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Candy Writing Prompts

A wrapper to design, one piece left for three people, jars talking after dark, a bag to split fairly.

Candy Writing Prompts

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  1. Write about a candy jar that a family or a class shares, and the rule that keeps it from emptying in a day.Angle: one a day, one for a kindness, one for a finished job. Who checks?
  2. Design a lollipop with something written on the stick that can only be read when the candy is gone.Angle: a joke, a fortune, a dare. Write what three different sticks say.
  3. Write the fairest way to share a bag of candy between two people when the number of pieces is odd.Angle: split one, save one, give one away? Explain your rule so both sides agree.

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Invent a candy 15

  • A candy maker lets you name the new candy in the jar by the register. Write three names you turn down and the one you keep. Angle: say why each wrong name is wrong. The right one should sound the way the candy tastes.
  • A candy maker receives a complaint about a new candy. Write the complaint and the maker's reply. Angle: too chewy, too loud, turned my tongue green. The maker is proud of all three.
  • A candy you invented wins a prize. Write the speech, and thank the three failed batches by name. First line: To Batch One, which set like a brick: I learned the most from you.
  • Design a hard candy with a picture running through the middle, and write what the picture is. Angle: it shows at both ends and in every slice. A word, a face, a flower?
  • Design a lollipop with something written on the stick that can only be read when the candy is gone. Angle: a joke, a fortune, a dare. Write what three different sticks say.
  • Invent a candy and design its wrapper in words: the colors, the name and what the small print says. Angle: the small print is the best part. May cause humming, for one.
  • Invent a candy for someone who says they do not like candy. Angle: not too sweet, not too sticky. What would win them over, and what do you call it?
  • Invent a candy so sour that it needs a set of instructions. Write them. Angle: step one, sit down. Step two, warn the people near you. What is step five?
  • Invent a candy sold in a bag where no two pieces taste alike. Write the first three you unwrap. Angle: one you love, one you do not, one you cannot name. Do you risk a fourth?
  • Invent a candy that comes in two halves meant for two people. Write who gets your other half. Angle: the halves fit only each other. What happens when one half goes missing?
  • Invent a new Halloween candy that a whole street would be glad to find in the bowl. Angle: give it a shape, a wrapper and a name. What makes it better than the usual handful?
  • Letter the label for a jar of candy you invented, as if it stood on a shelf in an old shop. Angle: a name in curly letters, what it is meant to taste like, and a price by the scoop.
  • The wrapper of a candy you invented makes a sound of its own. Write the room where thirty are opened at once. First line: It began as a rustle and ended as an orchestra.
  • Write the story of how a candy got its shape: a star, a ring, a fish, a tiny bottle. Angle: someone chose it once. Invent who, and what they were looking at that day.
  • Your new candy is a different color on the inside. Write the bite that reveals it. Angle: nobody was told. Describe the outside, the crack, the surprise.

The last one in the bag 15

  • A wrapped candy has sat at the bottom of a coat pocket all winter. Write the spring day it is found. Angle: the wrapper is soft, the corners are rounded. Who dares?
  • Give the thoughts of the last candy in the bag, the one in the flavor nobody chose. First line: I have watched the reds go, and the oranges, and I am still here.
  • It is a week after Halloween and one candy is left in the bowl. Write why nobody has taken it. Angle: describe it without naming it. Every reader should know exactly which kind it is.
  • The last candy in the bag has lost its wrapper and picked up a bit of fluff. Write the decision. First line: I looked at it. It looked at me. We both knew.
  • The last candy in the bag is a flavor you have never tried. Write the unwrapping and the first taste. Angle: guess from the color before you taste. Were you right?
  • The last candy in the bag is your favorite kind, and your friend's favorite too. Write what you both say. Angle: each insists the other should have it. Neither means it.
  • Someone took the last candy and left only the wrapper, folded into a tiny boat. Write the investigation. Angle: who in the house folds wrappers? The detective is very sure and very wrong.
  • Tell the life story of your Halloween candy bag, from full on the first night to the last piece standing. Angle: what went first, what went slowly, and what is still in there in November.
  • There is one candy left in the bag and three people in the car. Write the next mile. Angle: nobody mentions it. Everybody knows. Who reaches first?
  • Which is the best candy to find last in a Halloween bag, and which is the worst? Write your ranking. Angle: name your top three and bottom three by kind, and defend the order.
  • Write a short poem to the last candy in the bag, thanking it for waiting. Angle: four lines. The last line is the sound of the wrapper.
  • Write about saving the last candy from a bag for a special day, and the day you finally unwrap it. Angle: where it is hidden, how often you check on it, and whether it was worth the wait.
  • Write an argument for why the last candy in the bag always tastes the best. Angle: or argue that the first one does. Pick a side and give three reasons.
  • You find one last candy at the bottom of a bag you thought was empty. Write the moment. Angle: the rattle, the search past the wrappers, the flavor it turns out to be.
  • You offer a friend the last candy in the bag, hoping they will say no. Write what happens when they say yes. First line: Oh, thanks, she said, and that was that.

