last week at the handwriting workshop i attended... a fellow homeschool mom shared a bright idea with me for handwriting with my reluctant writer...

it was such an amusing success, i thought i'd share it with you! it's creative writing at it's best!

here's what you do:

each of us wrote out any 5 words on pieces of paper... so we had a total of ten words.... we flipped them in the middle of the table and "had to make a story up using the words!" on friday i had my husband throw in 5 words, too. then tommie and i set off to write!

an idea for the words we worked with were: napoleon bonaparte, payloader, potato chip, pepper, dog, horse tail, courthouse, dentist, siene river, barn, mother and more.

my reluctant writer... who usually moans, groans and complains about handwriting.... actually honkered down and never looked up. what a blessing.

i plan to ask relatives and friends to write down 5 words for us... just to mix things up!

i hope you try it with your kids, too! it's loads of fun.