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Write a story about a summer fling., write a story about a family summer vacation to europe that… does not go to plan..

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Write a story about a tea party that your character is reluctant to go to.

Write a story about characters going on a summer road trip..

• Write a story about somebody reminiscing on an event that happened many summers ago.
• End your story with somebody stepping out into the sunshine.
• Write about the longest day of the year, or a day that never seems to end.

Write about a character who thinks they have a sun allergy.

• Write about a community that worships Mother Nature.

Write a story set in the summer, when suddenly it starts to snow.

• Write a story about another day in a heatwave.

Write a story that begins with someone's popsicle melting.

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The best summer writing prompts

Fun at the beach, an awe-inspiring trip in nature, exploring and camping on long, sunny days — summer is many perople's favorite season for good reason. The possibilities seem endless, and there are therefore an endless number of summer stories to tell. Luckily for you, we've got plenty of ideas for thosewith our summer writing prompts.

Whether your characters are enjoying the final days of a golden summer with friends before returning to school, hanging out at the neighborhood pool, or about to travel on the vacation of a lifetime filled with sun, sea, and sand — and perhaps a summer romance — there's adventure around every corner.

Here are our top ten summer writing prompts:

• Write about characters going on a summer road trip.
• Write a story about a family summer vacation to Europe that… does not go to plan. 
• Write a story about a summer fling. 
• Write a story that begins with someone's popsicle melting.

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Summer Writing Prompts: 100 Ideas to Write All Summer Long

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Summer is the perfect time and season to practice writing and let it feel more like play than work. Today, I've collected a list of summer writing prompts: enough to write one per day of the season! 

A few summers ago, I led summer writing camps for kids called Write Camp. It was a blast helping kids of all ages get their fantastical ideas down on paper. My sister signed up my nephew, even though he was a reluctant third grade writer at the time. She wasn't sure he'd even participate.

I assured her that the no-pressure, fun environment would help him imagine writing in a new way, and that he would finish the summer with a story or two and a new understanding of writing.

I'm happy to report I was right! He and his fellow write campers all finished stories and left feeling more confident in their writing skills. 

Sometimes we spend so much time trying to get students to write correctly that we drain all the fun out of it. We forget that the first step to becoming a strong writer is to actually write. Try these summer writing prompts to help you (or a young writer in your life!) have some writing fun.

Summer journal prompts

If you keep a journal like me, try one of these prompts for some quick summer journaling. 

1. Describe the perfect summer day from beginning to end. What activities would you engage in and why?

2. Write about a memorable vacation or summer road trip. What made it special and why do you still remember it?

3. Share your favorite summer recipe. Include the ingredients and step-by-step instructions. How does it remind you of summer?

4. Write about a summer adventure you would like to experience. It could be something daring or out of your comfort zone. Why does it intrigue you?

5. Describe a summer tradition or ritual that you and your family or friends have. What makes it meaningful and how does it enhance your summer experience?

6. Write about a time when you felt completely relaxed during the summer.

7. Share your favorite summer read or book recommendation.

8. Write about a summer hobby or activity that brings you joy. How did you discover this hobby, and how does it make your summer more fulfilling?

9. Describe a summer sunset or sunrise that left a lasting impression on you. What were the colors like, and how did the scene make you feel?

10. Write about a summer project or goal you have set for yourself. How do you plan to accomplish it, and what impact do you hope it will have on your summer?

11. Share a list of your favorite summer songs or a summer playlist. Why do these songs resonate with you, and how do they enhance your summer vibe?

12. Write about a summer friendship that has played a significant role in your life. How did you meet, and what makes this friendship special?

Summer story starters

Use one of these sentence starters to get your own story off and running!

13. The sun-drenched beach was bustling with laughter and the sound of crashing waves until…

14. In the sleepy seaside town, 

15. As the ice cream truck jingled its way down the neighborhood streets, a group of friends suddenly noticed…

16. The sweltering heat seemed unbearable until…

17. Deep in the forest, a group of campers stumbled upon a hidden waterfall, sparking…

18. In a small coastal village, a young girl discovered a message in a bottle, and…

19. The couple stood in the field of sunflowers when they noticed…

20. At the annual summer fair, a shy teenager accepts a dare to visit a fortune teller who…

21. The fireflies danced in the warm night air, illuminating the path leading to…

22. On a remote island, a group of siblings stumbled upon an old map that led them to…

23. As the summer storm unleashed its fury, a group of teenagers sought refuge in an abandoned mansion, only to discover…

Summer travel prompts

24. Imagine you're on a tropical island paradise. Describe the crystal-clear waters, palm trees swaying in the breeze, and the sensation of warm sand between your toes.

25. Create a travel itinerary for a road trip along the scenic coastal highway, complete with stops at charming seaside towns and breathtaking viewpoints.

26. You've just arrived in a bustling city known for its vibrant street markets and cultural landmarks. Write about your first impressions and the unique experiences you encounter.

27. Picture yourself hiking through a majestic national park, surrounded by towering mountains, cascading waterfalls, and abundant wildlife. Describe the awe-inspiring beauty of nature.

28. You've decided to embark on a backpacking adventure across Europe. Write about the different cities you visit, the diverse cultures you experience, and the unforgettable people you meet along the way.

29. Imagine exploring a historical city filled with ancient ruins and architectural wonders. Describe the rich history and cultural significance of the landmarks you encounter.

30. You're on a gastronomic journey, discovering the flavors and culinary delights of a foreign country. Write about the mouthwatering dishes, local specialties, and the joy of indulging in new tastes.

31. Picture yourself lounging on a luxurious cruise ship, sailing through turquoise waters and visiting exotic islands. Describe it!

32. You've decided to embark on a backpacking trip through a dense rainforest. Write about the vibrant biodiversity, the sounds of exotic creatures, and the sense of adventure as you navigate through the wilderness.

33. Imagine staying at a cozy mountain lodge, surrounded by mountain peaks and alpine meadows in full summer bloom.

34. You've chosen to visit a remote village tucked away in the countryside. Write about it!

35. Picture yourself on a safari in the African savannah, surrounded by majestic wildlife. Describe all you see.

Summer setting prompts

While some of these overlap with other prompts, use these to practice sensory details and setting. 

36. Describe the feeling of sinking your toes into warm, soft sand on a sunny beach during the peak of summer.

37. Paint a vivid picture of a vibrant summer sunset, capturing the hues of orange, pink, and purple that streak across the sky.

38. Describe the refreshing sensation of jumping into a crystal-clear pool or lake on a scorching summer day, highlighting the coolness against your skin.

39. Depict the sights, sounds, and scents of a bustling farmers' market in the summertime, with rows of colorful fruits and vegetables, the chatter of vendors, and the aroma of freshly baked goods.

40. Portray the atmosphere of a lively summer festival, showcasing the lively music, energetic crowds, and a kaleidoscope of vibrant decorations and food stalls.

41. Describe the lush greenery and delicate blossoms of a summer garden, emphasizing the fragrance of blooming flowers and the buzzing of bees among the petals.

42. Paint a picture of a tranquil summer morning in the countryside, capturing the mist rising from the fields, the chirping of birds, and the gentle rustle of leaves in the breeze.

43. Depict the scene of a family picnic in a park.

44. Describe the exhilaration of a thrilling roller coaster ride at a busy theme park, conveying the anticipation, adrenaline rush, and exhilarating twists and turns.

45. Portray the charm of a quaint seaside town, highlighting the pastel-colored houses, the aroma of freshly caught seafood, and the sound of seagulls soaring overhead.

Childhood summer prompts

46. Recall a favorite childhood summer memory and describe it in vivid detail, from the sights and sounds to the emotions you felt.

47. Write about your most treasured summer toy or activity from your childhood. What made it special, and why did you enjoy it so much?

48. Describe a fun summer activity you did with your friends (or family) when you were younger. What did you do, and how did it strengthen your bond?

49. Write about the excitement and anticipation you felt as summer vacation approached each year. What were some of the activities you looked forward to the most?

50. Recall a summer camp experience from your childhood. Describe the camp setting, the activities you participated in, and the friendships you formed.

51. Write about a summer tradition that was unique to your family when you were a child. What made it special, and how did it create lasting memories?

52. Describe a magical summer night from your childhood. Were there fireflies lighting up the sky or a mesmerizing display of stars? How did it make you feel?

53. Recall a day of summer when you discovered something new and exciting, whether it was a hidden spot in your neighborhood or a fascinating creature in nature. Describe the moment of discovery.

54. Write about a summer project or hobby you pursued as a child. How did it ignite your creativity?

55. Describe a favorite summer treat from your childhood, whether it was a refreshing ice cream flavor or a homemade dessert. 

56. Recall a summer book or story that captivated your imagination as a child. Describe the characters, the setting, and the emotions it evoked.

57. Write about a summer family vacation you took as a child. Describe the experience.

Summer poetry prompts

Maybe you want to try your hand at poetry this summer! Remember that poetry thrives on precise word choices that convey concrete images and emotion. Practice playing with specificity! 

58. Write an acrostic poem capturing the essence of summer, one word or phrase per letter S-U-M-M-M-E-R.

59. Craft a poem that explores the energy of a beach on a hot summer day.

60. Write a poem inspired by the scent of freshly cut grass and the feeling of bare feet on the lawn.

61. Reflect on the beauty of a blooming flower in the summer heat.

62. Create a poem that embodies the freedom and exhilaration of riding a bicycle through winding country roads.

63. Write a poem that paints a vivid picture of a summer storm.

64. Craft a poem that explores the enchantment of a starlit sky on a clear summer night, evoking a sense of wonder and awe.

65. Reflect on the simple pleasure of enjoying a juicy slice of watermelon or peach on a hot summer day.

66. Write a poem inspired by the sound of children's laughter echoing through a park.

67. Capture the serenity and tranquility of a lazy afternoon spent swinging in a hammock, embracing the leisurely pace of summer.

68. Create a sonnet about your favorite flavor of ice pop.

69. Reflect on the feel of running through a sprinkler or a summer rain.

70. Write a poem inspired by the rhythm and energy of a summer music festival.

71. Craft a poem that explores the nostalgia of chasing fireflies in the twilight.

72. Reflect on the passage of time and the bittersweet feeling of summer's end.

73. Write a poem inspired by the sand on a beach towel.

74. Build a haiku about something that reminds you of summer in nature. (For haiku help, go here .)

75. Write a poem about missing out on a treasured summer tradition and what you had to do instead. 

Summer adventure story ideas

76. Two best friends embark on a sailing adventure, exploring remote islands, encountering marine wildlife, and discovering the true meaning of friendship.

77. In a sleepy beach town, a young artist finds inspiration in the local community and stages an unforgettable summer art exhibition.

78. During a summer internship at a renowned museum, a curious teenager stumbles upon a secret society dedicated to preserving the city's forgotten history, and becomes entangled in a dangerous adventure to protect its secrets from falling into the wrong hands.

79. A group of adventurous kids forms a secret club and embarks on a mission to solve a series of mysterious events plaguing their neighborhood during summer break.

80. A teenager moves to a new town at the end of the school year, and gets a summer job, but they had no idea what they were in for.

81. A retired rock-climber and expedition leader ventures into the wilderness on a solo expedition, testing their survival skills, and hoping to prove their fitness. 

82. A mischievous pair of siblings embark on a mission to solve a local legend, leading them to uncover a hidden treasure and restore the town's forgotten history.

83. Two best friends stumble upon a time-traveling device during a summer camping trip, taking them on an extraordinary journey through different historical eras.

84. A young street performer with extraordinary talents finds herself caught up in a whirlwind adventure when she catches the attention of a mysterious talent scout, leading her on a journey through the city's vibrant arts scene and unexpected encounters.

85. A group of neighbors form a detective club and set out to solve a series of mysterious disappearances in their city during the sweltering summer days, uncovering a hidden criminal network.

Fun summer lists

For this final set of summer writing prompts, I challenge you to make a quick list on each prompt and see what ideas emerge. 

86. Make a list of the top ten best (or worst!) things about visiting a water park.

87. Outline the most essential qualities needed for a summer camp counselor. (Consider how this might be different if kids made the list? HA!)

88. List the ten most fun outdoor games to play during summer.

89. What are the best treats to have during hot summer months? Ice cream? Ice pops? Mojitos? (for those of age, of course!)

90. Essential wardrobe staples for summer. (Again, this would be interesting to compile for different types and ages of people!)

91. Make a list of the top ten best or worst places to visit in the summer.

92. Best movies to watch during the summer. 

93. A deserted island packing list.

94. Best or worst things to ride/ eat/ play at an amusement park or state fair. 

95. Favorite summer swimming holes.

96. List your top ten songs about summer. (Put on a few for inspiration!)

97. Favorite summer snack foods for road trips. 

98. Summer holidays ranked. (Challenge level: look up the summer holidays in a different country!)

99. List the ten essential components of a dream summer break.

100. Ten must-see hikes or waterfalls or parks in your area—perfect for a summer outing!

Summer writing prompts: now you try! 

Give these summer-themed writing prompts a try and see if you don't find yourself enjoying these warm summer days even more!

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Sue Weems is a writer, teacher, and traveler with an advanced degree in (mostly fictional) revenge. When she’s not rationalizing her love for parentheses (and dramatic asides), she follows a sailor around the globe with their four children, two dogs, and an impossibly tall stack of books to read. You can read more of her writing tips on her website .

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1001 Writing Prompts About Summer Vacation

March 23, 2021

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Summer vacations play a significant role in literature, particularly in young adult fiction. This is because it symbolizes youth and freedom, as most school-aged characters are out of school and free to do anything they want during this time of the year.

One of the most notable stories about summer vacation is The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares—a series that tells the story of four young girls who acquire a pair of jeans that fit all of them perfectly even though they have different body shapes and sizes, during the most important summer vacations of their lives. Another is Second Chance Summer—a novel that follows a girl named Taylor Edwards as she and her family return to their old lake house after her father receives terrible news.

