What a Character!

Directions:

There's nothing like meeting a famous storybook character to help pass the time while you're waiting. Have your child choose a favorite character from a book you've read together recently and improvise a scene.

Encourage your child to reveal even more about the character than the book does. For example, your child (in character) can tell you how he or she feels about other characters in the story, what life was like before the story started, what his or her plans are, what people in the real world he or she would most like to meet and why, and so on.

You might select another character in the same book and join your child in acting out a scene from the storybook. Or you might improvise a scene that wasn't in the book but should have been, like one in which the wolf tells Red Riding Hood how he's gotten separated from the pack, so Red Riding Hood goes to her grandmother's house to call the Wolf Rescue League!

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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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