What kind of activities do you encourage in the classroom for teaching creative writing for children?

Story telling, pictures to speak about and role playing. Also you can use brain storming to make the students collaborate with each other and bring more ideas. 

teaching children is very cardinal as such being a formal classroom teacher, i feel teaching them with more illustration, visual aid, outside the classroom, demonstration, field trip to see things related to the lesson and also ensure they see each other more similar instead of their differences for a peaceful and harmonious multicultural activities

speaking aboput what they did the day before..the way they took and the experiences they live in the road to the school.

Brings pictures of the family and tell us what they are and why they are so important in their lifes

Close their eyes and hear music ...write what they feel and what this music brings them to their minds..

Do not give them the fish, teach them to fish. What need role-models or inspiration in life. If the school can invite creative people and ask them to talk to the children about their daily activities and how they think, it will have a very strong influence on the students.

We are the sum total of the people around us ! If we want to change, we need to change our environment.

Dairy writing

imagination stories

memorable or happiest moment / event

writing a paragraph on the picture or situation displayed

I fully agree with the answers been added by EXPERTS................Thanks.

thnq for invitation but i'm not expert on this field

i would like to  not be a formal teacher ,, every student not like strike environment that s why i would like to carry them in a funny way   

Creative writing is definitely one of those areas in which parents struggle. There is plenty of dull material out there and kids get cross-eyed with frustration. But there is a better way. Here are some suggestions for making creative writing a more exciting experience, taken from the  years teaching creative writing.

Nothing will prepare your children to be good writers more than good books. Read to them every day and encourage them to read on their own as much as possible. We have been reading to our children from the day we brought them home from the hospital. I'm sure our firstborn didn't understand much of Western Civilization when he was 48-hours old, but he did hear words and language and the cadence of our voices.

Don't expect your kids to understand how to write creatively if you aren't reading aloud to them or if they aren't reading books themselves. The best book I've found so far on this topic is If You're Trying to Teach Kids to Write, You've Gotta Have This Book! by Marjorie Frank, which is packed with fun writing exercises. Two other books I like are WordPlay Café by Michael Kline and Kids Write by Rebecca Olien

Taking inspiration from these books, you can create your own creative writing curriculum. Take a page or idea each week and you'll easily have a year's worth of stimulating creative writing exercises. I'm not talking about sentence structure, paragraphs and essays, but you can help your kids explore creatively with words and language. Here are some specifics:

Step 1. One day a week, have an actual lesson in creative writing. Start at the beginning—with words. Explain that all writing is made up of words. Make a list of words that sound really interesting: sassafras, oozing, buttery. Be word collectors.

Try putting words together in odd ways, such as "The oozing sassafras sleeked and slithered onto the buttery Birkenstock." Read "Jabberwocky." Encourage your kids to collect words that they like throughout the week. (You might post this in a central location, like the refrigerator.) Your kids need to learn to appreciate and really get to know words intimately.

Step 2. Talk about synonyms and adjectives. Give them a list of "bad words" that they absolutely cannot use: big, good, nice, pretty, small, very, cool, went, said. Have them make posters outlawing those words. Encourage them to think of more descriptive words, and fill those in around the poster. For example, instead of "said," they can write, "chattered," "shrieked," "whispered," etc. This is a good time to introduce them to a thesaurus.

Step 3. Talk about strong verbs. Ask your kids to come up with exciting substitutes for everyday words, such as eat (e.g., gobble), walk (e.g., lumber), and talk (e.g., chatter). Try to get them to outdo each other (and you) by coming up with outrageous words for simple actions. Look for poems with strong verbs, or find examples in stories where the author chose to use a word like "tiptoe" instead of "walk."

Step 4. Teach them how to turn boring sentences into exciting ones using adjectives and strong verbs. This has been a favorite exercise for all my writing classes. Take a sentence like "She ate dinner" and turn it into "The headstrong acrobat insisted upon slurping her spaghetti upside down." Make up lots of sentences and expand them together.

In class recently we turned "The man went to the city" into "The aging rock star rode his psychedelic tour bus into Chicago for his final performance." Come back to this exercise again and again. Children love this.