If you want to create your own novel or short story about summer vacations, here are interesting writing prompts for you to try:

• It’s summer vacation and you decide to go on a family trip to the zoo.
• Write about something you did on summer vacation that you wish you had not done.
• Write this scene as a missing child report from police.
• Write about summer vacation.
• Prepare the best summer family vacation you can
• Write about the extremes of summer vacation.
• You and your family move and end up living by the beach for the summer.
• Everybody you know moved away, so you get a roommate for free during the summer vacation.
• Write about an old man who has a tough summer vacation.
• Write a letter you sent to a friend on summer vacation.
• You have been cursed to spend the rest of your life on summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and all you want to do is sleep.
• Your family spends a lot of time in nature camping. You go on the worst camping trip ever.
• One year at summer vacation, you forgot to go on vacation but somehow have slipped back in time.
• Write about a time when school got cancelled for some reason.
• People have traveled to your town during summer vacation and ruined something special. Write about what that something special was.
• You are on a small, tropical island off the coast of Hawaii with a small group of people and one of them has gone missing.
• You are at summer camp and all the kids in your cabin play pranks, whatever they can think of.
• Describe your first real summer job.
• Your family moves to a new town during summer vacation. At the end of the first day, you actually make a friend. Write about the ways that friendship progresses over the course of the summer.
• It’s summer vacation. Write a poem about it.
• Write a scene with three of your favorite weather elements.
• Write about what a terrible day it’s turning out to be.
• You’re out camping with your family or friends. Something goes terribly wrong.
• Your family is taking a trip on a pirate ship. Write about it.
• Spending summer with . . .
• Write about a problem you face that you would rather forget about.
• Write about the worst summer vacation experience.
• You have a week-long vacation at a beach house.  What happens at the beach house?
• Unlikely friendship carried out during a summer vacation.
• It is the summer of hot fudge sundaes, right down the street from you. Write about this.
• Harry and Lloyd take the girls on a road trip.
• The first day of summer vacation is the best.
• Write about your favorite summer activity.
• Summer vacation is boring until something exciting happens to you.
• Write about your dream summer vacation.
• You move from a city to the country and realize that insects can now get to you.
• You have been banned from summer vacation because of a prank. Write about how you are coping.
• Write about being bitten by a dog.
• Make a list of the summer things you do or want to do.
• Write about your least favorite summer vacation.
• Write about the summer vacation you thought you would take. Things kept getting in the way. Now it’s next summer and it’s too late.
• Write about an awkward moment you had while on summer vacation.
• Write about a vacation disaster.
• Write about your last summer vacation.
• The next president’s vacation has to be written about. The writer must choose the setting and make the writer feel like they are there.
• Write about some childhood summer vacations you remember.
• Your family hired an outdated watchdog named “Fido” for security.
• Later in the summer you notice your eye’s iris is turning a brilliant shade of green.
• Write about the time you spent in summer school.
• Use at least three of the quotes in this article.
• The summer vacation turns ugly when you are split apart from your friends. You decide to go on a journey to find them again.
• Write from the perspective of an odd family tradition. They roll up the carpets during the summer and unplug all electronics so they won’t overheat.
• Write about the time you did stand up at camp.
• Summer vacation is the best season of the year. Bartender, I’ll have you know how school for adults does summer vacation!
• It is summer vacation and two families are at a beach house in North Carolina.
• It is summer vacation and you just started a new diet. What are your temptations?
• You are stuck in an airport during a thunderstorm and you don’t know if you’re going to get to your flight or if your flight is going to take off.
• Write about the most boring summer vacation.
• Write about walking through the streets during a summer heat wave.
• It’s summer vacation and the school has left you behind. You have no friends and nowhere to go. What do you do?
• Someone you know is accused of doing something bad. You have to help them clear their name.
• A parent is on a summer vacation and is trying their best to stay in touch with their loved ones everyday while being gone.
• Summer break comes and you realize you have to find a summer job.
• Summer vacation is the perfect time to start a new hobby. Write about it.
• Your wife leaves you on the weekend of your anniversary during a heat wave. How do you survive it?
• Stuck home alone and bored during vacation.
• Describe your house on vacation.
• Write about a character who goes on vacation to a tropical island.
• It is the first day of summer vacation and one month until school starts. Write about how you’re feeling.
• Write about something you want to do at some point during summer vacation Write about how you spent summer vacation. Write about what you want to spend your summer vacation doing.
• It’s the first day of summer vacation and you aren’t looking forward to being awake for most of the day with nothing to do.
• It is summer vacation and a tropical storm is moving in.
• Attention everyone! We need more summer-themed stories.
• Write about what it was like when you were ten and moving into high school.
• It is the first day of school. Each student has to tell why their summer was the best.
• Write about the summer vacation the world wishes it could see.
• It’s summer vacation and you’re staying at your family house.
• It’s the middle of summer vacation and your dog dies.
• Summer has been going so fast you did not write down your employment details. You will get caught in a web of lies.
• Middle school kids get summer vacation and senior prom mixed up. Include at least two go-to vacation foods.
• Write about what happens on the first day of summer vacation.
• Write about a comforting room in a summer house.
• It is summer and one of the meteorologists from the local television station announces that the end of the world is coming.
• Your best friend is leaving for a different continent the next day for vacation. For everyone who has a flight and misses their best friend, next summer is going to be more difficult.
• Write about the worst summer vacation disaster.
• You just returned from the coolest trip of the summer.
• Your family has a problem with your summer vacation.
• Write about a bad or horrible summer vacation you had.
• Write about the day before summer vacation.
• Your party boat is coming in for landing.
• Write a one shot about a summer romance.
• Summer vacation is over and you have to prepare for a big test.
• Write about a summer vacation that never happened and the adventures you were going to have.
• Write about your family at the beginning of summer.
• Dreams of summer vacation
• Write about the first time you went on a family vacation.
• Write about a vacation you took without parents or guardians.
• Set a contemporary story in summer time.
• It is a day after your art camp and you’re reflecting on what happened.
• You’ve been invited to be a resident P.I. intern.
• The McAfee St. Louis Family Reunion is coming up and everyone will be there. Except your grandmother.
• During summer, everyone wants a tan. Write about your tanning experience.
• What would you do if your parents won the lottery?
• Describe a summer vacation memory from your childhood.
• The swimming pool in your backyard has a creature living beneath it. Write about what keeps you from telling anyone else.
• Write about what you did last summer… or maybe that’s a secret you’d rather keep…
• Write about a road trip.
• Your father is a famous musician and your family is superstar famous. He always gets to do whatever he wants. Your mom is always busy with her job. How do you stand out of the crowd as an Average Joe?
• You’re out somewhere late at night, when you run into something unexpected.
• Someone writes on your back and you have to rearrange the words to get the story.
• Write about how you plan your day so that you can spend every moment outside.
• Your entire family just got in a car accident and you were the only survivor. You had to stay in the hospital for the summer and now you have to write about it.
• It’s summer vacation and it just happens to be during monsoon season.
• Write about a summer vacation experience.
• A unique summer camp experience.
• Traveling Out of Town for the Summer 1) Write about the time you had to leave town for the summer. It can involve family, friends, pets, or be set anywhere in the world.
• Write about your exciting summer vacation.
• It is July 30th and you’re ready to head back to school.
• It’s summer vacation, time to go exploring!
• What are you going to do for summer vacation?
• Write a story about an unexpected road trip you took with your family.
• It’s your first summer vacation trip and you want it to be special.
• Write about the biggest decision you made during summer vacation.
• Write about when vacation is canceled due to someone’s job loss.
• Write about christmas vacation.
• The hottest day of the year happened in the worst week of vacation. Rules are you’re going to be home the entire time, there’s nothing to do, you’ve already been swimming and working out, and it’s still hot.
• It is time for summer vacation and you get to decide where you want to go. However, you aren’t exactly getting along with one of your family members and it is affecting your ability to travel.
• Write about swimming at the pool.
• Write about the worst family car trip ever.
• It’s summer vacation and you’re listening to your favorite song.
• How does the heat affect your vacation?
• Write a scene or a paper about your ideal summer vacation.
• It is summer vacation in northern Minnesota. It is too cold
• Write about a fight between parents during summer vacation.
• The perfect day to spend at the beach, but, all your friends are grounded.
• Make a list of 25 things you want to do on your summer vacation.
• A  teacher  writes a letter to a former student that she hopes will change her and her  family’s  lives forever.
• You are working hard in summer school to graduate early so you can get to vacation.
• Write about what your favorite summer vacation was or what you want your summer vacation to be.
• Write about a time you thought you got away with something, but later got discovered and were punished for it.
• You and a friend are house sitting at a cottage for the summer.
• You are working the 6 a.m. shift at a newspaper and find out a secret your town will never be the same.
• In this world of technology and gadgets, you’re on summer vacation without any of that.
• Write about the highlight of your summer vacation.
• It’s the end of summer, you’ve enjoyed yourself, but soon school will be here. Write about any thoughts you have of the end of summer.
• You have the opportunity to take a special trip for summer vacation. Where do you go and why?
• Write about a day at the beach.
• One day it’s summer and the next it’s winter.
• Write about a time your plans for the summer vacation were not what you expected.
• A bad storm has just come through and turned your house upside down.
• It is summer vacation time and you get to see your favorite band in concert.
• Make a list of the top ten things you want to do over summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation. No school, just you and your family… at the beach! Write about your day.
• Parents have to work over the summer, and a list of annoying summer camp rules has to be followed. What happens?
• There is a town that gets trapped beneath a giant acrylic domed structure and it is discovered that they freeze and thaw of each other.
• It’s the summer before Senior year and looking back it seems like things are going by too fast.
• It’s summer vacation. Your teacher is sick. What do you do?
• Summer vacation is almost over, but there is one little adventure that you and your two best friends must go on.
• Write about a time when you spent the summer with your grandmother.
• Write about an amazing dream you had during summer vacation.
• A love story set at summer camp.
• You make one new friend on vacation and take him to an amusement park.
• It is the weekend before summer vacation and your friends want to pull a prank on you.
• Write about going to a summer camp.
• Write about a boring summer vacation.
• Summer vacation has come to an end and all you can do is reluctantly go back to school.
• Write about any kind of travel you’ve had.
• Write about your greatest summer vacation disaster.
• Write about being stuck at the beach on Labor Day weekend.
• It’s hot, hot, hot and you’re having trouble getting to sleep at night.
• You are sailing across the Atlantic on a beautiful ship.
• It’s your first day of summer vacation and you can’t sleep!
• Write about a neighbor whose family goes on an annual summer vacation.
• Mara and Hamilton are having a summer fling when Hamilton’s mother finds out and tells Mara that she has to break up with Hamilton or leave her family.
• Summer vacation got cancelled because the family got in a bad car accident.
• Write about your worst vacation ever.
• Write about how you spend Christmas vacation.
• Write about your worst summer vacation
• It’s summer vacation and you’re worried about staying in shape.
• A family makes a cross-country trip across the USA in a motorhome during summer vacation.
• You’re visiting your aunt and uncle’s beach house for the summer. Bring along a family member of your choice.
• It is summer vacation and you are bored. You wish something exciting would happen.
• Your parents go on vacation again and forget you. Write about what you do and what you don’t tell them before they go.
• Write about a summer vacation you would take if you had a time machine.
• Write about a dark summer vacation.
• Write about the day the weather goes crazy and all the random chaos that follows.
• Write about a trip to a historic landmark at this time of year.
• Describing what your favorite time of year is.
• Write about a good summer vacation you know of.
• Write about a summer vacation you had with someone or something from your story.
• Write about the most adventurous thing you did over summer vacation.
• You’ve been invited to the beach with your parents for the week.
• In your novel, what kind of person goes on a summer vacation that will change them and their life irrevocably?
• Your best friend asks you to describe your worst summer.
• Throughout your entire summer vacation, your actions may mean the difference between saving Earth or letting it be destroyed.
• Write about a time during your vacation when someone made you ashamed of yourself.
• The family cat goes missing and the kid has to step up for the both of them.
• It is summer vacation and school just ended.
• Your boss has the summer off, but calls in sick for you. You improvise.
• Write about a summer pet sitting like in the Air Bud movies
• Write about a time when you were late for school or work because of a mosquito.
• Write about a crazy road trip you took.
• It’s summer vacation for you. The only problem is your boyfriend/girlfriend is away on their own summer vacation with family or friends where you’re not invited. How can you be with them or at least talk to them?
• Summer vacation is here and everything is going great until someone says something wrong.
• Have a favorite color? Take a bit of that color on a journey through your summer vacation.
• Describe the day when your previous summer vacation ended.
• It is the worst summer ever and the AC has gone out. Now your neighbors spread the rumor that you can’t survive the summer without air conditioning.
• How long does it take for the adventure to be over?
• Summer vacation is approved for release. Time to get started!
• Write a problem and solution story related to summer vacation.
• Write about how you’d feel if you were on summer vacation and tragedy struck.
• Describe all the things you did at summer camp.
• You just want to get away from it all, so you go to a cabin in the mountains.
• Write about how you deal with the summer heat.
• The summer vacation is over and now you have to go back to school. What do you want to be when you grow up?
• Your grandfather won the lottery and buys your family the nicest house to live in. Your mother then decides that instead of the boring regular summer, they’re going to do something special, and all you are expected to do is act normal. Which you fail at.
• A gotcha style play where someone gets a summer job that they weren’t expecting.
• Write about how you feel just before going on summer vacation.
• Summer vacation takes a really bad turn.
• You need to work your way through summer vacation, but don’t want to. Everything gets in your way.
• Write about your least favorite summer vacation you’ve ever been on.
• For months you have been working with your family to get ready for your sister or brother’s wedding. That weekend finally comes but much to your surprise, your best friend ends up walking down the aisle instead.
• Summer vacation has arrived and all the kids are bored. They find an old toy box full of old board games. The games have to be played and you are allowed to write about any game you want to.
• You have three wishes. What happens during the summer vacation when you use the last wish?
• Develop your Summer Vacations by Listing Out Your Three Must-Haves, One Must-Visit and One Must-Do.
• Write the details about a birthday party you went to over the summer.
• Write about the WORST summer vacation you can imagine.
• Summer vacation is unholy and the heat is just unbearable. You have to resort to some subversive acts.
• Write about a week in your life on your summer vacation.
• Write about the time when you had to go to summer camp THUS initiating your hatred of fun. OR when you decided to make the most of your days at the fun farm.
• Write about an exciting summer vacation you had.
• It is summer vacation and you have just moved to a new town. You venture to the nearest lake and find something unexpected there.
• It’s hot, hot, so hot! You are stuck outside in the summer heat and there’s no way to cool down. What do you do?
• Write a poem about warm weather.
• It’s summer and it’s hot outside. All you can think about is how much you want to be cooling down by the water.
• Write about the weirdest summer job you ever had.
• The day is a scorcher and there’s no air or water anywhere!
• It is the last week of Summer vacation. What will you do with the remaining time?
• Do you have to work on vacation? Write about it.
• A nurse friend is super rude to you because she thinks that you are still a medical mess. How do you approach this?…
• Write a scene with a car full of kids on their way to camp.
• Move to a new town.
• Write about the yearly family vacation.
• A competition is held just two weeks before the end of summer vacation. Each person throws ideas into a hat until all have stories written.
• A careless driver causes an accident while taking a summer vacation.
• Write an adventure story where the main character is on vacation with friends.
• Write about something good that happened during summer vacation you’ll never forget.
• Write about the day the summer heat followed you indoors.
• Summer vacation has turned out to be everything you hoped it could be.
• Explain that you witnessed an unwanted pregnancy in the summer.
• Summers here are crazy hot. What do you do to try to stay cool?
• You go to camp and learn a valuable lesson.
• It is Christmas Eve, in Summer
• Write about a summer vacation that ended in disaster for your character.
• A journal entry about a series of summer jobs – held by the same person.
• The summer heat is getting to you.
• Write a black comedy about horrible summer vacation events.
• Write about your worst summer vacation.
• It is the last day of school and summer vacation is almost here. You get stuck working with somebody you barely know. What do you do? You are on vacation and your grandad has died. Explain how you are feeling. It’s summer vacation. Start by describing what you are doing.
• What is the strangest and weirdest thing that ever happened to you during summer vacation?
