Today’s Family continues to support our families. Home Activities is a new blog series where we share activities and games to keep bodies and brains active while we all practice safe Social Distancing. Just as we’re sharing these thoughts with you, please share these ideas with your family and friends through social media.

Today’s Home Activity: How Many Ways

Ages: 5 and up

This is a fun activity that gets the creative juices flowing and encourages children to use their imaginations! This is a good activity for all ages, but we suggest your children be old enough to at least understand stories before trying this one out.

This is a good activity to do either during or after telling a story. It could be after reading a book or watching a movie or an episode of a television show, or you can make a story up and tell it to them the old-fashioned way. Ask your child to think of different ways the story could have ended: do they think there’s something else the hero could have done that would have made the story better? Or what could they have done to make things worse?

Come up with a lot of different “What if?” or “How could?” scenarios together, and then decide which ones are your favourites as a team. Staying involved in this process is great to show children that imagination isn’t a thing that just goes away when you get older. You can end the activity here, or work on writing or drawing the new and improved ending.

Why we love it: We are huge fans of anything that can get children more excited to think about information they are given. This thinking strategy is a great tool to have later in life, when they will by applying this same logic to other situations.