa’s workshop through a cave.
Write about a family in winter who can’t leave their home.
Someone gives you a snow globe in the middle of summer.
Write about life as an ice skater
It’s your last day at school and you are packing your bags when suddenly the lights go out.
You find the perfect sled, but you know that it must be hidden away next winter, because you don’t want it stolen or broken.
Write about a make believe alien.
There is no Visible sun on the planet.
A witch’s best friend suddenly flies away.
It’s Christmas Eve, and you imagine the adventure of Santa’s reindeers.What do you buy for your family and friends?
Write a fictional risk-taking story about your favorite act of adventure.
Write a story about dreaming of a Christmas party
Write a scene about something stolen being returned
Write about a tiny creature going through a blizzard in search of its long time master.
A monster invades a city made of ice.
Write about how your town hasn’t had a snowfall for so long that you’ve forgotten how to build a proper snowman.
A young child discovers that snowflakes have feelings!
All the world is white. Your character has 30 minutes of light to survive.
Write about life living in the arctic.
An abandoned snowman’s eyes suddenly open and it looks around.
What are some winter traditions or superstitions in your family? Does everyone follow them, or is it a “do as you wish” sort of event?
There is a snow storm, all the kids are snowing in the school.
A catastrophe occurs and it is up to you and your family to survive.
A child asks Santa for a magical power.
Write about what happens after The Lorax.
February. The month of romance.
During a blizzard, a deer calls for help.
Write about what you would or wish you knew what it was like living in a snow globe.
Write about your experience taking care of your neighbor who had a heart attack while shoveling the driveway.
Write about an old lady who is mad at everything.
Write about a snowflake.
You need to tell someone how you feel about them, but you don’t speak their language, and cannot communicate.
Write about what happened when your family tried Sneak King
A woman whose heart is made of ice is in love with a man.
Write about your worst sledding accident.
A widow writes a letter to Santa Claus, telling him how she feels this Christmas.
The world has been shrouded in a fog for years, preventing anyone from knowing what is happening in the rest of the world.
Write about winter in your own life.
A group of witches arrive in a town.
Write about how you deal with dark times of the year.
You are the first person to step outside after a very rare snowfall.
What is it that person by you is really scared of? And why?
The first snowflake falls.
It was fate that left me, after all.
Write non-fiction about winter.
Twin toads are taken from their parents on Christmas Eve.
Go outside and write five things you see that look like bugs or other living things.
The most exciting thing that ever happened during winter.
Write about a creative way your mom turned mashed potatoes into a fun game.
A little girl finds an enchanted jar filled with snow.
New neighbors move in.
Write about what might happen on a city road that is covered in snow.
Write about what happens in the hours when the storm hits.
You wake up one morning and find you have begun to become invisible.
Write about something weird in the snow.
Write about a snowflake.
Write about a family’s reaction to Thanksgiving or Christmas when the TV goes dead.
A snowman comes alive.
Write about a snow angel.
Write about sitting by the fireplace and reading a tale in a book.
A break in the cold front forces sledders out of bed.
There are new, human-like, creatures in the forest.
Your favorite winter candy
A snow globe comes to life.
Write about an object that is frozen in ice.
The first snowfall of winter arrives.
Write a poem about winter.
Write out your deepest Winter fears.
Write a poem about winter.
Write from a snowflake’s point of view
Write an essay on micro management.
Winter begins to turn into spring.
You want so long to go outside and play in the snow.
Write about pengwings flying with reindeer.
One evening a man notices his neighbor has frozen to death.
Write about a nest in winter made of snow.
You awake as the sun is coming up and you’re not at home.
Write about an author or protagonist that is more than meets the eye.
Write about a blizzard that destroys everything.
Write about a sports team yet to win a championship in the big game.
“Snow” is a unique take on the zombie movie genre.
Write a scene that takes place in nature- something that your characters did “before”.
Because of Old Man Winter
Gingerbread people escape from the shop.
Write about the feeling of snowflakes falling on your face.
Write about an enchanted winter forest
Write the incident report prematurely from the perspective of the incident commander.
Write a poem about a cold snap
You meet Santa Claus.
Flowers covered by snow is one of my favorite scenes in Harry Potter
Write about a character living in a tropical country or place with a warm climate who moves to a place with snow for the winter.