• Write about your family going on summer vacation, something exciting happens there.
• You take a vacation to a place you have always dreamed of going to. You take a leap of faith and risk your safety. Write about it!
• Write about the oddest odd jobs you have had this summer.
• When you were in the past, what is your favorite summer vacation spot? What is it about that place that makes it a favorite?
• Dad responds to the question, “Do you remember your favorite summer of your childhood?” about you by recounting the terrors of your younger years.
• After school it’s time for – flip-cup.
• Explain an incident that occurred during the summer of your childhood that you will never forget. Condense the story to three sentences that highlight what was memorable about it.
• You’re on vacation with your family doing shore fishing. During the trip, you come across an incredible encounter.
• It is the last day of summer vacation but you won’t be going back to school.
• Write about a vacation you plan to take in the future.
• Write about the hottest day of your life.
• When your parents go out to dinner, they leave you home with an impossible task.
• This is the view from your apartment window.
• You have a heart breaker on your date but you’re stuck in bumper to bumper traffic.
• You’ve decided to make walking the dog your summer job.
• Describe someone you know well taking their first summer vacation.
• One day of summer vacation goes by with boredom.
• Your family doesn’t use technology/social media  because of your beliefs. Your parents now want you to use technology for school.
• It’s summer vacation. You really want to visit some relatives but end up making other plans in a new city. What do you do?
• A powerful dragon appears over the summer camp.
• It’s the summer between 7th and 8th grade.
• Write about a day on your favorite beach.
• It is summer vacation and kids run free.
• Write about summer vacation from another culture’s view.
• Summer vacation in your mind.
• Snowpea is going on summer vacation. She would like to bring a good book. Write about what she reads.
• Family leaves the pet home alone for the first time.
• During summer vacation, a mischief-making dragon terrorizes a town.
• A horrible storm hits just as you are on vacation.
• Write about a dream you had during the summer.
• An airplane crash in 1960s-era Hawaii leads Indiana Jones to an adventurous summer adventure.
• A rainstorm interrupts your summer vacation.
• You were on summer vacation and forgot to eat. You were just about to faint and collapse, but a stranger helped you. Explain the dream.
• It’s summer vacation and your family is traveling. Your parents want you kids to enjoy this break and have fun while learning something new.
• A group of friends come across a stranger in the woods while vacationing.
• It’s the first day of summer vacation. You’re not at home, but you’re not with all your friends either. Where are you?
• This list of writing prompts can help school students keep their mind fresh and positive during house construction.
• Write about a bad experience you had on vacation one year.
• Write about what you would do if you were stuck at the airport terminal during an intense storm.
• Describe a sunny day that was ruined by a storm.
• There’s a huge snowstorm on summer vacation.
• Write about your summer vacation when you were a child.
• An older sibling goes on a long awaited camping trip. He gets sick but no one will come out and get him.
• Write about a summer vacation that happened when you were young.
• Spend a day at summer camp.
• A zombie apocalypse is going on and you must save your family. You’ll need your goldfish to make a quick getaway.
• You have been gone for days on vacation and now you return.
• Write about the things your family and friends did on summer vacation.
• You are on summer vacation at your favorite place. You’re sitting on a beach, soaking in the sun. It’s warm and comfortable. You’re surrounded by friends. You don’t hear a sound, that is until…
• The ice cream truck stopped by.
• Here is the summer vacation you always dreamed of.
• Write about the best beach vacation ever!
• Describe a non-vacation summer day.
• You have just received part of your college rejection letter. What do you plan to do about finding the perfect summer vacation spot? Write about the plan.
• Something goes wrong and summer vacation ends early. Write about the ending of vacation.
• Bring your summer vacation to a close by writing it as if it were a cooking recipe.
• Your family decides to travel. While traveling, something happens to you that changes your life forever.
• Your best friend saves up her money to go on a trip to the Bahamas and invites you along…by mistake.
• Describe your average day at summer camp.
• Write about the weirdest summer vacation you’ve ever had.
• Julie’s family plans a vacation to some Scandinavian country for the summer. They don’t tell Julie about it ahead of time and instead notify her at the airport.
• A tornado hits and you have to seek shelter from the storm.
• Just before summer vacation, someone stole your swimsuit. How do you get it back? What does it look like? What was it like when you got it?
• A husband and wife travel on a road trip and face a terrible band of brothers in the middle of nowhere.
• You live in paradise but it’s hot and miserable. What do you do?
• Start off with the facts, then write about how you feel about the situation using your opinion, feelings, thoughts, etc.
• If you pick your school you friend group, you just might live a life of summer vacations. 17.
• What do you expect to experience during your childhood summer vacation?
• Write about your first summer vacation when you were nine years old.
• Write a scene taking place in a dream that happens during the summer.
• It is winter, and the snow has unexpectedly piled up. School is canceled. Write about your idea of fun during the winter.
• Summer vacation is over and you feel really nostalgic about it.
• Using a journal write about what you do on an average summer vacation.
• Write about a kid who is home alone or the only kid on vacation.
• Write about a summer-long episode of your favorite television show, novel, etc.
• Discovering your sibling’s diary by accident over the summer.
• Write about the day you caught yellow fever.
• The weather has been strange all summer.
• Interview a teenager for the school newspaper about their summer vacation.
• An entire family has to work in their summer vacations.
• It’s summer vacation and you have left your cell phone at home. When you realize your mistake, you’re halfway around the country. Write what happens.
• Write about a risky thing you would do during the summer if you got the opportunity.
• Summer vacation comes to an end all too soon.
• A family goes to England for summer vacation.
• A group of friends decided to throw an outdoor party on the last day of summer vacation, on the beach.
• You discover you have a summer job and your boss is not only a horrendous person, but also a liar.
• It’s summer vacation and a storm is happening outside.
• Write about a summer where it’s too hot to do anything.
• A person who usually doesn’t like to travel appreciates a trip he takes unexpectedly.
• Write about a week of your summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and you don’t want to be in your hometown.
• You are stuck inside by the heat and the only cool place is the fridge. What do you find there? And how do you keep cool while staying inside?
• It is another gorgeous summer vacation and you are stuck in your small hometown summer jobless and bored. Does it change your view of being at home for the summer? Write a letter to the editor to complain or make suggestions for how the city can welcome people if they could not be here when hurricane season is over.
• Write about a friend who is going away during summer vacation.
• Write a diary entry from the point of view of two brothers on the day before school starts. One brother is quite excited to go back to school while the other brother is dreading the experience.
• It’s summer vacation. Write about what you would be doing, working on, or every day.
• Write about your favorite restaurant from a previous summer.
• Write about a summer night when something strange happened.
• Summer vacation means…
• It is summer vacation and you’re scared to leave your house.
• Write about your best summer vacation.
• You unexpectedly meet an old flame on vacation.
• Write about your last summer. Whoever was there with you is gone or is not doing well. You have to do something to fix things, but that person is still not there with you. Write about your feelings during and after.
• Write a summer vacation interruption story.
• You decided to take a road trip cross country alone. Write about your trip experiences.
• Christmas Vacation
• Detention can wear down your mental state over time. Write about the craziest things people do while they are in detention.
• Summer vacation is coming up and you just have to figure out what you’re going to do.
• Write about a summer vacation you never want to end.
• Write about the first day of summer vacation.
• Write about a typical morning in summer vacation.
• You go on holiday to a remote location for summer vacation with your family. Something happens which leads to the beginning of a new mystery and you become a real life Nancy Drew.
• Take a “trip” to a place you’ve never been. Write a travel brochure using all the elements of persuasion.
• There has been a power outage, summer vacation has arrived, and now you and your family must pitch in together to get through on your summer vacation.
• You have a grand adventure planned for summer vacation, but mother nature isn’t cooperating.
• On summer vacation you are visited by an unlikely person.
• The last week of summer vacation. You’re exhausted from it all.
• Bill takes his kids on summer vacation. They run into trouble on the road. How does Bill deal with it?
• Free write about it.
• It’s the summer after high school and you have to do something with your life. Write about it.
• What would you do if you saw a boy at the beach you really didn’t like wearing nothing but swim trunks.
• A girl travels to Greece on summer vacation and meets a mysterious boy.
• A soccer game is disrupted by a monster that just won’t leave.
• The kids have all mixed up their sneakers and now they are taking turns in a footrace to put the right pair on.
• Write about a time you were almost eaten by a shark, or about a time you wished you were.
• Think of a place that you would like to visit one day.
• Write about visiting somewhere on vacation.
• Write about your first day of summer vacation.
• Your winter plans changed and you find yourself with a lot of extra summer vacation time. What happens next?
• Write about the funniest family vacation you’ve been on.
• It’s summer vacation and there is something in the news about a missing child. What if it is your cousin who is missing?
• You have the day off work and your friends are busy with their summer vacation.
• Write about bad luck. Write about good luck. Write a story about who gets what kind of luck in the end.
• Vacation time!
• What happens on summer vacation that is so crazy it has to be kept a secret?
• A group of friends goes off on a weekend road trip and causes trouble.
• Write about summer vacation memories from long ago. Start with your trip to Disneyland or your experience camping with relatives. They don’t have to be happy memories either.
• A family travels to Alaska for summer vacation and comes across a strange family.
• It’s summer vacation and your family is hiring countless amounts of tutors just so you can gain a college scholarship.
• Having trouble writing? Check out this page for writing exercises and prompts to get your creative juices flowing.
• You’re given a summer job. You can choose it or its location.
• Write about the worst day you’ve had during summer vacation.
• Write about the saddest vacation memory.
• Summer School vs. Summer vacation. Tell me about your summer school experience.
• Write about a summer vacation that takes place in a science fiction or fantasy world. It can be on another planet or a version of Earth in the future.
• Write about a paradise that turns into a place of trouble.
• Write about the last thing you do before leaving on summer vacation.
• It is summer vacation and it’s raining.
• Write about a family trip or day hike gone wrong.
• Write from the perspective of a disgruntled or excited teenager about how they are spending their summer vacation.
• Write about a vacation that you had to cancel last minute because of inclement weather and how your family got refunds.
• Write about a moment when you were wishing you could go on summer vacation.
• Write about a character wishing they were secretly off on summer vacation.
• Write about a family road trip.
• Write about a great way to enjoy a vacation.
• Your entire family goes on a yacht vacation. Disaster follows.
• You’re on your first job/career interview, and you discover something surprising is asked of you.
• Summer vacation and it’s your last fling before high school. Also, it is the last time you will see someone special.
• Write about the best and worst thing about summer vacation.
• You’ve decided to forget about stupid little things and celebrate summer for what it is.
• Write about your worst vacation.
• Your summer vacation is hard work but worth it for the reward.
• Write about your dream vacation place.
• Give us an essay on your best summer vacation memories.
• A person dies in a freak accident and goes to heaven and forgets what a vacation is.
• It is summer vacation and you are stuck at home while all of your friends are going on an extravagant vacation.
• A star player’s parents just got divorced and it seems that everything just went horrible this summer for the youth.
• You could choose to do more mundane things, but you decide to take on the challenge of writing the best short story you can.
• You never really knew how long summer vacation was until it was gone.
• Write about summer vacation from some other person’s point of view.
• What is your school holiday break like? Write a journal entry chronicling the excitement of the first vacation you or your family ever took together.
• Write about a famous summer vacation spot.
• It’s your summer vacation, your dreams have come true! After your vacation ends, your dream becomes your reality because of an unexpected development. Was it a good thing or bad thing?
• Your writing prompt is to write about going on vacation to somewhere you haven’t been to before.
• Write a brief note to the person sitting next to you on a plane. Make sure
• Summer vacation has begun and your family has headed to the beach. After a day in the sun, you play a little joke on your friend who’s thinking of joining the roller derby.
• The electricity is out all summer. Not being able to turn on the air conditioner or refrigerator makes life interesting.
• Write about a happy summer vacation memory.
• Write about the summer you moved away to the country and had to adjust to living in a place where you were not close to everything.
• Your summer vacation is going great until the littlest member of the family gets kidnapped by a super villain.
• It’s Christmas and because of the harsh winter your parents decide it’s too much to travel to see your family.
• Write about the first day of summer school and what you did on break.
• It’s summer vacation and you just got a new digital camera. Everything is awesome!
• It’s possible that effective storytellers always have such in
• Vacation at the lake gets interrupted when you see something unbelievable,
• You’re at a summer camp, but it’s not your typical camp. Map out the camp.
• On your summer vacation all the game consoles broke and will cost money to fix.
• During summer vacation, the parents of a family go out of town and leave the children home alone.
• It’s summer vacation at the beach. The water looks incredibly enticing. You’ve never gone swimming before…
• A mother takes her children on a hike and is injured. The children have to find a way to help.
• Write about what you think is the most difficult part of vacation.
• Let’s have a summer vacation where we actually leave the house.
• Write about a nightmare you had which “happens” to be your summer vacation.
• It is your third summer vacation at this resort and you love it. Suddenly the most important person to you isn’t going to be there next summer. Write about it.
• It is summer vacation and your mother says you have to babysit younger siblings.
• It’s Christmas Eve, summer vacation is almost over. Your child complains about how bored things are.
• Write about the perfect summer day.
• Summer vacation and you are sick for the first time.
• You had the worst summer vacation of your life. Write about it.
• It’s summer vacation. You want to write a war story, or something. Write a flash piece instead about a normal day, the end of the day, etc.
• Write about a summer vacation of a past family trip.
• Your summer vacation is cut tragically short as your house burns down late one summer afternoon.
• Someone gave you a time machine for summer vacation and you could travel anywhere in time. Where do you go?
• If you’re stuck in an airport for a long time, what do you do?
• Your boss wants volunteers to take a two-week vacation in his place. What do you do?
• You just graduated from high school and are eager to go to college. What do you do over the summer?
• A teenager is starting her first summer job.
• Write about the vacation destination you have always wanted to go to.
• Write about your first time on a plane.
• Day 1 – Write a poem about your first day of summer break.
• Write about something you did during a summer vacation that you wouldn’t do again but you will never forget.
• Write about a character with an odd summer vacation.
• The end of summer vacation is coming up and you have one day left. What do you do?
• Write about the worst summer vacation you can think of.
• What do you need to have in your beach kitty to enjoy the beach?
• Write about the panic of a late night phone call.
• You are on vacation with your family and you stumble upon someone you dislike very much.
• You’re overseas on vacation and find yourself in a risky situation.
• The family summer vacation was ruined by a natural disaster.
• Write about something you love that summer took away from you.
• Write a song about your summer vacation. How does it compare to one of your favorite vacation songs?
• Introduce a character that seems to be stuck in some oppressive environment with no escape.
• Write about your favorite place to go on vacation.
• Everyone is out hiking and having the time of their lives. Everyone except you.
• Write about a summer vacation you have planned. This could be real or a fantasy.
• In the trash can
• Pick a place you want to visit and use a summer vacation activity as a life choice.
• Write about a family vacation in a foreign country.
• Write about a summer vacation camping trip.
• Write about leaving your house on vacation.
• Write about a summer day down by the lake or beach.
• Your city is hosting the Olympics this summer.
• Write about spring fever, the feeling you get when you can’t wait to get out of school and have summer vacation.
• You’re on leave after college and trying to decide where to go on vacation.
• Write about meeting your favorite band.
• Write a short story about your favorite part of summer vacation.
• Write about your first summer as a teenager.
• Write about the many things your family does over the summer vacation.
• Your doorbell rings this summer. A note with a riddle is left behind. You must solve the riddle to find the location of a summer event.
• Summer vacation and every kid is going to the amusement park. Write about a character who is too short to ride any of the rides.
• It is summer vacation and you are staying home. However, you want to go places but can’t. What do you do?
• Write about the most exciting thing that ever happened to you during summer vacation.
• Facing Death
• Godzilla finds himself on the streets of New York during Summer Vacation.
• You’re on a summer-long search for a job.
• Write about a summer vacation with your boyfriend/girlfriend’s family.
• It is a long, hot summer. Your weekend plans just fell through and it seems like nothing is going right. What do you do to cope?
• It’s summer vacation and your mom cancels your plans and makes you guys spend it at the beach.
• A man or woman has been out with friends and they are very very drunk.
• Describe an object you would like to take on a summer vacation trip. Where do you go and what will you do with it?
• You wake up one morning in the middle of summer vacation and realize you drool in your sleep.
