Warm-ups are a great way to shift your mind into writing mode and loosen up those creative muscles. Here are 5 short writing warm-up exercises on the theme of spring. Happy writing!

Warm-up 1:

Set a timer for 1 minute and write, as quickly as you can, a list of words that come to mind when you think of SPRING. Go …

Warm-up 2:

Fill in the blanks below as quickly as you can. Don’t overthink these – let the words flow!

• Splash and …………….
• Puddles plop and …………..
• Rainboots stomp in the …………..
• Spring flowers wave and ……………
• Worms wriggle and ……………..

Warm-up 3:

Answer these questions as quickly as possible. You can always come back to some later if they spark an idea for you. For now, stay focused on warming up those writing muscles.

• Why did the snowshoe hare hesitate?
• Why did the tulip look sad?
• What made the bee buzz very loudly?
• Why is the school child/student skipping and singing?
• Who will the robin see this morning?

Warm-up 4:

We may try to edit out adjectives in our final drafts, but in our warm-ups we get to play with them as much as we like! Let’s do an acrostic adjective challenge. Try to find 5 adjectives that start with the same letters as, and are connected to, SPRING. For example, “splash, puddles, rain …”. Now you try!

• S: splash, ….
• P: puddles, …
• R: rain, ….
• I: …
• N: …
• G: …

Warm-up 5: 

The ground is warming up and the sun is shining now. Spring is most definitely in the air. Let’s play with metaphor and simile for our final warm-up. Complete the phrases below, either as lines of poetry or sentences in a narrative. 

• The smell of rain in spring is like …
• Seeing the first crocus burst through the ground is like …
• Blossom trees, a …
• Chickadees scurry and shuffle like…
• The sun’s warmth is as …….  as ……

I hope you enjoyed these warm-ups and are now ready to write. I can’t wait to see what you create xo