60 prompts
Checked October 2026

Snowglobe Writing Prompt

Wake up inside the glass, meet the tiny town, plan your own globe, then hold on for the shake.

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Write the phone call you would make from inside a snow globe if your phone had one bar of signal.Angle: who you call, what they think the echo is, and how you prove where you are.
Write the message you would stamp into the snow from inside a snow globe for someone outside to read.Angle: there is room for four words. Choose them, then write what happens when they are read.
Write a letter persuading a toy shop to sell the snow globe you designed.Angle: say who would buy it, where it would sit in the window and what it should cost.

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Trapped inside 15

Describe the snow inside a snow globe when you are the one standing in it: its taste, its sound, its cold. Angle: it is not real snow. Decide what it is, and say how you can tell.
Make a list of ten rules for living inside a snow globe, then write the day you break one. Angle: rule one is about the shaking. Rule ten is the one that matters.
Tell the story of a day stuck in a snow globe in three sentences: morning, shake, night. Angle: each sentence has to do the work of a chapter.
Trapped in a snow globe, you learn that the tiny skater on the pond has been here for years; write what she tells you. First line: You get used to the shaking, she said. You never get used to the quiet.
Trapped inside a snow globe, you find a small door in the base; write what is under the floor. Angle: a key, a spring, a tune wound tight. Decide whether it is a way out.

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Trapped inside, continued

Would you rather be trapped in a snow globe for a day, or be the one outside who cannot get in to help? Give your reasons. Angle: an opinion needs a because. Give three.
Write a letter from inside a snow globe to the person who owns it, asking for one thing. First line: Dear giant, please stop putting me next to the window at noon.
Write the message you would stamp into the snow from inside a snow globe for someone outside to read. Angle: there is room for four words. Choose them, then write what happens when they are read.
Write the phone call you would make from inside a snow globe if your phone had one bar of signal. Angle: who you call, what they think the echo is, and how you prove where you are.
Write the steps for getting out of a snow globe, for someone who is stuck in one right now. Angle: number the steps. The last one should be the step nobody would guess.
Write three diary entries from a week trapped in a snow globe: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Angle: the weather is the same each day. Let your mood be what changes.
You are stuck in a snow globe and can see your own bedroom through the glass; write what you notice from in there. Angle: everything is huge and bent. Start with the thing you never look at.
You are stuck in a snow globe on a store shelf, waiting to be chosen; write the shoppers as you see them. Angle: a nose, a mitten, a price sticker blocking half the view.
You are trapped in a snow globe with one other person; write how you divide the jobs. Angle: someone has to clear the path every time the snow settles.
You wake up trapped inside a snow globe on a shelf; write the first five minutes. First line: The sky was curved, and somebody had left a thumbprint on it.

The town in the glass 15

A dog in the snow globe town is the only one who can feel a shake coming; write the minute before. Angle: ears first, then the barking, then everyone holding on to something.
A second house appears in the snow globe town overnight; write the first knock on its door. Angle: who goes, what they carry as a gift, and who opens.
The baker in a snow globe town opens before dawn; write the morning the flour and the snow get mixed up. First line: The first loaf was lighter than usual, and colder.
The children of a snow globe town have a school; write their lesson about the Outside. Angle: what the teacher gets right, what she gets wrong, the question nobody can answer.
Compare a snow globe town in summer, when the globe sits in a box, with the same town in December on the mantel. Angle: dark and quiet on one side, lights and faces on the other.
Describe a snow globe town from above, as the last flake to land sees it on the way down. Angle: roofs first, then the path, then the one footprint.
Describe the clock tower at the center of a snow globe town as its oldest resident would. Angle: it has never told the right time, and nobody minds.
The people of a snow globe town believe the glass is the edge of the world; write the day one of them touches it. First line: It was colder than she had been told, and it hummed.
Who is the mayor of the town in the snow globe, and what was promised at the last election? Angle: every promise is about snow. One of them has been kept.
Write a guide to the town inside a snow globe for someone who has just arrived: the one street, the one shop, the one rule. Angle: keep it short enough to read before the next shake.
Write a postcard home from a visit to the town inside a snow globe, with the three sights worth seeing. Angle: all three are within twenty steps of each other. Say which is best after a shake.
Write the front page of the newspaper in a snow globe town on a day when nothing was shaken. Angle: a headline, a lost-and-found notice and one letter of complaint.
Write the rules of a winter game that works only in a snow globe town, where the snow goes up before it comes down. Angle: name the game, the teams and how a point is scored.
Write the town song of a snow globe village: four lines, to be sung while the snow comes down. Angle: the last word of each line should be something that falls.
Write the weather forecast for a town inside a snow globe, where every day is the same until it is not. First line: Calm, with a chance of everything at about four o'clock.