• Write about what you enjoy most about summer vacation
• It’s summer. You’re hot. You get up to go get a drink and you discover that your entire house has melted.
• A frustrated writer goes on a summer vacation with no plans to write. A week later they’ve written their best material ever. Explain.
• Describe a summer day from your perspective.
• Write about your favorite summer vacation food.
• Vacation reminds you that home has chores.
• You’ve had a conflict with a teacher and you have to work together to correct it.
• A typical day at summer camp.
• Write about your summer vacation when something was repeatedly happening.
• How was my recent vacation? The ups and downs…the funny stories, and the not so funny stories.
• Middle school students discover summer plans are canceled.
• The weather really rained on your summer vacation plans.
• It is the most boring summer summer ever.  All your friends got together and are leaving on an awesome trip and you are stuck at home. Now your summer sucks.
• A stranger offers your eleven-year-old the illicit drug of his choice. What will he choose?
• Write about a time you were forced to quit something.
• Based on the book Never Let Me Go, write about your summer vacation from your point of view.
• Write about a summer vacation gone very wrong, or very right.
• You’re at a beach watching the sunset and everything goes black.
• You rent a motorhome for your summer vacation. There’s nothing about the car to suggest it is haunted, is there?
• Write about an unfavourable vacation and something that makes you feel better about it.
• There is a big bind up of roads that lead to your vacation destination. Only thing is, they are all closed. You get stuck in traffic and your vacation is ruined. You’re sort of like green with envy. “Yes,” you think, “I would love for someone to do that to me!”
• You just moved to a new city and summer vacation is about to start. Write about your plans.
• Write about a summer vacation from your childhood.
• Write about a year in your life when vacation was the most important thing for part of it.
• Write about the best vacation you ever had.
• These first three stories occur over a long summer break, off and on. The last story occurs when summer is almost over and the narrator knows that school is starting the next day. In this story the summer is symbolized by a motorcycle.
• You get to take a trip to anywhere in the world you want!
• It’s vacation and mom wants to escape the heat. Have them go to the beach.
• It is summer vacation and you have decided to take a road trip through the west.
• Write about a day when it is taking forever to finish summer vacation.
• Write about a day at the beach during summer vacation. Essentially, this prompt is a huge gimmick since this article is clearly written for children FOR SUMMER VACATION.
• You finally get to go to Spain on vacation. While you are there, you find out the hotel you are staying in used to be a hospital for people with the Black Death.
• It is the summer before senior year and one student has to stay behind to work.
• A teenage girl from Spain is spending the summer in America with her grandparents. She has trouble adjusting to the new culture.
• Write about a summer event that affected everyone
• Write about a grandparent taking their grandchildren on vacation.
• Write about your worst summer vacation experience.
• Write about getting your summer job, or about working during the summer.
• You get picked out of a hat and you have to spend your summer vacation with someone you really don’t get along with.
• It is the worst summer ever because you have no money for a vacation, your neighbors are being audibly noisy and your best friend moved away.
• It is summer vacation time and here is your day…
• Summer vacation is over already and you were supposed to …… Do anything you are able to do about it.
• Write about your typical summer vacation.
• You always dreamed of going to summer camp and you finally get to go but it’s not what you expected.
• You are a flea. Write about your summer vacation.
• A long summer vacationing with your grandmother.
• Write about how the summer heat affects school.
• People aren’t playing as nice as they did before the school shootings. Write about that skyrocketing summer anxiety.
• It is probably every child’s nightmare…summer school.
• It is a buddy cop movie with two cops and one who is stuck at home for the summer.
• Summer vacation has been spent studying, now actually show your report to a teacher.
• Write about finding adventure on the summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and you are jogging. You see a stranger on the side of the road.
• A day during summer vacation.
• Write about what grandma will do and what grandpa will do during summer vacation.
• A summer day that begins like any other.
• Someone tries to “prank” you while you’re on vacation and things don’t go the way they planned.
• Write about a vacation gone wrong.
• Summer vacation is terrible! Research a topic of interest to create an entertaining essay.
• Hunger strikes – write a story about a survivor of the famines in Chad. Tell how they find water, food, and shelter.
• It’s the tenth summer anniversary of one of your friends and he or she begins reminiscing about the . . .
• It is 3 in the morning. A burglar breaks into your house.
• Write about yourself doing something strange on summer vacation.
• Tell the story of a vacation where either your flight, car broke down, a family emergency came up, or comparable incident.
• Every year people lock in deposits to vacation spots months in advance. This year they fail to do so and everything is booked. Write what happens next.
• Write a letter to the editor of your local paper about the impact of global warming.
• It is the hottest August in history.
• You’re facing the first day of summer vacation. You’re a little nervous about going back to school — what went on over the summer that you’d like to get into?
• It’s the last day of summer vacation and you forgot to have fun.
• You are visiting your grandparents in the mountains and something creepy finds you in the house.
• Write about something that happened to you as a kid during the summer time.
• Having kids is like summer vacation.
• The cat does not want to go outside.
• Your summer is filled with boredom.
• Write about the best vacation someone has ever been on.
• Write about your idea of an ideal summer vacation.
• The city or town you visited for summer vacation doesn’t go according to your plan.
• It’s the hottest day of the summer. Write about as much as you can about it.
• Write about a time you went to the beach with your family.
• Write about an unexpected guest who shows up at your summer vacation home.
• It is summer vacation. The weather really sucks. Write about how awesome it is to be inside playing video games or reading comics.
• Summer vacation moves really slowly.
• Every morning it rains and your family must stay indoors.
• It’s summer vacation and the whole school is on a trip to Istanbul. You find yourself squished next to a stranger on the plane. What happens next?
• Recently divorced, you decide to take a last-minute summer vacation by yourself. You stay in a hotel by yourself and experience something unexpected.
• Write about doing something you’ve never done before with a friend.
• You turn to find an unusual character following you.
• It is summer vacation and you are at a camp with your friends. You find out that the camp mysteriously is harboring someone.
• Your Christmas is ruined by a snowstorm in the middle of summer. Write about it.
• Having summer off school isn’t all that great. Facing the end of summer is harder than expected.
• You have just arrived at a vacation destination. Write about the first thing you see.
• You promised your little brother/sister that you would take them to a water park but things obviously changed. Where would you take them now?
• When you have enough power to charge your phone and nothing gets done
• Write about the strangest thing you have done on summer vacation.
• Before the summer vacation, you feel like a sidekick but after the summer vacation you feel like a superhero because of your experiences.
• Write about your uneventful summer vacation.
• Write a journal entry from your parents’ perspectives while on summer vacation.
• Write about going on a summer vacation.
• Write from the perspective of food.
• Write about a time when you lost your way.
• It’s summer vacation and it’s raining.
• Write a scene where someone experiences heatstroke and has a panic attack.
• Write about the worst summer vacation you ever had.
• A child’s family is having a reunion in the middle of summer vacation. The rest of the world hurries to get ready, but this family is ever ready to go.
• You’re a lonely kid visiting your grandparents’ house for the day. Explore your grandparents’,  your own feelings, or create a full story.
• Write about a summer cold or flu.
• Tell the story of an average summer vacation.
• It is the middle of summer vacation and the workers strike. You are stuck.
• Your high school Prom is in just a few days and you’re working on your big date. Everyone else wants to go to a concert that same weekend, making coming up with a solution difficult.
• Summer vacation is over. Your parents are driving you back to school when something goes horribly wrong.
• It’s summer and everyone is heading up to the mountains to camp, but you are not going anywhere. This is when you realize what a burden you are to the family.
• There’s a campfire going and your friends and family are telling stories. Tell one.
• Write a story using the two plot techniques given here.
• Three teens travel to Italy. Their life is about to change drastically.
• An unfortunate Boy Scout trip ends in death.
• It’s been raining for days and everyone is inside. Someone might have come inside but you’re not sure.
• You just discovered that the place you are staying has a ghost.
• It is summer vacation and a bunch of your friends come up with a great idea for a prank but will you go along with it?
• In summer vacation, your house catches on fire.
• Write about an Indian Summer.
• Dream journal with a focus on a specific event in summer vacation.
• Summer is here and your sister needs your help. Find out why.
• Your parents have a spat that ruins your summer plans.
• Write about the fear you felt when you were waiting for your summer vacation dates from school.
• You download the vacation app for your phone but you cannot access any information. Not even a single word. How can you live on vacation now?
• There’s a person in your neighborhood/city that is great at playing the guitar.
• A popular recording artist played your hometown this year and you are bummed, because you were hoping to see them in concert.
• You come across a message in a bottle while on vacation.
• Someone organizes a Treasure Hunt to celebrate summer vacation.
• Write about what your family does for summer vacation.
• On a trip to the museum discover a family secret that keeps you coming back every summer.
• There is no air conditioning in your home and the weather has been unbearable. How do you survive?
• What does summer vacation look like to kids today? What did it look like when you were a kid?
• Write about a lazy summer day.
• It is the first day of summer vacation and you’re trying to avoid the summer sun.
• It’s summer vacation and your parents are out of town.
• Write about a vacation you went on that ended in disaster.
• It is the hottest summer ever and the AC just went out. Talk about what you did to keep cool.
• Write about a day you forgot your umbrella and it starts raining.
• It’s summer vacation and as a family, you are in between homes. It’s super hot. You’re stranded at a hotel by the dusty interstate because of a snowstorm. The school inspectors suspect you aren’t from around there, but they can’t prove it. You’ll be kicked out of the hotel in a few days. What do you do?
• Write about your morning commute to school. It’s summer vacation and you’re still on the clock.
• It is your first summer vacation.
• Write about time-travel to summer vacation in the past and future.
• You go to the saloon in summer to rob it but your plans change when you see an old flame there.
• Write about a family spending a summer vacation – either real or imagined.
• What do you do during the summer vacation?
• Someone sees a ghost on their summer vacation.
• It’s the Fourth of July, but no one wants to visit the fireworks. For one reason or another.
• You head out to summer vacation with full expectations, but something goes terribly wrong and you’re forced to return home.
• What is a story that all people should take away from summer vacation?
• Write about the first summer vacation you remember.
• The police suspect you did something and have you in their interrogation room. Write about what you tell them. The police think you have information on a crime, but you don’t. They don’t believe you and beat you before you give them the answer. Write about the answer you tell them.
• On your last summer vacation you went deep sea fishing. The boat tipped over and now you are stuck in the middle of the ocean on a floating piece of wood. Describe your predicament or whatever predicament you come up with.
• Write about an unexpected item you needed on vacation.
• Summer vacation means four weeks of opposite-sex neighbor camp. The boy you secretly like is staying in the cabin right next door. What happens?
• Your parents use the money you saved over your winter vacation to buy a second car.
• It is the start of summer and all the stores have very few things left.
• You are stranded on a deserted island and forced to survive the summer.
• Write about your first summer developing a crush on another person.
• Your parents decide to send you to military school. Summer vacation is just around the corner, what would you do?
• It is the hottest summer ever and you just got fired.
• Write about the hottest summer ever and what you do about it.
• Two unpopular kids are on summer vacation and somehow don’t end up at the pool or beach like most low-status kids.
• There is a storm at night and you are home alone.
• Write about what you would do if you tried and failed to steal the school bell.
• Describe a perfect summer vacation.
• It is the most boring and frustrating summer vacation ever. But not until the very end of summer vacation. Now write about the amazing and action packed first day of summer vacation.
• It is a boring summer vacation and you worry that this is going to ruin your summer. Anything goes.
• Your child has a summer job.
• You go out of town for the summer and your house is robbed.
• Write about a summer vacation to another planet.
• Write about your first summer at summer camp.
• Write about your students going on summer vacation.
• Three friends are on the beach and find an urn.
• Describe a deserted island. Do you end up stranded?
• Write about your first year of summer vacation.
• You are on summer vacation. You are inspired and ready to write. But all the material is here. What do you do?
• So Much Paper, So Much Paper
• Write a story about what you don’t like about summer vacation.
• Your family wins a trip to the far side of the world, but only for one week.
• Write about a day you had on vacation.
• The water park has been the only place to cool down all summer long. Then, you discover, it’s been filled with the toxin that has been turning people into alligators!
• Imagine you get a summer job as a lifeguard and it starts to get hot. What happens?
• A teenager goes wild on summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and you’re with family on a vacation. Write the next day’s blog entry.
• Write about your worst vacation disaster.
• The hotel your family is staying in is haunted.
• Tell a story of a fun filled day at Disneyland
• A group of friends that normally don’t get along must spend summer break together. What happens?
• Does your holiday routine change when summer vacation arrives?
• It’s the most depressing day of the summer.
• Is your city or town famous for anything? What?
• Write about your first job.
• You are a queen. Your husband has just died, and your advisors have managed to convince you that the most sensible course of action is to remarry the most vile, repulsive man they can find. Summer rolls around, and you mount your horse to leave your summer palace to find a suitor. Who ____ decides to pursue you?
• Your family decides to get a seasonal job so you can afford that new swimming pool.
• It is Your Birthday and you would like to make a tribute blog about your life so far!
• Write a scene using all dialogue only.
• Describe the worst summer vacation experience you ever had.
• Write about a funny thing your sister or brother does or says when you are on vacation.
• Write about your favorite summer memory.
• Write about a time where you got severely sunburned while on vacation.
• The summer boredom has gotten to you. You have gone a little crazy and discovered something on your own.
• Write about a person who is having a hard time during summer vacation.
• Write about a summer vacation where it is sunny and fun every single day, something completely unexpected.
• You get locked out of your home during the hottest summer ever.
• You’ve just been informed that you get all summer off and an entire month of summer school from the teacher’s union. How do you spend the summer?
• You wake up one morning to find a creature in your bedroom. What is it? Where did it come from? How do you get rid of it?
• It is summer vacation and for some reason you are stuck inside.
• What kind of training do you do in your vacation days?
• You don’t Start the first writing prompt for the story. Write about how to start writing a short story. We will help you to start writing fiction. It’s an introduction to creative writing challenges.
• Write about the apocalypse happening on the first day of summer vacation.
• In the middle of summer vacation, you receive a phone call. Write about the plot of what happens over the summer vacation.
• A writer’s biggest fan vacations at the same location every summer. Write one of their letters.
• It’s summer vacation and you’re at summer camp. You happen upon something in the woods and it might just be the death of you.
• It’s the last day of school but you are determined to have the greatest summer vacation ever.
• Write about visiting international relatives that live in a country with a really hot climate.
• You’re given a tutor for the summer. Your parents didn’t tell you he’s silver and bigger than they are. Will you tell your parents about your tutor?
• Your favorite beach is slowly being covered by the rising tides due to global warming.
• Write about an argument you had with a sibling over the summer.
• Although it is summer vacation you have to work all the time.
• It is high school graduation day. Write about your friends preparing for high school graduation.
• A family summer vacation to the beach. It can be skit, or a play or even just dialogue. But this has to be the hottest time ever. One person must break out and use magic and all sorts of interesting things.
• During a summer vacation, a family stumbles across some unexpected friends.
• It is summer vacation and your parents have gone on a “blind date”. They get stuck with no telephone, and you need to call them. How do you do it?
• Write about a lazy summer afternoon.
• Write about something going on during summer vacation that was more exciting than you expected.
• It is the hottest day on record and everyone starts to argue with each other.
• It’s summer vacation and you run away. What happens?
• Beach Vacation
• Write about the first time you swam in the ocean.
• The story of a summer romance.
• The teacher goes on vacation for the whole month of June and just forgot to write the final essay.
• Write about your most miserable vacation ever.
• Write about your summer vacation immersed in Minecraft or similar video games.
• It is the best of times and the worst of times.
• Write about a kid who goes on the perfect spring break.
• You’ve been dreading your summer vacation for the last few years. This year you get to leave and go to your dream destination.
• It is parent-teacher night at your child’s kindergarten. You wake up the morning of it wearing explosive diarrhea as a result of eating bad seafood. Your wife chastises you for doing so as you need to wear khakis to the meeting tonight. What do you do?
• Text only or write?
• What do you do during summer vacation?
• Your best friend is coming to visit and they want to go on a hot date. What do you do?
• A very hot summer day.
• You are a police officer on summer vacation dealing with a particularly goofy case.
• What’s the most ____ thing you’ve ever done in the summer?