A candy shop at night 15

  • A candy shop is closing for good tonight after many years. Write the last customer. Angle: what they buy, what they say about the first time they came in, and who turns the sign.
  • A candy shop keeps one jar on the highest shelf that nobody has ever bought from. Write the evening someone does. Angle: who asks for it, why tonight, and what the owner says as she fetches the ladder.
  • A child falls asleep in the back room of a candy shop while a parent closes up. Write the dream. Angle: the jars are taller, the scoop is a shovel, and the scale goes up to a ton.
  • A delivery reaches the candy shop before sunrise. Write the boxes, the driver and the list. Angle: open one box in words. What is inside, and where on the shelves does it go?
  • A mouse gets into a candy shop at night and cannot open a single wrapper. Write its hour. Angle: everything smells wonderful and nothing can be reached. What does it settle for?
  • At midnight the candies in the shop hold a meeting about which of them gets the front window. Write the vote. Angle: the lollipops want it for the height. The chocolates point out the sun.
  • The candy shop cat has the place to herself at night. Write her rounds. First line: She has never eaten one piece, and she guards them all.
  • The candy shop is locked and the lights are off. Write what the jars on the top shelf say to each other. First line: Another day and nobody chose us, said the licorice. Good, said the toffee.
  • Describe a candy shop at night through the window, by the light of one streetlamp. Angle: what shines, what is only a shape, and which jar you can still tell by its color.
  • It is the night before Halloween in a candy shop. Write what the shelves look like and what the owner is still doing. Angle: bags to fill, a window to finish, a sign to letter. What does she run out of?
  • List the sounds of a candy shop after closing, when nothing is supposed to be moving. Angle: a cooler humming, a lid that settles, hard candy shifting in a jar. Friendly, not spooky.
  • The owner of a candy shop counts the day's coins after closing. Write what she remembers about each sale. Angle: the child who paid in pennies, the man who bought one of everything, the exact change.
  • Someone slides a note under the door of the candy shop overnight. Write the note, and what the owner does in the morning. Angle: a request, a thank-you, or a coin taped to an apology.
  • Write a candy shop at night as the new clerk who has been trusted to lock up for the first time. Angle: the lids, the register, the lights, the door. Which did you forget, and when do you remember?
  • Write the night the power goes out in a candy shop and the chocolate has to be saved. Angle: who carries what to where, and which candies do not mind the warm at all.

How to share 15

  • A grown-up says the candy must be shared out equally. Write how equal is decided when every piece is a different size. Angle: by count, by weight, by favorite? Each way leaves someone grumbling.
  • Explain how to share candy with a little brother or sister who always counts. First line: She lines them up in two rows and checks the lengths.
  • Explain how to share candy with a new kid in class without making a show of it. Angle: hold out the bag and let them choose. What do you say, and what do you not say?
  • Explain how to share out Halloween candy after a night when one of you collected twice as much. Angle: one of you knocked on more doors. One of you carried the flashlight. What is fair?
  • Is it fair to keep the best candy for yourself and share the rest? Write your opinion. Angle: you did the work of collecting it. Does that settle it or not?
  • Someone gives you the candy they had been saving for themselves. Write what you say, and what you do with the wrapper afterward. Angle: say what kind it was and what else was going on that day. Why did it matter?
  • Write a how-to for unwrapping a candy in a quiet room and sharing it without a sound. Angle: the slow peel, the cough that covers the crinkle, the pass to the next seat.
  • Write a story in which one wrapped candy is passed along a whole row of people and nobody eats it. Angle: each has a reason to give it away. Where does it end up?
  • Write about a candy jar that a family or a class shares, and the rule that keeps it from emptying in a day. Angle: one a day, one for a kindness, one for a finished job. Who checks?
  • Write about a time you shared candy and wished you had not, or did not share and wished you had. Angle: tell it honestly. What would you do with the same bag today?
  • Write how to share one candy bar among four friends with no knife. Angle: who breaks it, who picks first, and what happens to the crumbs.
  • Write the fairest way to share a bag of candy between two people when the number of pieces is odd. Angle: split one, save one, give one away? Explain your rule so both sides agree.
  • Write the rules for trading Halloween candy so that both traders walk away happy. Angle: what is one big piece worth in small ones? Who decides, and can a trade be undone?
  • Write the speech you would give to persuade a friend to share their candy with you. Angle: flattery, a trade, a reminder of last week. Which works, and which is a little unfair?
  • You have a bag of mixed candy and everyone wants the same color. Write your plan for sharing it. Angle: turns, trades, or eyes closed? Say what you do when the reds run out.

How it works

Candy comes wrapped, and it comes in bags meant to be passed around. These candy writing prompts start there: with the crinkle, the count and the person holding the bag.

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A Halloween candy writing prompt for the day after

Seven prompts belong to Halloween, and they suit the first days of November, with the bag still on the table. Tell the bag's life story from full to the last piece standing. Set fair rules for a trade. Rank the best and worst kinds to find at the bottom.

Writing prompts about candy that has to be shared

Candy can be counted, which makes it a good subject for an argument on paper. The sharing prompts ask what is fair: an odd number between two people, one bar among four friends with no knife, a mixed bag in which everyone wants the same color.

  • Name a candy by what it does, sour, sticky, slow, and leave the wrapper's name out.
  • For the shop at night, pick one small sound and make the reader wait for it.

Questions and answers

What is a good candy writing prompt?

One with a decision in it. There is one candy left in the bag and three people in the car: write the next mile. Or invent a candy so sour that it needs a set of instructions, and write them.

Is there a writing prompt for best candy?

Two. One asks which candy is best to find last in a Halloween bag and which is worst, as a ranking to defend. The other argues that the last piece in any bag always tastes the best.

What can kids write about a candy shop?

The shop after closing: what the jars on the top shelf say to each other, the cat's rounds, a note slid under the door overnight, the new clerk locking up alone for the first time.

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