Fun and Creative Writing Games for Students

As a writer, you can find creativity in all your activities. Simple things like nature’s views, people’s gestures, conversation, and the like can give you creative ideas. So, who says you can not bring out your creativity through fun games.

If you have entrusted some essay assignments to writing services, and have left a paper to handle on your own, here are some games you can try out when writing. The games can help you write more creatively, professionally and smoothly.

Creative Writing Games for Students

These games are fun and brain-tasking, so while you are having fun, you are developing your creativity.

Start With the Last Word

Objective
See how creative you can be with sentence formation, using parts of speech, and your creativity with words.

How to Play
The first person starts a sentence; then the next person starts their sentence with the last word of the previous person’s sentence. The following person has about two seconds to think to form a new sentence. And the sentence must be grammatically and contextually correct.

Example
First person: I will be out of this place in no time.
Next person: Time is of the essence,

And it goes on and on.

Form a Poem

Objective
The game’s objective is to see how creative you are with rhymes and telling stories in short sentences.

How to play
Someone gives you a word, and you are to form a poem from the word. The poem does not have to be too long, just 5 to 7 sentences. However, there must be some rhymes in the lines.

Complete my Story

Objective
To bring out your creativity in forming stories and from events.

How to play
The first player says a sentence; the sentence is like the beginning of a story. Then the following user continues the story, which must be in line with the first user’s sentence. This goes on until someone gets bored or gets tired of telling the story.

Example
First player: On my first day in college, I was scared because I had been bullied in high school.
Second player: I looked around nervously, not concentrating on where I was going until I hit something like a hard flesh

Describe What You Hear

Objective
To teach the importance of detailed writing

How to Play
Each person is to write a short paragraph on their favorite celebrity (one popular enough to be known by most people in the gathering). Then, when they are done, the students will read out the short paragraph, and the others will be left to suggest who the celebrity is by writing it on paper. The students will see how creative and detailed they were with their words from the other participant’s words.

Describe What You Hear 2

Objective
To see how explicit a person can be when describing an event, person, or activity without needing to say the word.

How to Play
The players must describe an object, movie, person, or other exciting things with any other word apart from the word itself.

Example
Player: Odorless, tasteless, clear as crystal
The answer: Water

Picture Description

This game will open your mind to how one thing can give different meanings and how other people’s thinking is despite being exposed to similar things.

Objective
To see how creative someone can be with images. And to get a view of other people’s perspectives.

How to Play
Someone provides an image, whether from the web or a story. The image must be able to give people something to write about.

Then each person has 5 to 15 minutes to write about the image. They can give it a title, then write a story or poem about it. It can be detailed or not, depending on each person. Then at the end, a volunteer reads each person’s write-up aloud. The fun is listening to how a happy-looking image can be written as a sad story and how enjoyable a bland-looking image can be with the right creativity.

Alphabetical Sentences

Objective
The games task each person’s brain and creativity. It helps their sentence formation ability.

How to play
Each person writes a sentence in which the letters of each subsequent word must begin with the next letter of the alphabet. And even though the word might not be current, it should be just a string of words.

Example
Adam buys cream daily; even for Gaius, he ices jelly.

Form Figures of Speech

Objective
Test the players’ knowledge of figures of speech and see how creative they can be with a play of words and comparison.

How to Play
Someone chooses an old saying like ‘as white as snow,’ and everyone gets creative with it. The new expression must make as much sense and be relatable to the people around.

Convince Me

Objective
This is a test of the writer’s persuasion skill. It tests how a person can sell an idea or item to others with few words.

How to Play
A player stands up and tries to convince the other person of an idea or change the person’s perspective of a thing. And the person must do it in a few minutes. The other player must be flexible enough to note the use of the persuasive word of the other person.

The first player wins if everyone gets to see things from their perspective. This does not mean they have to agree to it.

Paint a Picture

This is usually more fun if you also have a group of painters in the room.

Objectives
To test how each person pays attention to details and how well they can describe scenery or picture to form an image in the reader’s mind.

How to Play
The players look at different images of activity or scene, and after some minutes, the picture is taken away. Then the player has to describe the scene to the person who will paint it. The description must include all the image details, including the expressions, objects, and characters.

After the other person finishes painting or drawing the image, they compare it to the original image, and the players spot the difference and score themselves.

Pour Out Your Mind

It is more of a writing exercise than a game. But it is fun if you are all sincere and genuine. Writings like these can boost people’s emotional well-being.

Objective
This helps a person write while showing emotions and vulnerability without losing the trail of the story. It also enables you to see how different people describe their feelings.

How to Play
Everyone is given some minutes to write a touching real-life story or experience. It can be a remarkable experience or how they see themselves in years to come. Then after everyone is done, they read it out while everyone listens.

Different games can test different aspects of your writing career. It shows you can have fun while still learning and developing your writing skills. So, when next there is a writing group activity, try out one of these games.