Creative Thinking (Homeschool 2015-2016)

So the school year hasn't yet begun, but I HAVE to count one of our new family games as a lesson. Ahh, the joys of a home education :)

We have three cups - SETTING, CHARACTER, and PLOT. We pick 2-3 settings, each person a character, and at LEAST two plot twists to go along with whatever story line they come up with. All are drawn from a hat. Some examples are as follows:

Setting
Christmas Town

Bakery

Fair

Rainstorm
On a boat

In space

Rodeo

Stuck in a closet

School

Hospital
etc.

Characters

Buzz Lightyear
Doctor
Cowboy

Nascar Driver

Various superheroes

Barn animals

Police, Fire, Medic
Alien
Talking Hotdog haha (that was my husbands idea...)
Photographer

Chef
Baby
and on and on...

Plot

You can only speak gibberish

The world has run out of ice cream

You are on a treasure hunt

You are searching for the worlds best popcorn

You are stuck in Arendale

A doughnut tornado has taken over your town

It is always Christmas

You are on a TV show

You are forced to live at a pumpkin patch

Anything else ridiculous that will make kids giggle...

This is one of our babysitters' favorite activities, as their dad is the set designer at a theatre. The rules are as follows:

1. You MUST create your scene with art
2. You MUST use props (and put them away)
3. No re-draw, you get what you get
4. You have to work all ideas into your story (but story doesn't HAVE to be centered around plot twists)
5. Rehearse before performance
6. TEAMWORK - no boss of the performance
7. Costumes are encouraged!
8. Have fun and be silly!
   
   Here was what they drew the other night with our sitters:
   Setting - On a boat/Christmastown
   Characters - Pig/Iron Man/Nascar Driver/Doctor
   Plot - Someone has to lose legs/Someone can only speak gibberish
   
   I think they did an AMAZING job given their silly assignments. Take a look:

Happy Tuesday!