Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Fingerprint Stories

This is a great writing prompt for children to use when writing stories. They can learn about bibliographies or simply creative writing skills using this technique. The children would each place their thumb on an ink pad and transfer their fingerprint onto a piece of paper. Because a child's fingerprint will be too small to use as a guide for the writing, the fingerprint on the paper can be scanned and enlarged. The new enlarged fingerprint can then either be used directly or placed underneath another sheet of paper for the children to use as a guide. From there, they would create a story, either about themselves or a creative writing piece, and write following the grooves and curves of the fingerprint. In the end, the story would be just as unique as each individual child's fingerprint.

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