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Create Your Own Christmas Stories

Create Your Own Christmas Story

The Christmas Story Generator is perfect for instilling a love of storytelling in your pupils and helping them to develop their writing skills. Use the Christmas story generator below to help your little writers to plan and develop their own Christmas stories before they write them out in full. We’ve also created a handy PDF version of the Christmas Story Generator for you to print off and use with your class.

Let’s start your story…

Choose Your Characters

From the list below, choose two characters to be your heroes and one to be your baddie. For each of your chosen characters, choose three describing words.

Santa Claus	Penny Penguin	Padma Polar Bear
The Christmas Angel	Rudolph the Reindeer	Woof the Dog
Postman Paul	Eric Elf	Mrs Claus
Wanda the Fairy	Sonny Snowman	Storm Sandra

Choose a Setting for Your Story

The North Pole	A Christmas Village	The Christmas Party
A Bedroom on Christmas Morning	Santa's Sleigh	The Night Sky on Christmas Eve
A Snowy Forest	An Ice Cave	Santa's Grotto

Now imagine that you are in your chosen place, use your senses to answer the following questions…

What are the main colours that you can see?
How does this place make you feel?
What can you smell?
What can you see?
Can you hear anything?
What textures can you feel?

Choose a Problem

All good stories have a problem that the characters must try to overcome. Choose yours from the following list (or create your own):

The presents have been stolen	Santa is lost	Rudolph is poorly
The sleigh is broken	The elves are on strike	Santa is missing

Now think about the following questions…

How does the problem make your characters feel?

How has your villain caused this problem?

What will the consequences be if the problem isn’t fixed?

Choose a Helper

During your story your heroes will meet someone who will help them. Choose your new character from the following list:

Eddie Elf	An Old Knight	Prince Pedro
Betty the Ballerina	Susie Star	Ali the Arctic Fox
Bobbie Robin	Wally Walrus	Carol the Cat

And then write down the following…

Choose three words to describe them

What makes this character extra-special?

How are they going to help your heroes?

Create Your Ending

To create the ending for your story, answer these questions in full sentences:

Will the ending of your story be happy or sad?
Does your story end in the same place that it started?
Does the problem get fixed? How?

You now have all of the components that you need for your Christmas story. In your exercise book or on paper (ask your teacher which they would prefer), write out your story. Don’t forget to use full sentences and punctuation. Use all of the descriptions and ideas that you have created in your plan to bring your story to life.

Download the Story Generator PDF for your class here: Christmas Story Generator

Did you know that PTS has a fantastic range of Christmas gifts for pupils and teachers? Take a look here.