If I made my own 15

Describe the snow globe you would make to remember this year, and the one you would have made a year ago. Angle: what moved in, what moved out, what stayed in the middle.
Design a snow globe for a season that is not winter, and write the advertisement for it. Angle: a spring globe, a summer one. Say what swirls when it is shaken.
Design a snow globe of the place where you live, and write which three things had to be left out to make it fit. Angle: what is left is what matters most to you. Say why.
Design a snow globe of your school and write the speech for the day it is shown to everyone. Angle: say what stands in the middle and who argued for it.
If I lived in a snow globe I had made myself, the first room I would add is... Finish the thought, then write a day in that room. First line: I built the library before I built the roof.
If you made a snow globe of your best day, which single moment would be held in the glass? Angle: one moment, not the whole day. Say who is in it and what their hands are doing.
If you made your own snow globe, what scene would be inside? Describe it so well that someone else could build it. Angle: start with the ground, then the largest thing, then the smallest.
Invent a snow globe that plays a sound and not a tune when it is wound up; describe the sound and where it comes from. Angle: a kettle, a train far off, somebody laughing in the next room.
Make a snow globe in words for someone you love; write what is inside and what you hope they see in it. Angle: one thing in it should be a joke only the two of you understand.
Only five things fit in the snow globe you are making; list them and give each one a sentence of reasons. Angle: the fifth thing is the hard one. Say what almost got in.
Write a letter persuading a toy shop to sell the snow globe you designed. Angle: say who would buy it, where it would sit in the window and what it should cost.
Write a poem about a snow globe you would make, in which each line adds one thing to the scene. Angle: put the snow in last, and give it the longest line.
Write the label for the bottom of a snow globe you invented: its name, what it shows and one warning. First line: Do not shake after bedtime. The residents need their sleep.
Write the steps for making a snow globe the way you imagine a workshop does it: first, next, then, last. Angle: you may invent the tools. The order still has to make sense.
Your own snow globe has something other than snow in it; say what falls, and why you chose it. Angle: leaves, stars, feathers, letters of the alphabet. Describe how it lands.

Someone shakes it 15

A baby shakes the snow globe at the same time every morning; write how the town inside plans around it. Angle: shutters, ropes, a bell. Then the day the baby sleeps late.
A puppy's tail sweeps the snow globe off a low table and onto a cushion; write the fall as the town inside lives it. Angle: nothing breaks. Say what is different about the town afterward.
A snow globe is shaken at midnight on the last night of the year; write what each person inside wishes for as the snow comes down. Angle: three wishes, three people. One wish is for the hand outside.
After a shake, the snow in the snow globe settles into a shape that looks like a word; write what the town thinks it says. Angle: half the town reads it one way, half the other.
Describe one shake of a snow globe in slow motion, from the first tilt to the last flake that lands. Angle: use the present tense, and stretch one second across a paragraph.
Describe the minute after a snow globe is shaken, when the last flakes are still deciding where to land. Angle: what moved, what stayed put, and who is first to open a door.
During a shake of the snow globe, something lost for years comes loose and floats past; write what it is and who it belongs to. Angle: a mitten, a letter, a key. Someone has been looking for it.
Nobody has shaken the snow globe for a year; write how the people inside feel about that. Angle: most are relieved. One of them misses it.
Someone picks up the snow globe and shakes it; write the next ten seconds for the people inside. First line: The floor went first. Then the sky came down in pieces.
Someone shakes the snow globe and this time the snow does not fall at all; write what the people inside do about it. Angle: it hangs where it is. Somebody has to decide whether to wait or to climb.
Tell one shake of a snow globe twice: once as the hand that shakes it, once as the house inside. Angle: two short paragraphs. Only one of them knows it is a game.
Write a speech by someone who lives in a snow globe, asking the owner to shake it more often, or never again. Angle: pick a side and keep to it. Say what a good shake is for.
Write the apology of a child who shook a snow globe too hard, addressed to the people who live in it. First line: I did not know you were in there. I know that is not an excuse.
Write the notice that the people inside would post for whoever shakes the snow globe. First line: Gently. Twice at most. Never before breakfast.
Write the shake of a snow globe as a live weather report from inside it. Angle: the reporter is holding on to a lamppost and will not stop talking.

How this list was compiled: Original list written for Draw This Next on 2026-10-15: 60 snow globe writing prompts in four groups of 15 (Trapped inside; The town in the glass; If I made my own; Someone shakes it). Each prompt is one thing to write; the line under it gives an angle or a first line. The prompts and first lines are our own, though the idea of waking up inside a snow globe is a classroom standby that nobody owns. The list states no outside fact: the towns, mayors, bakers and owners are made up, and no real maker, shop, film or book is named. Written for children: nothing breaks and nobody is hurt in a prompt, and none tells a reader how to build a real snow globe. The rows and the lines under them were compared with every other list on the site on 2026-10-15. Licence: own work

How it works

The trapped in a snow globe writing prompt is usually one sentence on a worksheet. These sixty prompts take the same glass ball four ways, so a whole class can write about it and no two pieces start alike.

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The stuck in a snow globe writing prompt, fifteen ways

Fifteen prompts keep the writer inside the glass and change the task: a diary of three days, a letter to the owner, a list of rules, a phone call with one bar of signal, the steps for getting out. One asks for an opinion: a day inside, or a day outside unable to help?

A writing prompt in a snow globe that is not about you

Thirty more leave the writer out. The town has a mayor, a baker, a school and a newspaper. The shake has a group to itself: told as a live weather report, in slow motion, or twice, once by the hand and once by the house.

Decide what the snow is made of before you start. The answer changes what a character can do with it.
For the shake, use the present tense and keep the sentences short until the snow settles.

Questions and answers

What is the trapped in a snowglobe writing prompt?

Imagine you wake up inside a snow globe, and write what happens. The versions here run from the first five minutes on the shelf to a message stamped into the snow for someone outside to read.

What can you write about a snow globe besides being trapped?

A globe you would make yourself: the scene inside, what falls in it if not snow, the warning on its label. Or the glass without you in it: a second house appears in the town overnight, or the snow hangs still after a shake.

Are these snow globe writing prompts only for December?

No. Nothing in the list names a holiday. One prompt visits the town in summer, when the globe sits in a box, and another asks for a globe made for a season that is not winter.

How do you start an If I lived in a snow globe story?

With the first thing you would build. A first line from the list: I built the library before I built the roof. Then write one day in that room, from the morning to the next shake.