Traveling Shuffle Story

Directions:

Your family has been driving for three hours, and you still have 150 miles to cover today. Or perhaps the ferry's been out at sea for a bit longer than your kids' patience can tolerate.

For this activity, you'll need pictures from magazines and catalogs. Shuffle the pictures and give one of your children the top picture from the stack. Then have him or her use the subject of the picture, along with something he or she can spot on the horizon or along the highway, to make up a story. If the first picture features a dog, for example, and you are driving past a shopping center, the story might begin, "One day, Dorothy the dog went to the supermarket to buy some bananas." Then give the second picture to the next player and have him or her continue the story: "Along the way, she had to stop at the tollbooth and threw her toothbrush out the . . . "

Hopefully, your story won't go to the dogs!

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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

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