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Rainy Day Writing Prompts

A sentence to finish, a plan the rain changed, the sound on the roof, a puddle to step through.

Rainy Day Writing Prompts

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  1. On a rainy day my pet... Finish the sentence and write the pet's whole day indoors.Angle: where it sits, what it watches, how it asks to go out and changes its mind.
  2. A delivery rider works through a rainy day. Write three doors and what was behind each.Angle: a towel, a tip, a dog.
  3. Describe your town in the rain to someone who has only seen it in the sun.Angle: what shines, what empties, what changes color.

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Stuck indoors 15

  • A blanket fort is built on a rainy morning and becomes a country by lunchtime. Write its laws. First line: Law one: no shoes past the couch cushion border.
  • Follow one raindrop down a window pane from the top of the glass to the sill, and say what it passes. Angle: other drops, a reflection, a fly on the inside.
  • It has rained for three days. Write the fourth morning, when someone in the house has finally had enough. Angle: what they announce at breakfast, and who goes along with it.
  • Leave a note for a sunny day, explaining what it missed while it rained. First line: You should have seen us. We did not need you at all.
  • On a rainy day at school, recess is indoors. Write the twenty minutes. Angle: the games from the cupboard, the noise, the window everyone keeps checking.
  • On a rainy day I like to... Finish the sentence, then write the whole afternoon. Angle: say where you are sitting, what you can hear, and who else is home.
  • On a rainy day my pet... Finish the sentence and write the pet's whole day indoors. Angle: where it sits, what it watches, how it asks to go out and changes its mind.
  • On a rainy day the best room in the house is... Finish the sentence and defend your choice. Angle: the window, the chair, and what is within reach.
  • The plan was the park, and then it rained. Write what happened instead. Angle: the instead should turn out better than the plan, or much worse.
  • The rain cancels a birthday party in the yard. Write how eleven guests fit in a small kitchen. Angle: where the cake goes, where the coats go, who ends up under the table.
  • Two bored siblings and one rainy Saturday. Write the hour as a list of things they tried, in order. Angle: the list gets stranger as it goes.
  • Write a letter to the rain asking it to stop by a certain time, and give your reasons. First line: Dear Rain, I have a game at four.
  • Write a menu for a rainy day: three things to eat, and what each one is for. Angle: one to warm up, one to share, one to make the time pass.
  • Write about a rainy day at a grandparent's house, and the box that only comes out when it rains. Angle: what is in the box, and the story that comes with it.
  • Write the rules of a game invented on a rainy afternoon using only what is in the living room. Angle: the couch is one team's base. Decide what the rug is.

Out in it 15

  • A delivery rider works through a rainy day. Write three doors and what was behind each. Angle: a towel, a tip, a dog.
  • A dog who loves the rain walks an owner who does not. Write the walk. Angle: every lamp post takes twice as long today.
  • A rainy day at the beach, with the whole place to yourself. Write what you do with it. Angle: the sand is a different color. So is the sea.
  • Describe your town in the rain to someone who has only seen it in the sun. Angle: what shines, what empties, what changes color.
  • On a rainy day I put on my boots and... Finish the sentence and walk to the end of the street. Angle: three things you only see because you went out.
  • On a rainy day the air smells like... Finish the sentence three ways: before the rain, during it and after. Angle: say what each smell reminds you of.
  • On a rainy day the playground belongs to... Finish the sentence. It should not be a person. Angle: worms, ducks, or the slide itself.
  • On a rainy day the street lights come on early. Write the walk home under them. Angle: reflections, headlights, the color of the road.
  • One umbrella, two people, a long walk in the rain. Write whose shoulder gets wet and why. Angle: the taller one holds it. Or should.
  • The rain starts when you are farthest from any door. Write the run in sentences as short as your breath. First line: No coat. No hood. Six blocks.
  • Stand in the rain on purpose for one minute and write exactly what it felt like, from the top of your head to your socks. Angle: where the first drop landed, and where the cold got in.
  • Write a soccer game played in the rain from the point of view of the ball. First line: I weigh twice what I did at kickoff.
  • Write a walk to school in the rain as a list of everything that is wet. Angle: end with the one thing that stayed dry.
  • Write about a worm crossing a wet sidewalk in the rain as the great journey it is. First line: The other side was nine feet away, and the rain would not last.
  • Write the line outside the bakery in the rain: six people, one awning, a door that opens at seven. Angle: give each person one line, and let the rain have the last one.