• A child describes their perfect summer vacation.
• Write about a community where everyone is required to do the same thing for summer vacation.
• A pool party.
• You’re a college student who has to work at a summer job. Write about your experiences.
• The family car breaks down in an unfamiliar town on summer vacation.
• You wake up at the beginning of summer vacation on the worst possible day for it.
• Your family wins a cruise! The best part is that you just get to stay in a suite for the whole time, and the worst part is that someone has to take over watch for pirates.
• Write about the best way to spend your summer vacation. What will you be doing? Will you be traveling or just staying at home?
• It’s summer vacation and your parents are fighting ALL the time. What do you do?
• Write about the last summer vacation you went on.
• At summer camp, what is the funniest thing that’s ever happened?
• Kids ignore all the risks and climb through an abandoned ventilation shaft fossil dig at the local museum.
• What do you do on summer break that relates to your writing?
• What are your plans for summer vacation?
• Write about a summer vacation that changes your life.
• You travel with your family to another country for summer vacation. The trip involves a bicycle tour through the desert. How do you get through this trip?
• You and your family have been invited to attend a two-week music festival in another country. You even get to sleep in different tents. What instrument do you play and how far do you go with your guitar?
• Write about a summer vacation gone wrong.
• It’s the summer before school begins and you have even less free time than usual. How do you occupy your time?
• Write about an unexpected end to your summer vacation.
• Someone you tossed pennies into a fountain for luck is now alive and sitting right beside you.
• During summer vacation, you got pushed into some water and almost drowned.
• What is your favorite place to spend summer vacation?
• Summer vacation finally comes.
• Write about something you learned on vacation as you wandered.
• Write a list of things you do to stay cool during the summer heat.
• Write a creative piece of dialogue about summer vacation.
• Your parents are ship-wrecked and are now stranded on a desert island. What do they do?
• Summer vacation is a great time for catching up on chores or doing some things you’ve wanted to do for a long time.
• A thunderstorm rolls in and the power goes out.
• Your favorite film/movie is being made into a musical. They are shooting it on your favorite beach. What do you do if you see the cameras rolling?
• You are planning the perfect summer vacation but your plans are ruined. Write about what happens.
• Write an empowering letter to a fictional or non-fictional character explaining how you want your summer vacation to go.
• John and Mary are searching for a hotel for the night.
• You’re fifteen-years-old. School starts in two weeks. What do you want to happen that summer?
• Write about a night in which a hailstorm threatens your summer vacation home.
• Write about the first date you had in the summer. Something you should never write about involves your summer vacation.
• Your parents want to get a divorce and you’re not sure how to react.
• It is your last summer vacation with your cousins. They’re moving away.
• People just cannot turn down free food.
• Parents leave for an International trip leaving you and your siblings. What do you do?
• You are at a theme park and one of your friends spots a ride that looks like fun. You do not want to ride it and you tell your friends. Why can’t you ride the ride?
• Write about an experience from summer vacation before you had children.
• A week at the beach means sun, surf and weird people.
• Write a story set during the fourth of July holiday weekend.
• The best summer of your life starts out wrong. Years later you’re thankful for it.
• Write a scene of a vacation to Germany.
• While on summer vacation, Alex is haunted by a dream.
• You move to the country for the summer.
• Your last day of summer vacation gets interrupted by the most peculiar visitor.
• Write about enjoying a wonderful summer day
• It’s summer vacation but none of your friends are around.
• Write about your family struggling to survive a summer without electricity. A summer-long power outage would cause people to express their true feelings for their loved ones.
• Summer vacation is coming up. The whole grade is celebrating
• Write about a time you got heatstroke.
• There is major traffic on the Cross Bronx Expressway. People leave their cars and hike out until they find a truck stop with AC.
• A character has to make summer vacation plans when one of their relatives unexpectedly arrives for the week including that relative.
• Winter Vacation Writing Prompts
• The air conditioning unit at a public pool has broken. It is really hot outside, it feels like one hundred degrees outside. The day is long and you are hot and sweaty.
• Write about the coolest summer vacation you ever had.
• A day at the beach takes a turn for the worse.
• Write about the most exciting thing you did on summer vacation.
• Write about getting into trouble over the summer.
• Write about the very first part of your vacation, then shift to the last part of your vacation. See if the ending differs.
• It’s July, mid-summer, and it’s the heat wave of the century.
• Write about the changing relationship between two characters during summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and your teacher hurries up to each of you to say goodbye and hopes you have fun.
• You and your mom go to a pool for a swim and get whacked by all the kids splashing around.
• It is your first summer living alone and you feel like it’s just not going well.
• You are a camp counselor for a rowdy inner-city youth full of gang members. What do you do?
• Write about your least favorite memory of summer vacation.
• It is the day of your favorite vacation. You took care of every last thing at home, packed your bag, and got everything ready. When you get to the airport, you find out your reservation is missing the destination you thought was Hawaii. It’s been mixed up with Ottawa. How do you handle this very important trip?
• The dog just had puppies and one of the puppies was hiding in your suitcase. The puppy pooped in your suitcase.
• Write an interesting story about a typical summer afternoon.
• Write a story about your experience with a sleepover.
• Your best childhood summer vacation memory and why it is your most prized summer vacation memory.
• It’s the end of the school year and all the girls are getting new clothes. The guys act like it doesn’t matter.
• It is the summer and anyone and/or anything is mobile.
• You went to summer camp and it is time to go home, the only problem is that you have been kicked out due to an unknown miracle. Write about it.
• It’s the hottest summer ever. You have been locked out of the hottest car ever.
• It’s summer vacation and you’ve been stuck inside a cave for the past 6 months. You’re finally free to go out in the sun but you can’t take off the blindfold and earplugs.
• Parents leave on vacation and leave kids a list of chores, but no one wants to do them.
• You’ll need cool, nomalicious summer vacation food. Write about your ideal one.
• Write about a terrible summer vacation.
• Write about a perfect summer morning.
• Write about the worst summer vacation ever or a time when you enjoyed not going on vacation.
• You find yourself trapped in a car in an endless summer traffic jam.
• Write about the most 5 star vacation you have ever been on.
• Describe a typical summer vacation day.
• You bust your neighbor sneaking into the pool during the night.
• Suzanne’s summer vacation turned out badly and she became famous.
• Tell us about a summer vacation that had a great beginning, but ended in disaster.
• You just moved to the Caribbean and it will be your first summer in a hot place.
• Write about summer vacation from the perspective of a camping trip.
• Write from the POV of a house pet that is alone all summer.
• Write about your summer vacation from last year. Write about it as if you are on vacation right now at the exact same moment last year.
• Consider making your summer vacation stranger than anything you could imagine.
• You’re set out on Thanksgiving to spend Thanksgiving alone.
• Fun in the sun is over and it is back to school. Write about what you did on summer vacation.
• Write about what you want to do about summer vacation so far.
• On a family vacation with your boyfriend and his parents, siblings and grandparents, you encounter a problem that requires unique talent to solve.
• Kids are supposed to stay within the confines of the bunk or cabin while on school group hike. Terrifying things happen as a result of this.
• Describe a busy, non-stop, out-of-control summer vacation.
• Write about what you should bring, do, or see while on summer vacation.
• Write about a time you went to college in the summer.
• A mutant and his searching for a way to save his home planet lands on the original mutant homeland.  He decides to return with a weapon.
• Your family pressures you to take vacation photos in order to use them for the next year’s Christmas cards.
• Write a story about your summer vacation.
• Write about the best summer job you ever had and why it was so good, and why you didn’t last.
• It’s the first day of summer vacation. You’ve written a will, made out a professional, & drawn up a list of your final affairs.
• You are on the other side of the world. Write about what you see.
• Write about your first time camping or on a summer vacation.
• Your summer vacation is over and you cannot believe it.
• Visit your favorite beach and create a song, video, or painting about the experience.
• Summer vacation is fast approaching. It’s been six months since you last saw your lover. Write about meeting up for vacation.
• Write about your first summer vacation on your own, away from your parents.
• A high school teacher finds out the secret that his students have been lying to him for years.
• Brave, strong, and sensible are all effective words. Curly, freckly, and sweet, however, need not apply. Which child is the misfit in the group?
• Everyone’s favorite summer vacation movie is “Jaws.”
• Write about a special summer your family spent.
• It is the hottest summer ever and the AC just went out. Your parents tell you that they won’t be able to afford air conditioning repair for the rest of the year and now you and your little sister need to find a way to stay cool.
• Describe a “perfect” summer  vacation.
• There’s the luxury cruise, and then there’s your family’s two week driving vacation. After meeting the rest of your extended family in California, where are you headed?
• It’s the last day before vacation is over, but someone forgot the sunscreen.
• Summer vacation has arrived and you are given a trip to explore space.
• How do you feel about summer vacation?
• Your best friend doesn’t move away, so you declare it “The Summer of George.”
• You have just had the most crowded and horrific experience on a plane of your life.
• Write about an important lesson you learned while vacationing.
• Lying on a beach and trying to write a novel.
• Write a story about the last day of summer vacation.
• You became famous overnight but one thing hasn’t changed and that’s your summer vacation plans.
• Have you ever wished you were somewhere else during summer vacation?
• Write about your hottest summer.
• Write about a time you had to work or do chores during the summer because adults pressured you to.
• You never wanted to travel during summer vacation, but this year your parents couldn’t agree on a vacation location, and now everyone in your family is at your house for the weekend.
• Write about getting caught in a rainstorm while on vacation.
• Write about the magical summer vacation you had that you wished would never end.
• A field trip to the beach turns disastrous.
• Families generalize family vacations- “It’s always the same.” However, for the first 24 hours everything is different.
• You are at summer camp. An emergency is occurring. What is it?
• There is a simmering war between the girls. Your best friend is in the middle.
• Write about the perfect beach vacation.
• Your father has a job that takes him out of the country for most of the summer.
• Your favorite television show just got cancelled. How will you react?
• You’re on the beach. The ocean is cool and the waves are high.
• Write about your favorite summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and you aren’t sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
• What is your idea of a perfect summer vacation?
• Write about your house being robbed while you’re on vacation.
• Write your own summer vacation.
• Summer vacation and you’re broke. How will you survive?
• It’s summer vacation and your friends visit the same beach you visited last summer. What do you do?
• Wake up on your first day of summer vacation. Where are your friends? What does everything look like?
• Describe a summer day of your life.
• Write about how your day is going at the beach/pool/park.
• Write about losing your things at the beach/park/beach camp.
• The kids take the family car and run off for a few days.
• A spaceship lands in your backyard. They need help repairing the spaceship and the rocket ship away.
• You’re a presenter and have to give a speech at your summer camp, but it turns out you slept through the most important meeting. How do I handle this?
• You and your mother just had your first fight as a result of broken curfew.
• Describe the last family vacation you took.
• Write about death by heat stroke.
• One of the characters in your story is struggling with a problem that is so consuming that you’re afraid that person is about to make a big mistake.
• Write about a summer vacation being ruined by something unexpected that goes wrong.
• Use the following list to write about an event that changes your life forever
• The temperature is at an all-time high, but your family plans to go out to the beach all day.
• Write about your favorite season plus summer. It could be fall, winter, spring or summer.
• What’s the best part about summer vacation and what’s the most fun thing about summer vacation?
• A family moves off the busy streets of New York City and onto quiet country roads.
• Write about how you spend your summer vacation.
• Write about a summer you remember, when everything went wrong.
• Summer vacation is awful because you keep getting in fights with your siblings. Write about a time that you yourself had a great time on vacation.  Write about your summer vacation. What did you do and what did you like the most? Describe a bad summer vacation that you remember. Write about a difficult experience that occurred on a vacation. What happened? What did you learn from the experience? Write about the worst tourist you have ever met. Write about the relaxing moments that you experienced during a summer vacation. What did you like about them? What did you experience?
• You are out for a day of boating with your family on summer vacation. It is a lovely day and the family has just finished building a sand castle. You go to set sail for home. But when you turn the engine the entire boat goes completely black. You flip the light switch. Still nothing. You search for your phone and also can’t find it. You can’t remember if you put it in the bin where you put your sunscreen. The next morning you discover you don’t have service and your family’s phones don’t have any battery. How will you get help?
• It is supposed to be summer vacation, but naturally everyone gets sick.
• Summer vacation is nearing an end and the freedom that comes with it is about to wane.
• Write about your favorite summer sport.
• The sun is shining, but there is a storm approaching.
• Your summer job is building houses, but you have nothing but time. What do you do?
• Family vacation gets cut short when the parent’s job takes them back to the city.
• Out for your morning run you witness a murder in an alley…then you wake up.
• Write about what you regret doing during your last summer vacation.
• Of course, you can always choose to make up your own subject, topic, and/or pronouns.
• Write about the adventures of your family this summer.
• Write about what happens if your hottest summer ever suddenly turns deadly.
• Describe your worst summer vacation…ever!
• Just because vacation is over doesn’t mean that it can’t be celebrated. What did you do during the end of your summer vacation?
• Describe a family vacation in summer. What did you do? Did some new love blossom? Why didn’t you make it to Yellowstone National Park? How did you ruin the vacation overreacting to something small? What did you do to make up for it?
• Write about a summer vacation survival guide
• Write about your parents and your summer vacations.
• You went on a summer vacation and you found a secret about your family which led you to an important decision.
• Island fever hits and they have to get home, but there are no flights until tomorrow.
• What would you do if you found yourself awake one night alone at home on summer vacation?
• Write about a summer vacation you don’t want to return from.
• Write about a family on a trek in Australia. A giant lizard attacks.
• Write about your ideal adventure.
• Your family travels to a foreign country. You’re just as excited as when you were little. The only problem is the country is not as welcoming as you’d like.
• You escape from the zombie apocalypse at summer camp.
• Summer vacation isn’t necessarily a good time for you. They’ve gotten much worse since you were a child.
• Describe the littlest thing inducing summer vacation nostalgia for you.
• Write about taking a family vacation where the children are the only ones who are excited about being there.
• Describe your summer vacation.
• Write about your life from June 1st through Labor Day of your junior year of college.
• Take your favorite stuffed toy/teddy bear/puppet on vacation. Where does he go? What does he do?
• During summer vacation, a normal summer day becomes anything but.
• Do you prefer school holidays or long summer vacation?
• It’s summer vacation. You’re most excited about this.
• Your husband has been transferred to Paris for three months and is asking you to go with him. You wouldn’t have to leave your children behind, but you would have to leave your family and friends. You get a call that you’re being transferred to Egypt for three months, but your children will stay behind and you must leave sooner than three months. You would have to leave it all behind. However, you wouldn’t have to leave your parents. So you are excited and hesitate because there is uncertainty involved. You must decide.
• You meet your favorite celebrity who offers to take you on an adventure!
• You’ve spent the majority of your vacation trying to reach someone, but to no avail.
• Whatever happens, enjoy the summer!
• Write about a favorite summer vacation memory from your childhood.
• It is the coldest summer ever and the heater just went out.
• Write about a horrible summer vacation.
• You spend the summer vacation trapped in a hotel room.
• Having to run the vacuum
• Summer vacation is around the corner and at the same time, people are losing hope because of the economic financial situation. How can you help lift people’s spirits up?
• Summer vacation, who-needs-it?
• Summer vacation is here and you’ve got the beach in your sights. You’d be happy, except for one problem. It’s not your beach.
• Write about a time when you had to do something for summer vacation.
• Before next summer, your parents tell you you have to study more and you’re only allowed to open your window to get fresh air. All of a sudden your other parent says you’re forbidden to open your window.
• It’s the beginning of summer vacation. What do you do on the first day? What happens on your last day? What does school feel like in between?
• A magazine comes to your house selling “discounted” summer vacation packages. What might be the catch?
• It’s summer time! Take a side job or go on a date.
• School lets out for summer vacation and while most people take it easy, you party even harder … but at what cost?
• A boy’s summer vacation ends worse than he anticipated.
• Summer vacation becomes a nightmare when your younger sibling continually follows you around.
• Pick any place and write about a normal day there.
• What if you had six months of summer vacation?
• Write what you’d write to a friend if they were forced to spend summer vacation with their parents.
• Write about what happens when someone tries to breach bedtime or curfew on summer vacation.
• It’s summer vacation and the vacation you were supposed to take didn’t happen last summer. Time for make-up.

