#392: Magic Carpet!

Pretend you are taking a magic carpet ride!


Get on a blanket, towel, or little carpet and pretend you are flying through the air. What do you see down there? Is there someone in need of rescue?


Make this a family activity: Give your family members a ride! Where should you go? What do you want to see?

This activity promotes imagination and stimulates free play.

#370: Create an Invisible Friend

Do you have an invisible friend? No? Why not create one.

If you already have an invisible friend, create another one.


Who is your invisible friend? Give them a name, birthday, hobbies, favourite foods, and books they like to read.

When you get bored or lonely, talk and play with your invisible friend. Have tea parties, play cars, even race each other across the living room.


Make this a family activity: See if your parents had invisible friends when they were kids.

This activity promotes imagination as well as coping and resiliency skills.

#320: Pretend to be a Mime

Mimes cannot talk or make noises. They act out what they are thinking or want to say by using their hands, body and facial expressions. Can you be a mime?




Make this a family activity: Take turns acting things out as a mime, or work together. Try not to laugh!

This activity promotes physical space awareness and creativity.

#301: Spend a Million Dollars

Come on, I know you wanna. How far does a million dollars go? Can you spend a million dollars ($1, 000, 000)?



Get out a calculator, a few catalogues (for prices and ideas) and see how much you could buy if you had a million dollars. Is it hard? Is it easy?

Hmmm... how much does a swimming pool and a convertible cost?


Make this a family activity: See what everyone buys.

This activity promotes math skills.

#211: Pretend You Are an Animal

What kind of animal are you? Where do you live? What do you do during the day? How do you act? What do you eat?




Make this a family activity: someone can be the animal trainer, or you can all be animals together.

This activity promotes awareness of other species and their behaviour.

#193: Pretend You Are a Celebrity / Famous

Pretend you are a celebrity (a famous person). What do they do? What do they talk like? What do they wear? Where do they go?



Make it a family activity: Every celebrity needs celebrity friends, family, photographers, assistants and more!

This activity promotes imagination.

#140: Pretend You Are Blind

Close your eyes or blindfold yourself and walk around. Make sure you do this in a safe place (for example, away from hot stoves, stairs, and breakable objects).




To help keep you safe, you can have a friend be your guide. Allow them to give you directions. Follow their directions and see where they lead you. Take turns being blind.


This activity promotes processing sensory clues other than sight to navigate.

#98: Pretend You Are an Airplane

What do airplanes see when they are up in the sky? What do they sound like? Where do they go?



What kind of airplane are you?


This activity promotes imagination.

#34: Pretend You Are Invisible

Nobody can see you!



What do invisible people do? What is the best part about being invisible? The worst part?

Careful nobody steps into you by accident!


This activity promotes creative problem solving by using one's imagination.

#22: Pretend You Can Fly

Hey, what do things look like from up there?


This activity promotes imagination and creative thinking.

#8: Pretend You Are a Storybook Character

Think of a book you have read or had read to you. It can be any book you want. Pretend you are one of the characters. You can act out the whole story or make up your own all-new adventure.

Here are some characters to get you started if you are having trouble thinking of one:

• Franklin (is that turtle learning something new today?)
• Winnie the Pooh (is he out of honey again?)
• Harry Potter or Hermione (do they have to use their magic to save the day?)
• Elizabeth--the paper bag princess (does she have to rescue Ron from the dragon--again?)
• Dora or Diego (they are going to need help from Map and Boots to keep things safe from Swiper!)

This activity promotes creativity and imagination. It can also promote literacy.