A leprechaun is spotted in the middle of winter.
The world is slowly coming to an end because there isn’t any snow. Write about that.
Write a story about snowflakes
What does winter’s end foretell?
It’s midnight the night before Christmas.
You decide to climb a tall snow covered mountain before the weather changes.
After the snowstorm is done the city ends up looking completely different
They Call Her the Cat in the Hat
Write about the start of winter
Write a story about donating a gift for Mother’s Day.
It is a snowy day in a suburban neighborhood.
How are you different during the winter or during the summer?
You’re inside during a snowstorm and everyone outside is frozen.
Where the ice caps once settled, huge animals brought from the red planet colonized the new icy terrain
It’s Christmas and you must find a present to bring for one friend…who is it?
Write about winter disappearing and spring appearing
When do you feel invisible?
A snowflake suddenly begins to move….
Write about a shrunken child and an outsized reindeer.
A snow sculpture becomes alive.
Write about yourself under a popular alias.
Write about your favorite food that is ice cream.
About a family making a snowman.
Describe two potential parties for one who abhors Christmas.
You are in a snowstorm and trapped in a car.
A snowman comes to life and begins wreaking havoc on the city.
The ground is covered in white, calm the civil panic, then a hand rises from the snow.
Write about snow angels.
Write what kind of people you think live in the snow biome. What do they look like? What is their culture and heritage like? What might you find in their homes? Did they live by a certain set of moral or good values? Be detailed about their society.
Write about winter solstice.
Life in a weather bubble
A train gets stopped because it is too cold for the tracks to stay in place.
Write about your visit to a North Pole
There’s an ice storm for the holidays.
Winter Olympics
Santa Claus throws an amazing snow party before he leaves for his holiday route.
Write about your struggle to finding a job after the apocalypse
A gothic yeti walks down the street.
A snowman comes to life and is looking for heat.
An ice hockey game takes place in the middle of the city.
Write about living in an igloo.
A ghost suddenly appears from the snow.
Wind howls.
A lost pet is found buried under the snow
What’s under the surface of the snow? What do you see? What do you hear?
A person begins to change while they are asleep while at their job.
A student visits the North Pole.
Write about a shrunken head on a pole/your desk/door
Write the description of all your favorite clothes and their place of storage.
A person starts disappearing and only their scarf is found.
Write about the polar bears’ escape from the zoo.
Raven arrives the next morning. The young boy does what the raven says and sells his eyes. The couple doesn’t want to kill their son, their son knows what they are, he had dreams of them being evil and eating humans, and he was not wrong because they do.
What happens to you and your friends?
A beautiful snowy day.
Write a few sentences about spring.
The summer is unusually warm so people travel to your hometown to experience winter for the first time. What do they do and what are the drawbacks for you?
Siblings from different families argue about who gets the bigger room.
A river becomes frozen.
Outside, the gray gray sky opens up to the blue blue world below.
Write about a snow storm that disrupts family life.
Write about your dog sledding across town
Snowball fights. Write about that time when…
A city relocated… in the dead of winter.
You travel to a city that you have never been to before
Two people meet on a snowy road, but don’t know how they got there.
Write about how snow days are the best!
Write about what a snowflake might feel like.
Write a story about going to school and trying to keep warm.
Two children are awakened by the fireplace ashes.
Write about the birth of a baby in the winter.
Someone calls you and says they’re trapped in a snowstorm and need a place to stay.
A day in the life of a snowflake.
Who do you think is responsible?
An old woman is seen collecting all the discarded poinsettias from the city.
Write about sledding.
Write about life in the blistering cold street.
Instead of a snowman a woman creates an army of snowmen.
Write about your first reaction to being caught in a snowstorm.
A group of monarch butterflies needs to cross a snowstorm to get to warmer weather.
Write about something that occurs to a human in the winter… something they do or think.
Write about a snowman.
People enjoying winter activities
Write about a day in winter.
Write about someone living happily in a snow globe.
What do you WANT for Christmas?
You deserve a vacation after the last year of hard work.
The loss of power
A snow demon wreaks havoc.
A blizzard prevents a traveler from arriving at a meeting.
Write about a year in the life of your snowman.
Explain how each of the seasons is special in its own way.
Write about a demon snowman.