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One of the worst things about being an adult is you can't take summers off from work (unless you're a teacher, I suppose). The last day of school before summer vacation was always brimming with possibilities. The seemingly endless days of summer stretched out before you like a sparkling river under a tire swing.

But even for adults, there's plenty of fun to be had in summer. And it's some of that magic we're tapping into with the summer writing prompts below. 

• How to make the most of the writing prompts.
• A list of writing prompts to choose from.
• Tips for vetting your story idea.

Table of contents

• Choose a Writing Skill to Strengthen
• Form a Writing Habit
• Disassemble Writer's Block
• Summer Writing Prompts
• Will Your Story Sell?

Tips for Using the Writing Prompts Below

Writing prompts have a great many uses. But like any tool, it helps to know how to use them for whatever it is you want to accomplish. The quick tips below are by no means mandatory, but they may be able to help you get the most out of these summer writing prompts. 

In On Writing by Stephen King, the Master of Horror talks about how the various aspects of writing are like tools in the writer's toolbox. Some you will naturally be proficient with, while others will require a bit more practice before you can master them. This is where writing prompts can be incredibly helpful. Choose one or more “tools” from the list below and then focus on it (or them) with a writing prompt.  

• Character Development – There's an art to crafting round characters and satisfying character arcs. By focusing on these aspects, you can strengthen these skills. 
• Action – Action scenes can be hard to write without confusing the reader. That's why practice makes perfect. 
• Point of View – There are nuances to understand when it comes to POV, so choosing one you're not necessarily comfortable with can help improve your use of POV. 
• Dialogue – Compelling dialogue is one of the hardest things to pull off. But if you work at it, you'll get better. 
• Show, Don't Tell – Showing how a character is feeling through their actions, mannerisms, dialogue, and the use of subtext can be hard to master, but it's certainly not impossible. 

It can be hard to write every day on a large project like a novel or a nonfiction book. But if there's one thing professional writers have in common, it's that they write every day—or at least regularly. Unfortunately, creating a writing habit is easier said than done. But by using writing prompts to get you excited to sit down at the computer every day, you can ingrain the habit in a matter of weeks. 

This is also a good way of getting warmed up to tackle your work in progress. By writing a few hundred words (or even just a paragraph) on a writing prompt, you can get the words flowing before moving on to your current work in progress. 

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If the words just don't want to come, a writing prompt could be the ticket through writer's block . By starting on a story that you're not as invested in, you can unleash your creativity and get back on track. 

The key here is to really let yourself get creative with the prompt. You may even want to go so far as to write in a completely different genre than your work in progress. If you're writing a romance, try instead doing a horror short story. If you're writing a gritty thriller, try a goofy mystery. Or forget all about genre and just go with stream-of-consciousness writing!

Boost your creative writing skills with these summer story prompts. 

1. Write about a whirlwind romance that only takes place over the summer months. 

2. Write a story in which a group of teenagers working at an amusement park must solve the murder of a mysterious Jane Doe that wound up dead in the food court. 

3. Write about a character who experiences a summer that's both the best and worst of their life. 

4. The world is about to end, and humanity collectively agrees to take the last summer off. What happens during the last months before the apocalypse?

5. Start your story with a child going missing from a summer camp. 

6. Set your story at a summer camp for adults. 

7. Write about a small group of students dreading summer break. Why do they fear it? What happens in their town during summer that is so frightful?

8. Explore the origins of a strange summer tradition one family practices every year. 

9. Think of your favorite summer memory and write a story in which a character experiences that for the first time. 

10. Write about a group of kids who have summer activities planned but they keep getting interrupted before they can enjoy them. 

11. Write about a character whose favorite thing about summer is the heat. 

12. It's the first day of summer vacation and a group of friends decides to run away from home to live in the woods. Explore this from the point of view of both the kids and their parents. 

13. Write about a crime that happens on July 4th during the fireworks display. The town's only detective—brand new to the area—has to solve the case. 

14. Write about a second-grade teacher who decides to hitchhike to Woodstock in the summer of 1969. 

15. Write a thriller story about a family on summer vacation when they're held hostage by two desperate criminals. 

16. Write a horror story about a hot summer day that just keeps getting hotter and hotter. How would people survive? What could they do to escape the heat?

17. Start your story with a young writer for the school newspaper witnessing a crime committed by the principal on the last day of the school year. 

18. See if you can convey the magic of summer fun with a story about kids without a care in the world trying to make the most out of their summer in small-town America. 

19. Begin your story with a character getting an anonymous note that says, “Contact me when summer starts.”

20. Write a story that takes place exclusively on the three major summer holidays: Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. 

21. Start your story with a water balloon fight that soon gets out of control. 

22. Write about a character who sets out to do 100 random acts of kindness during her summer. 

23. Pick a summer activity you love and write about characters doing that activity when they're interrupted by something completely unexpected. 

24. Write an acrostic poem about the joys of summer. These types of poems are great for creative thinking and expanding your vocabulary.  

25. Tell the story of a character's summer vacation through a series of their blog posts. This type of epistolary story is great for character development!

26. Set your story on a beach near a bonfire. A fight breaks out, and one of the fighters is your protagonist!

27. Write about two groups of kids with rival lemonade stands trying to outdo each other. 

28. Your protagonist gets a summer job at a local resort. But he soon finds out that something shady is going on at the resort, and he may have seen too much. 

29. A small town's summer festival goes awry when nearly all the attendees are drugged. When the dust settles, someone's dead. But who's to blame?

30. A group of once-tight-knit friends gets together after many years apart. The idea is to reconnect over the summer, but one member of the group has an ulterior motive. And it's not a nice one.

31. A group of strangers boards a small boat for a trip to a secluded island resort. But a summer storm lands these vacationing strangers on a deserted island. They must learn to work together—or pay the ultimate price.  

32. Your protagonist is a camp counselor at a summer camp that has been closed since some awful murders happened there. It soon becomes clear that something strange is happening again. . .

33. Write about three competitive friends who participate in a summer scavenger hunt that sends them all over New England. 

34. Write about a family staying at a cabin when the high temperatures and low moisture cause a forest fire. They must escape, but that's easier said than done. 

35. When a young girl is upended and moved across the country during the summer, she befriends an old woman who has been shunned by the town. What does she learn about herself and the world by starting this friendship?

I hope these writing prompts are to your liking! Whether you use one of the creative writing prompts as a story starter or a creative writing activity, the important thing is getting the words down. 

That said, I encourage you to use them however you like. While not every writer wants to sell their work, there are plenty who do. And if you're one of them, then it's a good idea to see if there's a niche audience for your story. This is easily done with Publisher Rocket . 

This tool can compress what would otherwise take hours of research on Amazon into just minutes, helping you identify ideal markets for your book. Once you find a niche market, it can help you position your book for success when you do publish. With Publisher Rocket, you get insights directly from Amazon on:

• Keywords – Metadata to position your book on Amazon.
• Competition – Allowing you to see what's selling and how stiff the competition is.
• Categories – So you know where people who are looking for books like yours go to find them.
• Amazon Ads – Helps you quickly configure a list of profitable keywords for running ads for your novel, novella, or short story collection.

Best of all, it’s easy to use and comes with quick little videos to get you started. Check out Publisher Rocket here .

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100 Summer Writing Prompts

by Holly Riddle

Itching for summer to arrive? Dreaming of warmer days? Or, maybe, you find yourself already in the heat of summer and you’ve got some extra time on your hands. Maybe you’re lounging by the swimming pool or you’re bored at your job. Maybe you’re trying to brush up on your creative writing skills before school starts.

If you’re trying to get some writing done this summer, but you’re not sure what you want to write about, you’ve come to the right place. Below, you’ll find a whopping 100 summer writing prompts to kickstart your creativity ranging from journaling prompts to poetry prompts, creative writing prompts to fiction and short story prompts. Whatever your preferred style, you’ll find something to inspire.

Summer journal prompts

1. What are your goals for this summer? Write them down and, more specifically, write down why those are your goals. What do you hope they give you? What inspired them? See where your words take you.

2. What is your all-time favorite summer memory from summers past? Write it down in as much detail as possible.

3. How do you imagine the beginning of your summer and the end of your summer will differ? Write it down and then look back later to see how right or wrong you were.

4. How does your life change during the summer? Do you live in a new location, change jobs, have more fun with friends, or just get outside more? How do these changes impact you on an emotional or mental level?

5. What is your favorite thing about summer? How could you take that fun thing you love and extend it forward to last the whole year? Brainstorm and write it down.

Summer poetry prompts

6. Explore a new-to-you form of poetry this summer. Find a poem in that style and then try writing your own version on the same topic.

7. Love setting writing goals or writing challenges for yourself? Challenge yourself to write one poem each day or week, with the poem reflecting something that happened that day or week.

8. How can you best bottle the feeling of summer in a poem? See what happens when you limit yourself to fewer words.

9. Personify summer as person in a poem.

10. Grab a piece of summer-related ephemera (think newspaper clippings, event flyers, etcetera) and make erasure poetry, blacking out text on the page to create a whole new work of art.

Summer holiday and event prompts

11. Memorial Day kicks off the summer season for many. Think about the meaning of Memorial Day and who you might remember. Write about them in a poem, short story, or essay.

