There are 40 holiday writing prompts for kids: ideas for tasks to inspire creative writing about holidays and vacations. Ideal Back to School writing tasks.It amazes me that as teachers we continually ask students to write about their vacations! After every holiday or school break, teachers repeat this writing task. However, I find this a valuable activity in the first few weeks, as it is an easy, familiar topic for students to write about, and it gives lots of insight into their skills, interes