Write about how winter makes you feel.
Dinosaur footprints are discovered in a new subdivision.
The snow is melting earlier than usual.
Write about making a snowman.
Outdoor winter games.
A cold snap hits, and two main characters unwittingly touch for warmth.
A dragon prepares for bed while complaining about the heat.
Write about walking with your Jack Frost.
One last coat of paint
Think of three words connected to the word winter and play a game like Scrabble.
It’s Christmas, suddenly we are descended upon by aliens. They say everyone in the city now owns an ear flower, and when worn act as an AI. What are your thoughts now that third eyes grew on you?
Write about a snowball fight
Santa begins to feel sick.
The hat your friend knitted is ruined by the snow. Write a sequel to “The Hat” by Steven Erikson
You have just found out that you are allergic to snow. What happens?
Write about an indoor snowball fight.
Someone rebuilds Tokyo a la the phoenix.
What creatures do you think live in the snow?
Write a poem about a wet snow day.
Something magical happens late at night during a snowstorm. An old man appears on the front porch of the house you’re in. The old man tells you he is your “wintry guardian.” What advice does he give you?
Write about a snow monster.
An officer receives a letter from an inmate in a seevern prison a day after Christmas.
A school bully terrorizes you.
In your writing, try to describe the carvings in detail.
Write about your character visiting the North Pole.
Write about the first time you tried snow tubing.
Write about a winter fairy.
You wake up to snow for the first time of your life.
It is time to throw a snowball at a stranger.
The Flash writes a letter to his Flash fan club.
Write about what you would do if you struck a deal with a fairy
Look out your window and describe the person you see.
A mean, sad snowman.
Write a haiku about winter.
A man sings a song without any words.
Write about things without warmth.
A couple start arguing about the best way to keep warm.
Write about a runaway snowman.
A man tells a woman to leave the city before the winter storm hits.
Describe the first snowfall of the year
You’re a raccoon trying to store as much food as you can for the coming winter.
The forest suddenly becomes wintry.
Someone starts an indoor snowball fight.
A child attacks a snowman, and says it talked to him/her.
“The North Pole is on the earth.” A debate erupts.
Write about your fears in the winter.
There’s a snowball fight going on, write about it.
What do you do when there will be absolutely no school for eight months?
Write about a child going outside to play in the snow and not wanting to go back inside.
When you wish upon a winter star, it really does come true.
A snow storm overtakes a small rural town and a group of kids go on an exciting journey to try and rescue the adults trapped in the city.
Write about how a specific person’s life might change because of a blizzard.
If your heart could speak, what would it sound like?
It’s almost Christmas and all the presents have been delivered to all the houses in the world except one, write about what you think it is and what the character is thinking.
In the middle of winter, there is never any school because it’s snowing.
You feel the need to climb the mountain.
A snow day! School is closed for the day and you have nothing to do.
Write about snow.
Write about this, “Many believe the Christmas season did not start until Advent came.”
Write about the roaring of winter.
Describe a winter love story.
Write from the perspective of someone paralyzed.
It’s winter, and everyone is searching for the wonderful gifts that were not received.
Snow begins falling from a peculiar angle.
Write about making a snow angel.
People who are usually shy become extroverted when it snows.
It is too cold to go out.
Life in a snowglobe
It’s a winter wonderland and you are there.
It’s the start of the big snow ball fight.
What winter problems does your creature encounter?
Write about being a kid trying to get back home as the snowstorm hits.
A teacher reads from a book titled “Poems of the Snow”.
Write about a story of a snowball fight.
Give the characteristics of a snowflake
Write a letter to Santa
The students do the same activity using word/phrase cards. We review, practice, and play a game all at once.
Write about adventure on an ice flow
Write that quote by Waldo “Where’s Momma? No, where’s Suzie?”
Someone in a relationship longs for summer.
Suddenly it is always Christmas. It is snowing. People seem to love it and feel great joy. What do you think is happening.?
Snow with a hint of red fills the alleyway at your school.
The first snowfall of the year.
Write about a time you played in the snow.
A person is having a hard time adjusting to snow.
An ordinary man spots an extraordinary person walking through the snow.
Guess what Sunday is?
Go on a winter picnic in this weather
Write a story about this photo .
There is no snow, but your world is still white
Kris Kringle gets sick from eating non-vegan hot chocolate.
