By Denice Sealy
Does it feel like you and your kids have read every bedtime story that's in the bookshelf four or five times over? Try this twist to mix things up a bit... and watch bedtime become fun again:
Bedtime stories are great for kids because their imaginations get activated when they enter the world of the story. If you want to kick things up a notch, try helping them create a fairytale of their own... here's how:
- Help them pick a main character(hint hint, it should probably be them.)
- Create something that this character wants to achieve --maybe it's to climb a million steps to reach a castle in the sky, or swim to the very bottom of the ocean. You can have fun combining creative forces with them to help them come up with something.
- Come up with an obstacle---maybe there's a wise man at the top of the steps who won't let anybody in until they answer three difficult questions---you get the picture.
- Invent the part of the story where the main character faces the obstacles and uses his or her resources to fight the battle and maybe even receives some help from other characters.
- Have the main character achieve his or her goal, or if he or she doesn't, create a to becontinued for the next evening.
As you practice creating stories, your child's imagination will be activated more and more, and soon they'll be coming up with all sorts of interesting characters and twists and turns in their stories. If you want to kick things up even more, take time outs to act out the story, with you and your child playing various characters.
The beauty of creating the story is that you can return to the same story the next evening, or you can create another one from scratch, and this can happen for as many evenings as you would like. You can pick themes or ideas like practicing kindness to others, the value oflearning to work in a team, or any from which you think your child would benefit. A story about a young girl who was bored, for example, and set about on a journey to create fun and creative activities for herself can be entertaining, and informative as well. The possibilities are endless! Who knows, maybe one day, your little one might have enough stories for a book of his or her own!
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