The sound of rain 15

  • A baby falls asleep to the sound of rain, and a grandfather cannot. Write both rooms. Angle: the same rain, heard two ways.
  • A single drip from the gutter keeps time all through a rainy night. Write what it is counting. First line: Four hundred and six. Four hundred and seven.
  • Describe heavy rain to someone who cannot hear it, using only how it looks and feels. Angle: the bounce off the road, the weight on a hood.
  • Invent three new words for the sound of rain and use each in a sentence. Angle: one for light rain, one for heavy rain, one for the drip after it stops.
  • Lie in bed and listen to rain at night. Write only what you hear, in the order you hear it. Angle: the roof, the window, the drain, a car going by.
  • Make a poem about rain in which the lines get shorter as the rain lets up. Angle: the last line is one word.
  • On a rainy day my roof says... Finish the sentence and let the roof keep talking. Angle: it has opinions about the gutter.
  • The rain stops and it is suddenly quiet. Write the first sound that comes back. Angle: a bird, a door, a bicycle bell.
  • The rain taps on a window like someone who wants to come in. Write what it says when you open up. First line: "Finally," said the rain. "I have been knocking since two."
  • Record the rain in words for one minute: write down every sound, even the ones that are not rain. Angle: a clock, a kettle, your own pencil.
  • Write a conversation that has to be shouted over heavy rain on a tin roof. Angle: let them mishear each other twice.
  • Write rain as music: which instruments play, how it starts, where it gets loud. Angle: decide who is conducting.
  • Write the rain's own account of what it sounded like, landing on your street. First line: I hit the mailbox first. It rang.
  • Write the sound of rain from inside a parked car while you wait for someone. Angle: the wipers are off. What can you still see, and what can you only hear?
  • Write the sound of rain on five different roofs: tin, tile, tent, car and umbrella. Angle: a different word for each one. No word twice.

A puddle that leads somewhere 15

  • A duck knows which puddle leads somewhere and will not tell. Write how you get it out of the duck. Angle: bread does not work. Try asking nicely.
  • A puddle outside school is deeper than it looks. Write what the first kid to find out brings back. Angle: it fits in a coat pocket, and it is still wet.
  • A puddle shows tomorrow where today's reflection should be. Write what a kid sees in it on the way to school. Angle: something small. A different coat, a missing tooth.
  • A puddle that leads somewhere has a keeper. Write the keeper's job in a week with no rain. Angle: a watering can, a waiting list, a lot of complaints.
  • Describe the other side of a puddle using only things that are upside down. Angle: roofs, trees, a bird that seems to swim.
  • Every puddle on the street leads to a different place. Write the map a kid draws of them. Angle: the one by the mailbox, the one by the bus stop, the one nobody uses.
  • On a rainy day I jumped in the biggest puddle on my street and... Finish the story. Angle: the splash is the last normal thing that happens.
  • The puddle you came through is drying up, and you are still on the other side. Write the race back. Angle: how wide is it now? A door, a plate, a coin.
  • The rain ends and the last puddle is the only way back. Write the goodbye on the far side. Angle: who you are leaving, and what they give you to carry home.
  • The smallest puddle in the parking lot leads to the largest place. Write how you fit through. Angle: an ocean, a desert, a stadium on the far side.
  • Something climbs out of a puddle and asks for directions. Write the conversation. Angle: it is polite, it is lost, and it is dripping.
  • Write a postcard home from the place at the bottom of a puddle. First line: The weather here is upside down. Wish you were under.
  • Write the rules for traveling by puddle, as posted on a sign beside one. First line: One traveler at a time. Boots must be on. Be back before it dries.
  • You step in a puddle and keep going down. Write where you land. Angle: it is the place in the reflection, but one thing in it is not the same.
  • Your little brother went through the puddle first. Write going after him. Angle: what you take with you, and what he is doing when you find him.

How it works

These writing prompts for rainy days take the wet day from both sides of the window: the canceled plan and what happened instead, the walk in it, the noise on the roof. Ten start with On a rainy day.

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Rain writing prompts for the ear

Fifteen prompts are about the sound of rain: rain on five different roofs with a different word for each, a drip from the gutter that keeps time all night, three new words to invent for light rain, heavy rain and the drip after it stops.

A puddle that leads somewhere

The last group is make-believe. A writer steps into a puddle and keeps going down, and the prompts ask for what follows: the rules posted beside the puddle, a postcard from the bottom, the race back before it dries.

  • With a sentence to finish, finish it fast. Then ask yourself why, and keep writing.

Questions and answers

What is the on a rainy day writing prompt?

A sentence starter: On a rainy day I like to... The writer finishes it and keeps going. Ten prompts open that way, each with a different ending to reach for: the best room in the house, what the roof says, who the playground belongs to.

What are good writing prompts about rain itself?

Ones that pick a single thing rain does. Follow one drop down a window pane and say what it passes. Write a soccer game in the rain as the ball. Describe heavy rain to someone who cannot hear it.

Is there a rainy day writing prompt for indoor recess?

Yes. One prompt is indoor recess itself: twenty minutes, the games from the cupboard and the window everyone keeps checking. Most of the others need only paper and a view of the rain.

Are these rainy day writing prompts for kids?

Yes. The trouble on the page is a canceled party, a long wait or a wet sock, and every puddle that leads somewhere has a way back.

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