Kwanzaa Writing Prompts & Story Ideas
Paginepagineapp.comA principle a day. Fourteen free Kwanzaa writing prompts for kids — two for each of the seven principles, for journals and family conversations.
1. Umoja (unity): Write about a time your family or class worked as one team.
2. Umoja: What makes your community feel together?
3. Kujichagulia (self-determination): Describe who you are in five words, and explain each one.
4. Kujichagulia: What is something you decided to do all by yourself?
5. Ujima (collective work): Write about a time you helped someone solve a problem.
6. Ujima: Plan a project your class could do together to help your neighbourhood.
7. Ujamaa (cooperative economics): Invent a business you could start with friends. What would it sell?
8. Ujamaa: Write about a local shop or business you love and why.
9. Nia (purpose): What do you want to do when you grow up, and how will it help others?
10. Nia: Write a goal for the new year and three steps to reach it.
11. Kuumba (creativity): Describe something you made that you are proud of.
12. Kuumba: How could you make your street, school or home more beautiful?
13. Imani (faith): Write about a person you believe in, and why.
14. Imani: Write a letter to yourself to open next Kwanzaa.