About 12 min
What you’ll need
- Two objects chosen from different rooms
How to do it
- Name the two objects and describe them together.
- Take turns adding one sentence that moves the story from the first object to the second.
- Retell the story and change one event.
The challenge
What problem could connect these two objects?
Feedback
Many answers can work; explain the connection so a listener can follow it.
How would the ending change if one character made a different choice?
Feedback
Changing one event helps practise cause and effect.
What this practices
This activity practices vocabulary, narrative sequence, imagination and listening.
For the adult
For younger children, accept gestures or short phrases and turn them into a sentence together.