12. Write a story that takes place at a July 4 event. Think a fireworks show, parade, beach festival, or baseball game.

13. Labor Day is the unofficial end of the summer season. What else in your life is ending at this time of year? Write about it.

14. Many families use the summer season to plan family reunions. Write about a family reunion that goes terribly, terribly wrong.

15. Now’s also the time for fairs and festivals. Write a short story that takes place at one of these events and make the setting crucial to the story, so that the plot couldn’t take place anywhere else.

Summer writing prompts about summer jobs

16. Even if you don’t have one right now, you likely had summer jobs at one point. Write a story set at your job, or a creative essay about an experience you had there.

17. One popular seasonal job? Working at a camp. Write a story set at a summer camp, but make it the coolest ever. Think a camp for royalty, for spies in training, or for cryptids.

18. Write a short story about someone who works at an ice cream parlor and why they either love or hate their job.

19. Write a short story about someone who wants a seasonal job, but can’t get one. What dramatic lengths will they go to in order to snag that interview or prove themselves worthy?

20. Write about what happens to summer workers in the winter. Where do the carnival workers go? What about the lifeguards?

Favorite summer memory prompts

21. Take your favorite seasonal memory and turn it into a short story, but make the main character absolutely hate everything you loved about that memory.

22. Remember your favorite place, favorite song, or favorite road trip from summers past? Write about it.

23. Write about your favorite seasonal memory but set it in the distant past. How would that memory have differed/looked if you’d lived in the 1800s or 1700s?

24. Take your memory and flip it on its head. Take the same cast of characters and events and make them the worst you could possibly imagine.

25. Imagine a favorite memory of the future. Pretend you’re writing as a 90-year-old. What might be your favorite memory then?

Summer destination prompts

26. Set a story at the ocean, sea, or a lake. Add in a sea monster if you want to get really creative.

27. Set a story at a campground filled with the most obnoxious tourists you’ve ever seen.

28. Write a story about someone trying desperately to get to a summer destination. Do they really need a vacation or are they fleeing something?

29. Write a story about a destination that no one would want to visit for summer vacation.

30. Imagine what your favorite summer destination might look like after the apocalypse and write about it.

School’s out writing prompts

31. Write a story from the point of view of a parent whose kids are out for the summer. Do they love it or hate it?

32. Write a story about a teacher who switches jobs during summer vacation—and they can never let any of their kids, parents or coworkers know what their summer job is.

33. Write a story about summer vacation from the point of view of a child’s bedroom. How is that space impacted?

34. Write about how you often felt as a child on the last day of the school year.

35. Write a letter to your children or future children about your favorite days with them over summer break.

Summer five senses writing prompts

36. Write a poem or personal essay about your favorite taste of summer.

37. Write a poem or personal essay about your favorite smell of summer.

38. Write a poem or personal essay about your favorite feeling or texture of summer.

39. Write a poem or personal essay about your favorite sight of summer.

40. Write a poem or personal essay about your favorite sound of summer.

Summer wildlife prompts

41. Write a scene about your least-favorite summer bug and what you might do if it invaded your house.

42. Write a story about what might happen to the summer wildlife and nature if summer never came.

43. Write a short story from the point of view of a bug that knows summer’s almost run its course. How do they spend their time?

44. Write a story about an animal with a summer job (think horses at a summer camp or petting zoo animals at the fair).

45. Write a poem about the sounds of summer wildlife that you might hear (ie, crickets chirping, deer munching grass in the morning, gulls at the ocean, etc.)

Summer plant life prompts

46. Write an ode to your favorite summer flower.

47. Write a story about mowing the grass, but from the point of view of the grass.

48. Write a story about gardening and make the normally low stakes of growing household produce incredibly high for your main character.

49. Write a scene about what the summer plant life would look like if humans weren’t around.

50. Write a personal essay about your own experiences with gardening. Are they good, bad, disastrous?

Summer hobbies writing prompts

51. Write a story about riding your bike and finding something life-changing along the way.

52. Write a story about swimming and finding something unusual in the water.

53. Write a story about a character who goes for a hike and gets lost.

54. Write a story about a parent who wants to get their children involved in their favorite hobbies over summer break. How successful are they?

55. Write a poem that tells your reader how to perform your favorite summer hobby.

Summer sports writing prompts

56. Describe a date that takes place at a baseball game, but neither of the people on the date like baseball.

57. Write a short story from the point of view of a character who’s decided to streak across the field at a baseball game.

58. Write a poem about a summer sport that you know nothing about. Try to describe it using your limited knowledge.

59. Write a story about a sailing team that gets blown off course.

60. Write a story about a fall or winter professional sports team that wants to play in the summer. What challenges do they come up against and are they successful?

Summer weather prompts

61. Write a poem about the summertime heat. How does it make you feel?

62. Write a personal essay about how the summer weather has changed since you were a child.

63. Write a scene or story that takes place in a house where the air conditioning just kicked the bucket on the hottest day of the year.

64. Write a short story that takes place in the middle of a hurricane—but the hurricane isn’t the most dangerous thing that your characters face.

65. Write a story about two tornado chasers that hate each other.

Summer foods writing prompts

66. Write a poem about the best summer meal that you ever ate.

67. Write a personal essay about how you might go about cooking a summer meal for your family and the significance of the foods you choose, the setting, etc.

68. Write a short story about a picnic that goes wrong.

69. Describe the ideal ice cream cone.

70. Write a story set in the future, about post-apocalyptic humans scavenging for food to create the perfect summer feast.

Wedding season writing prompts

71. Write a story from the point of view of a wedding officiant or planner working during the height of wedding season.

72. Compose a poem about the worst wedding you’ve ever been to.

73. Write a story about a wedding where none of the guests show up.

74. Describe a wedding from the point of view of the flower girl or the ring bearer.

75. Write a story about a wedding where the maid of honor loves the groom and the best man loves the bride, and the two team up together to ruin the wedding.

Summer wear writing prompts

76. Compose a poem about your favorite or least favorite summer outfit.

77. Write a short essay about your feelings surrounding summer wear. Do you feel confident in your swimsuit? Why or why not? Do you hate your legs in shorts? Do you love ditching your winter coat for the season?

78. Write a story about someone who accidentally glues their sunglasses onto their face.

79. Design a character who can’t feel temperature, so they’re not restricted to a normal seasonal wardrobe.

80. Write a story about someone who’s shopping for a swimsuit and falls in love in the process.

Summer nights prompts

81. Think about how your life changes with the lengthening days. Write a short essay about what you do with your extra daylight and how it does (or doesn’t) impact your life.

82. Write about the best summer night you’ve ever had.

83. Compose a poem that captures the feeling of a summer night right after the sun has set.

84. Write a story about a character who works nights during the summer. How do they view summer differently than the average person?

85. Write a story from the point of view of a character trying to sleep on an extremely hot night. Why are they frustrated beyond just being sweaty?

Dog days of summer writing prompts

86. Write a story from the point of view of a dog at a picnic or barbecue.

87. Write a story about a dog walker who loses a prized pooch in the park during their first day on the job.

88. Compose a poem about spending a summer day with your favorite dog.

89. Compose a poem or short story from the point of view of a dog cowering during Independence Day fireworks.

90. Think about how you might spend your summer days differently if you were a dog. Write about it.

Summer reading prompts

91. Did you ever participate in your library’s summer reading program as a kid? Write about the experience.

92. What’s the best beach book you’ve ever read? Journal about what made it stand out.

93. Think about your favorite book or movie. How might the plot be different if it was set in the dead of summer? Write some fan fiction showing how that might play out.

94. Write a story about someone reading a library book on the beach or a cruise ship and finds a secret message inside. What does it say?

95. Your character dropped their spouse’s prized original edition of their favorite book in the pool. What do they do now?

End of summer writing prompts

96. Reflect on how your summer went. Journal about what you wish you would have done differently, as well as your summertime successes.

97. Write a story about a character reflecting back on the best summer ever and their dread at the impending fall months.

98. Write from the point of view of a tree that’s starting to change as summer ends.

99. Compose a poem about the bittersweet end of summer.

100. Look ahead to the fall. What are your writing goals for the fall and winter? How will you use what you learned from the summer to achieve those goals? Journal about it.

Get into your writing groove this summer with one of these 100 summer writing prompts

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15 Summer Writing Prompts: Fun Ideas to Help You Write This Season [Free Printable Summer Writing Journal Pages Below]

The dog days of summer are soon upon us, and that means one thing: it’s time to get creative! If you’re looking for some fun ideas to help you write this season, look no further.

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I’ve put together a list of summer writing prompts that will help you explore your imagination and produce some great pieces of writing.

Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced writer, these prompts will provide you with the inspiration you need to create something truly special.

So what are you waiting for? Get started today!

Summer Writing Prompts

Here are your fun and creative summer writing prompts:

• Write about a summer vacation you took as a child.
• Describe a summer day, from dawn to dusk.
• Write about a summer romance, real or imagined.
• Create a character and write about their summer adventures.
• Write a short story that takes place over the course of one summer day.
• Brainstorm a list of summer activities and write about your favorite one.
• If you could have any summer job, what would it be?
• What does summertime mean to you?
• Describe a perfect summer day.
• Create a short story that takes place at the beach.
• Write a poem about the sound of waves crashing on the shore.
• Tell a tale of summer love.
• Share a memory of an unforgettable summer sunset.
• Write about someone you met while on vacation.
• What does the word “summer” mean to you?

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12 Summer Creative Writing Prompts To Get Your Kids Writing Over Summer

Summer holidays can be so exciting at first, with so many things to do and so many places to go. But as the weeks go by or even after a few days they can get a little boring! If you find your child getting bored, take a look at these 12 summer creative writing prompts to get your kids writing this summer. It is important to keep your child’s mind busy over the holidays with quick writing tasks to develop their creativity and writing skills. It is even more important to create a nice balance between work and time to relax. We don’t want to bore them with long writing assignments and we don’t want them sitting at their desks all day long. Therefore we encourage the child to go outside with a clipboard when trying out these summer creative writing prompts. And to work with their friends and family members to develop ideas and to write together.

Why not take part in our online summer writing challenge – New summer-related prompts are added daily!

Summer Creative Writing Prompts for Kids

• You find a messenge in a bottle washed up on a shore. What do you do?
• Create a bucket list of everything you want to achieve this summer holiday.
• We all heard the legend of mermaids and the loch ness monster. But can you write your own legend about a mysterious sea creature? Does this creature still exist? How did it once live? What happened to it?
• If summer was a person, who would it be? Describe their appearance, their personality and what would they like to do?
• You’re on the beach collecting seashells. You then hear a calm whisper from one of the seashells. It whispers, “Come, find me…” What do you do next?
• Keep a journal of everything you have done during your summer holidays. You can write in your journal daily or weekly. And write about your feelings, what you did, what made you happy, what made you sad and anything else. You can even include drawings and photographs.
• Write a limerick about the summer sun. Remember a limerick is a funny poem, which normally ends with a surprising ending. See our post on how to write a limerick.
• Feeling bored? Create a word cloud with as many words relating to summer. See the example of a summer word cloud below.
• Write a shape poem about the summer. Take a look at our Alice in the Wonderland inspired shape poetry for inspiration.
• Did you read anything interesting over the summer? Write a book review. What did you like about the book? What would you change? And out of 5 stars and how much would you rate it?
• Create your own newspaper company. Pretend you are the top reporter at this company and write articles about anything interesting you heard and saw around your town, on the TV or in a magazine. You can even release a new issue of your newspaper every week or every day!
• Start your own comic. Think of your main character and start designing away. Take a look at our tips for creating your first comic strip here .

For more summer writing ideas, see our mega list of over 72 summer writing prompts !

What are your thoughts on these summer prompts?

We hope these summer creative writing prompts encourage your children to get writing over the summer holidays. Do you have any more ideas for writing prompts for kids? Let us know your thoughts in the comment below.

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Summer Vacation Essay on English

Introduction.

Summer vacation is a time when students can relax and enjoy their free time. It is a time to catch up on rest, spend time with family and friends, and explore new hobbies or interests. For many students, summer vacation is also a time to continue learning and improving their English skills. This article will provide information about Essay on Summer Vacation, ways to spend Summer Vacation. Parents should encourage their children to read, write and practise speaking English during the summer break or take them for an outing to have fun and enjoy the sun.

Essay on Summer Vacation

Summer holidays have an important place in every person's life. especially in children's lives.

Summer is the hottest season of the year, children enjoy it very much. It is a very interesting and entertaining season for them as they get a chance to eat their favorite fruits and ice cream. They also enjoy long school closures during the summer holidays.

Summer vacation is an important time for children. This is a very happy time for them. During these holidays, children can do all that they are interested in. They have fun living with their parents, brothers and sisters through the holidays. Summer holidays are the happiest of students' lives. Because they got some rest from going to school for some time.

There are many other important things in summer vacations along with getting relief from the heat. After the exams are over, the students feel exhausted and are not interested in studying, hence, they need rest to improve their health and viability after a long year of study.

Everyone gets to learn something in the summer holidays, whether they are grown-ups or children. Everyone has their own way of celebrating the summer vacation, some like to go on a picnic with their family, some go to foreign countries and some go home and enjoy it.

Most of the girls like to play badminton, football etc. during summer vacation while boys like to play cricket in the open field. During the season there are many fruits which can be enjoyed only in summer. These fruits help to make the summer holiday more interesting, drinking fresh fruit juice and drinking fresh fruit in the body produces freshness in the body.

Everyone already plans something for the summer holidays. Especially kids start making new plans a few months in advance to make their summer holidays exciting. The summer holidays are a great relief for everyone, that's why everyone tries to make it memorable.

Ways of Spending Vacation

Some children make good use of leave by applying tutoring in their weak subject and make it better. Summer holidays become a summer fun for children who are happy when the last bell rings at school. Summer holidays become the happiest moments for children as they get a long break from the daily busy lives of school and school work. Some people go to the countryside for vacations or to visit some historical and recreational places. The time has come to get away from homework and be entertained by a good trip from home to the city, hill stations, and other quiet places to happily defeat the heat.

Benefits of Summer Vacation

The purpose of summer vacations is to give the students a little rest from the summer season. Excessive heat can cause a lot of damage, so summer vacation is the best option to study and give them a break from the heat and assist the children to recover in weaker subjects See you. Everyone usually has their own way of spending the summer vacation, but most people prefer to go to cold places. Summer vacation gives the students an opportunity to visit new places, increase their general knowledge, and get time for school project work.

Children get an opportunity to spend time with their family members as well as to understand and have fun with them.

Overall we can say that the summer vacation is very important for the complete development of all.