Write about a winter romance.
A secret about snowmen is revealed.
Is there a Nutcracker who guards the nut trees?
What would your favorite snack be if you were made a snowman?
A ski jump is built in front of your house
For some reason, all snow has turned pink.
My fantasy world has suddenly become a reality, due to a season flip.
Write about being an icicle.
The main character is stuck in her room.
Children discover a flurry of animal tracks.
All the books in the library begin moving around.
Write a page letter to Santa.
Unexpected guests show up at the door.
Write about a time you messed up and how you made it right
Fake trees are put in front of a faceless department store.
Write about a character who just wants to sit on the couch and watch tv.
Temperature changes shift the ground and cause cracks in the ground that swallow a house up.
A new winter attraction is created.
Write about a dinner party held in your home
Mechanics use a new invention for snow removal.
Write about flying on a family trip to South America for Christmas.
Write a poem about walking/being out in the snow
Winter travels to Texas.
What story does the snow have to tell?
When you have a brilliant idea what do you do with it?
Write about what your wintery days are like.
Have fun, be silly. Writing is all about how much you enjoy yourself. If you don’t have fun…what’s the point?
All the birds of the woods suddenly fly south.
Kids disappear at a winter carnival
Is there a trick in this treat?
Will Santa be able to make it for all the children this year?
Write about waking up in an igloo on a very cold morning.
A frozen flood of raging waters…
Write a poem about an ice skating accident
Write about a story you tell children to help them sleep.
Write about a land with no snow
Write about living in a treasonous, isolated land.
What do you do to stay warm during long, cold nights
Write about a -30°C party.
Write about it.
What do you find in the strangest places after a snowstorm? What was where? Writing Prompts are list of ideas to inspire
Write about a fierce snow creature.
The sun sets early
Write about winter for a change
Two friends come across the concept of snowflakes.
Write about someone who travels to the North Pole.
Write a letter to Winter saying why you’re excited for Winter
Write about your life as the Abominable Snowman
Write about a dismal winter day
Orion eats ice cream over the caribbean sea with Sirius.
Man builds a snowdog by himself.
You happen across a beautiful ice sculpture and soon find out it is more than beautiful ice
What kind of food do you eat the most when it’s cold?
While on your way to an important business meeting, your subway car falls under a mountain of snow.
Write a poem dedicated to your neighborhood snowman.
Trapped outside with something strange.
Someone accidentally throws a snowball, hitting a person.
A storm hits town.
Write about the first time you left the inside and had an experience with the snow.
Write about your favorite way to celebrate Christmas.
It’s Christmas Eve and you can’t fall asleep.
A snow angel shows up on someone’s door.
He’s always yelling at Marvin. No one knows why.
Write about nature in the winter.
A reindeer drives you into the woods.
Write about a reindeer that lives in an apartment in the city.
A snowstorm is the only thing that can mask your escape from a room.
Criminals run amuck in a winter forest.
Childhood memories of a certain winter.
It is Christmas Eve. The later it gets, the spookier it gets.
Write about someone who survived winter while being lost in a blizzard.
If you could live out of all the seasons, which would it be?
Your favorite hero travels to a winter-land.
You unwrap your new pair of skis.
A snow globe bursts open and releases a magical being.
Write about life living in a snow globe.
Write about what it would be like to be stranded in the arctic circle.
You walk outside and everything has turned into a winter wonderland. What things have turned to ice? What things are still normal?
Rival ski’s battled it out for the top spot.
Write from the point of view of being in a blizzard in an isolated place. What is the cause of the blizzard? Describe how everything goes wrong and the story of getting through the blizzard in the protagonist’s POV.
Write a story revolving around a 100-day countdown to your favorite winter holiday.
How do we know the snowman can speak?
How would you survive if you were stranded in the snow?
Write about being the last person / animal alive.
Who stole all the weather?
Write about your favorite winter sports.
Write a love letter to the first snowfall of the year.
Write about being a snowflake
A cold day laboring in the mines.
Coloring the snow comes to life.
Write your own version of “The Night Before Christmas”.
A dog goes sledding down a hill.
Strange music comes from a dark cave.
Inside an igloo, where a family is snowbound unexpectedly, what is the biggest problem as time goes on?

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