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World Book Day 2018: #ShareaStory with PizzaExpress

Kids' Corner, Learning

Do you wish you could write a novel in 60 minutes? To celebrate World Book Day 2018, PizzaExpress, as one of the official partners, is launching creative writing workshops for children in a few of its restaurants across the UK.

Crevette (9) and Beanie (7) attended one of the workshops with Scribbler HQ during half term and our morning was filled with heroes, twists, plots, adventure, fun and a few villains too!

The children were given given the ultimate story telling secret at the very start of the session. I won’t reveal more otherwise it would spoil everything, but even I had a “aha” moment!

Do you wish you could write a novel in 60 minutes? To celebrate World Book Day 2018, PizzaExpress, as one of the official partners, is launching creative writing workshops for children in a few of its restaurants across the UK.

The workshop started with a whistle-stop tour of storytelling for 7  to 12-year-olds, with references to Harry Potter and Star Wars amongst others. It gave the children a starting point, characters and plots to analyse so they could see a pattern emerging and also identify how the authors had made these stories so good.

Do you wish you could write a novel in 60 minutes? To celebrate World Book Day 2018, PizzaExpress, as one of the official partners, is launching creative writing workshops for children in a few of its restaurants across the UK.

Crevette with his friend Polly

At the start of the creative writing part, 7-year-old Beanie felt she couldn’t do it. She was on the verge of tears and begging me to stay with me and her younger sisters instead of attempting the workshop, but it turns out she gained confidence really quickly thanks to their two teachers for the day, who were breaking it all down into small steps and making story writing seem more manageable for my 7-year-old who is absolutely terrified of failure.

Do you wish you could write a novel in 60 minutes? To celebrate World Book Day 2018, PizzaExpress, as one of the official partners, is launching creative writing workshops for children in a few of its restaurants across the UK.

The children were engaged, supported and got given lots of tips during their session, which they all thoroughly enjoyed! The best part? At the end of the workshop, they got to take home their very own mini novel, and they were bursting with pride as they read their stories to us. Crevette wrote The Happy Pizza and Beanie’s story was all about Paddington with a cake on his head!

Do you wish you could write a novel in 60 minutes? To celebrate World Book Day 2018, PizzaExpress, as one of the official partners, is launching creative writing workshops for children in a few of its restaurants across the UK.

They did create these mini novels at an impressive speed, but the skills they’ve learnt will without the shadow of a doubt stay with them for a lifetime. It has certainly made me think about story-making a lot in the past couple of weeks!

The reward for their great writing efforts was their favourite meal. We do love PizzaExpress! They had dough balls, Margherita pizza and vanilla ice cream for dessert. Happy children!

For World Book Day, PizzaExpress also came up with a special edition of the Dough Ball Times activity pack, which will be available in restaurants until the 25th March, featuring a £1 National Book Token and a competition where children are invited to win a year’s supply of books by designing their own World Book Day Dough Ball Bookmark.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post but all opinions and photos are my own, unless otherwise stated.

01/03/2018 · 8 Comments

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  1. The Cheshire wife says

    03/03/2018 at 12:31 pm

    Such a fantastic idea , my 7 year old isn’t quite writing stories yet , but I’m sure he would love it 😊

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    • Mel says

      03/03/2018 at 3:19 pm

      My 7yo wasn’t sure either. She normally only writes sentences, but she did really well with plenty of encouragement and pointers.

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  2. Fi Ni Neachtain says

    03/03/2018 at 1:36 pm

    How lovely to get children creative writing. I always loved writing short stories when I was a child. It’s such a great thing for little ones imaginations 🙂

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    • Mel says

      03/03/2018 at 3:19 pm

      It really is! Although my little lady wasn’t sure to start with, they reassured her really quickly and gave her the confidence to go for it. It was fab!

      Reply
  3. Lisa (Travel Loving Family) says

    04/03/2018 at 11:37 am

    This is such a fab idea. My nearly 7 year old would love this. He is always writing stories;)

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    • Mel says

      04/03/2018 at 11:09 pm

      They really are brilliant little workshops x

      Reply
  4. Lauren - Dilan and Me says

    04/03/2018 at 10:04 pm

    This sounds so lovely. I love how great pizza express is for kids and this sounds like a really really fun way to get them into creative writing! Thanks for sharing xx

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    • Mel says

      04/03/2018 at 11:08 pm

      I’ve always loved PizzaExpress, even more so since Jumpy’s allergy diagnosis. For years, it was the only place where she could have a starter, main and dessert so it’s really special for us. They just never ever stop innovating. Those workshops are absolutely brilliant.

      Reply

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