A Place to Visit During Summer Vacations

There are a number of destination options to visit and spend quality time with family. You can book your vacation ticket online via the reputed portals make my trip, via.com, go ibibo etc. some good place falls in: 

Kullu Manali

Munnar (Kerala)

Kodaikanal 

Mahabaleshwar

Above are a few options to choose your destination for summer vacation. It's good to spend special quality time with family and loved ones once a year apart from any workload.

Every child looks forward to the summer holidays as a time of rest and relaxation. Summer vacations provide an opportunity for children to catch up on schoolwork, visit new places and spend time with family members. Children can also improve their skills by taking tutoring classes during the summer break. There are many places to visit and enjoy during summer vacations. The most important thing is to enjoy and make the most of this time.

FAQs on Summer Vacation Essay for Students in English

1. How Can Parents Make Summer Vacation Enjoyable for Kids?

Parents should plan some fun activities and take their children to interesting places. They can also arrange for a tutor to help the child prepare for the next academic year. Parents should also ensure that the child gets plenty of rest. The summer vacation is usually quite long. Parents should plan activities that are suitable for all family members to ensure that they have a great time together. This will also help the parents to spend time with their children. Exploring new places and spending quality time with family is a good way of making the summer vacation memorable. This will make a positive impact on the child's academic performance when school resumes because the child will have had a good break with family and will, therefore, be ready to work harder and succeed academically.

2. Where Should One Go for Summer Vacations?

There are a number of places that one can visit for summer vacations. Some people prefer to go to the countryside, while others prefer to go to the city or visit hill stations. There are also a number of places in India that are worth visiting during the summer vacation. Some of these places include Kullu Manali, Shimla, Chandigarh, Darjeeling, Nainital, Munnar (Kerala), Ooty and Kodaikanal. These places offer a variety of activities that are perfect for summer vacations. They also offer a respite from the heat. People can enjoy sightseeing, trekking, boating, fishing and a lot more while enjoying their summer holidays. Doing physical activities in cooler climates is a good way to beat the heat and have some fun. Parents can also take their children to historical sites like museums, art galleries and zoos. All these places provide an interesting and educational experience for the whole family.

3. What Kind of Activities Can Children Do in Summer Vacation?

There are a number of fun activities that children can do during the summer vacation. These include going to the beach, swimming, playing games, visiting amusement parks, going for hikes and camping. Children can also read books, watch movies or play computer games. It is important for parents to ensure that their children get plenty of rest and exercise during the summer vacations in order to stay healthy. The activities will improve the child's physical and mental health. The child will also get to know his or her family members better and have some fun memories to cherish for a long time.

4. How Can We Make Summer Vacation Interesting for Kids?

There are a number of ways in which parents can make summer vacation interesting for their children. One way is to plan activities that are suitable for all family members. This will help the family to bond and have some fun together. Parents can also take their children to interesting places that offer a variety of activities. These places include theme parks, hill stations, beaches and historical sites. Children can also participate in summer camps that offer a variety of activities such as sports, arts and crafts, music and dance. These camps provide a lot of fun and learning opportunities for children. They also help the children to make new friends. These activities will help the children to stay active and have a great time during the summer vacation.

5. What Are the Advantages of Summer Camps?

Summer camps offer a variety of advantages for children. These include learning new things, making friends, developing skills and having fun. Children can learn new things such as how to swim, play a musical instrument or ride a bike at summer camps. They can also develop important skills such as teamwork, leadership and communication skills. Children can also have lots of fun playing a variety of games, doing arts and crafts or singing songs. In addition to learning new things and developing skills, children will also have the opportunity to meet other children from different backgrounds. This diversity will help them learn about different cultures and broaden their minds. Parents should encourage their children to participate in summer camps as it helps the child's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development.

6. Why Summer Vacation is Good for Students?

Summer Vacation is quite recreational activity for children, it gives them a break from regular routine i.e. homework, school, classwork etc. a kind of quality time spent with family rejuvenates children mind and make them fresh for further studies post vacations. In that case, both parents and children get a break from their busy life. This is why summer vacation is important and its really meant to celebrate by any means.

7. Importance of Summer Camps for Children?

summer camps enhance children inner traits so they can come forward to as a volunteer to perform. There are the modes to make them extrovert and make them socialize with others, during camping they explore new things, find adventure, also experience some basic home activities.

8. What Makes Summer Vacation Apart From Winter Vacation?

In summer vacation children have ample time to indulge in various activities of their choices, whereas in winter vacation there is no such options left.  During summer vacation you can plan for long holidays while in winter vacations because of the short span of time you can plan to move out of city as well.

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Travel Tales! Vacation Creative Writing Activity for Kids

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It’s already back to school season. Can you believe it?

Personally, I’ve had a wonderful summer break and I am not in any way ready to get back to class. I have a pretty strong hunch my kids feel the same way.

But, like it or not, summer is coming to an end. So, I thought it would be a little easier to get back to ELA with this easy  creative writing activity  about summer vacation!

We usually take a vacation each summer. This year, we went camping for the first time. And we didn’t die!

My kids had a lot to say about that trip, but I also wanted to encourage them all to  write about it, including my younger learners. 

This simple vacation-themed creative writing prompt is great, because it’s a bite-sized lesson. So if you have reluctant writers, they won’t be intimidated by it at all.

Read on to see how to get your copy for free! And, for more fun with ELA, don’t miss my Donut Colors Sentence Writing Activity !

To use this vacation creative writing activity, you’ll need the following: (This post contains affiliate links. For details, see our Disclosure Policy .)

• Printer (with ink)
• Child-safe scissors (optional)
• Colored pencils (optional)

This activity includes five pages of prompts: four with different colors and a line art version. 

I found it best to print it on cardstock, because I wanted kids to be able to cut out their finished writing and hang it up on the wall.

If you use the line art version, kids can color in the suitcase themselves!

Students can use this activity to describe their actual vacations or to write about places they’d like to go. And, since it’s evergreen, you can use it any time there’s a school break, including, fall, winter, and spring. 

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Where to watch movies for free in Moscow this summer

People watching a movie in a Pioner 24-hour open-air cinema in Gorky Park.

Temporary cinemas will be popping up across Moscow very soon, starting from July 16. All of the spots are brilliant examples of either constructivist or avant-garde architecture, so expect striking settings. A selection of classic Soviet films will be aired using cinematic equipment from the last century. All the screenings are free although online registration is required beforehand, while there will also be guided tours of the spaces, organized by the “Moscow through the Engineer's Eyes” company.

Registration will be open soon at mos-kino.ru

Bread factory

Following the success of former factories transformed into art spaces (VinZavod, Arma, Trekhgornaya manufacture), Khlebzavod (“bread factory”) No 9 is one newly opened joint that is attracting creative types from all over the city. The movie Time! Forward! will be screened in the building’s boiler room on July 16. It follows workers from the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, one of the largest steel companies in Russia, and is based on a novel by Soviet writer Valentin Kataev.

What’s more, Khlebzavod is a monument to constructivist architecture. Where better to watch such a film?

Novodmitrovskaya St. 1

Roof of the Narkomfin Building

The Narkomfin Building was originally designed to house high ranking employees at the Commissariat of Finance. It was built by architects Moisei Ginsburg and Ignaty Milinis. Also a fine example of constructivism, it’s currently in a state of disrepair, locked down, and fairly difficult to get into - which is like a red flag to a bull for more adventurous types.

However, on July 30 the place will be opened up and people will be welcomed onto the roof to watch the film Faith and Truth.

Novinsky Blvrd . 25b1

Khrushchyovka courtyard

A courtyard located in the 9th experimental block of the Novye Cheremushki district will turn into an outdoor cinema this summer. Cheremushki is the first district where Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchyov decided to build the iconic Khrushchyovka apartment blocks in the 1950s. As a result, thousands of Russians were given their own pads after decades living huddled together in communal apartments known as kommunalka .

Cheremushki is the adapted film-version of Dmitry Shostakovich’s operetta and will be shown here on Aug. 6. The organizers of the multiple screenings - the Moskino cinema chain - say they will revive the Soviet tradition of neighbors meeting in courtyards for a good old tongue wag. There will also be a guided tour of the block.

Address to be confirmed at mos-kino.ru

Pioneers Palace

If you want a slice of the postwar Soviet avant-garde style, head to the Pioneers Palace at Vorobyevy Gory. Pioneers Palaces were youth centers for sport, creativity, and hobbies for Young Pioneers (a communist organization for children) during the Soviet Union. There were dance classes, martial arts, drawing, and many other activities.

To Love a Man , a movie about two young architects building a new town in Siberia, will be shown here on Aug. 22. There will also be a lecture about building experiments in the 20th century.

Kosygina St. 17b2

A secret place

The last cinema venue remains a secret. On Aug. 27 there will be a screening, but at the moment no one knows where. Information will appear on mos-kino.ru but those who attend all four screenings above will be able to guess the last location.

A talk about architecture and Soviet history also will be hosted here.

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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Hands up if you’re ready to be dazzled! From a ceremony structure designed to float on water to a jaw-dropping reception room with flowers blooming from every service, we’re swooning over every bit of this wedding. If you can believe it, that’s just the beginning. Julia Kaptelova artfully shot every detail, like the ballet performance guests were treated to and snow falling from the ceiling for the first dance! Prepare to be amazed and take a visit to the full gallery .

From About You Decor … Our design is a symbol of dawn and a distant endless horizon. Ahead is a long, happy life without any borders. An international couple, Pavel and Cherry, met in London and have been walking together for many years.

From the Bride, Cherry… My husband and I we decided to have our summer wedding in Moscow because the city is where his roots are. As we knew we were going to have the other wedding ceremony in China, we wanted our Moscow one to be very personal and intimate. We’ve known each other since we were fourteen, together with many of our friends whom we’ve also known for a decade.

I didn’t want to walk down the aisle twice so the plausibility of my request quickly came into discussion. The open pontoon stage was constructed in order to facilitate the bridal entrance on water, although there were concerns about safety as the last thing we wanted was probably a drowned bride before she could get on stage, picture that! I have to say on that day it wasn’t easy to get on the pontoon stage from the boat, in my long gown and high heels. Luckily my bridesmaids still noticed even though they stood the furthest from me on the stage, and helped me out without prior rehearsal. My girls could just tell whenever I needed a hand or maybe they were just so used to my clumsiness. Who knows 😂

We all love our photographer Julia! She’s so talented and her style is so unique. Our beloved host Alex is exceptional who made everyone laugh and cry. It was truly a blessing to have so many kind and beautiful souls on our big day. Thank you all!

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Photography: Julia Kaptelova Photography | Wedding Planner: Caramel | Cake: Any Cake | Invitations: Inviteria | Rings: Harry Winston | Band: Menhouzen | Grooms attire: Ermenegildo Zegna | Wedding Venue: Elizaveta Panichkina | Bridesmaids’ dresses: Marchesa | Bridesmaids’ dresses: Alice McCall | Bride’s gown : Jaton Couture | Bride’s shoes: Manolo Blahnik | Decor : About you decor | Earrings: Damiani | Muah: Khvanaco Studio | Video: Artem Korchagin

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I’m still not convinced this Moscow wedding, captured to perfection by  Sonya Khegay , isn’t actually an inspiration session—it’s just  that breathtaking. From the beautiful Bride’s gorgeous lace wedding dress and flawless hair and makeup to the pretty pastel color palette and stunning ceremony and reception spaces, this wedding is almost too good to be true. Do yourself a favor and see it all in The Vault now!

From Sonya Khegay … It was the last day of April and still very cold in the morning. The weather forecast wasn’t pleasing and no one expected that the sun would come out, but miracles happen and light rain gave way to the warm rays.

I love how all the details went together, you could feel the harmony in everything throughout the entire wedding day from the morning until the fireworks.

A gentle look of the bride, elegant but so airy and unique decor, the fresh and light atmosphere of early spring and, of course, true happiness in the eyes. My heart becomes so warm from these memories, it is always a pleasure to see the birth of a new family of two loving hearts.

Photography: Sonya Khegay | Event Design: Latte Decor | Event Planning: Ajur Wedding | Floral Design: Blush Petals | Wedding Dress: La Sposa | Stationery: Special Invite | Bride's Shoes: Gianvito Rossi | Hair + Makeup: Natalie Yastrebova | Venue: Rodniki Hotel

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You really can’t go wrong with simple: a beautiful Bride , perfectly pretty petals , loved ones all around. But add in an amazing firework show  to cap off the night and simple just became downright extraordinary. Captured by Lena Elisseva , with assistance by  Katya Butenko , this rustic Russian celebration is simply fantastic. See it all in the Vault right here !

From Lena Eliseeva Photo …  This cozy and warm summer wedding of gorgeous Natalia and Anton was in the middle of June. The young couple decided to organize their wedding themselves, and the day was very personal and touching. I am absolutely in love with rustic outdoor weddings, and this one is my favourite because of the free and easy atmosphere.

All the decor excluding the bride’s bouquet was made by a team of ten friends of the bride and groom. And it was charming – a light and beautiful arch, eco-style polygraphy and succulents, candy-bar with caramel apples and berries – sweet joys of summer.

At the end of ceremony the guests tossed up white handkerchiefs embroidered by Natalia’s own hands.

The most touching moment was the happy eyes of the groom’s grandmother, the most estimable person on the wedding. And the fireworks were a bright end to that beautiful day.

Photography: LENA ELISEEVA PHOTO | Floral Design: Katerina Kazakova | Hair And Makeup: Svetlana Fischeva | Photography - Assistance: Katya Butenko

These photos from Lena Kozhina are so stunningly beautiful – as in you can’t help but stop and stare – it’s hard to believe it’s real life. But these pics are proof of this gorgeous Bride and her handsome Groom’s celebration at Moscow’s Fox Lodge , surrounded by vibrant colors and breathtaking blooms . Oh, and the idea of prepping for your Big Day outside in the sun ? Brilliant. See more bright ideas right here !

From Lena Kozhina … When we met with the couple for the first time, we immediately paid attention to Dima’s behavior towards Julia. There was a feeling of tenderness and awe, and we immediately wanted to recreate this atmosphere of love, care and warmth on their Big Day.

Later, when we had chosen a green meadow and an uncovered pavilion overlooking a lake as the project site, it only highlighted a light summer mood with colorful florals and a great number of natural woods. The name of the site is Fox Lodge and peach-orange color, as one of the Bride’s favorites, set the tone for the whole design – from the invitations, in which we used images of fox cubs to elements of serving guest tables and other decorative elements with the corresponding bright accents.

Photography: Lena Kozhina | Event Planning: Ajur Wedding | Wedding Dress: Rosa Clara | Shoes: Marc Jacobs | Catering: Fox Lodge | Makeup Artist: Elena Otrembskaya | Wedding Venue: Fox Lodge | Cake and Desserts: Yumbaker | Decor: Latte Decor

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