“Machine" Stories
I've invented (or borrowed) a few extraordinary machines and put them into your child(ren)'s hands. What happens when they use them? Again, either your child(ren) can write the stories on their own or, together, you can create the tales.
- The Time Machine
- The Space Machine
- The Time and Space Machine
- The Talking Machine
- The Super Power Machine
#1. The Time Machine
This machine lets you travel in time. Forwards or backwards. You can set it for hours, days, years, or centuries. But you're always in this exact same spot. In exactly one hour you automatically return.
- How far into the past or the future do you go?
- What did you see and do?
#2. The Space Machine
This machine lets you travel in space. You can go anywhere you want on this Earth, under the sea, or into space. But it's always right now. In exactly one hour you automatically return to this place.
- Where do you go?
- What did you see and do?
#3. The Time and Space Machine
This machine lets you go anywhere at any time. You pick when and where. In exactly one hour you automatically return.
- Where and when did you go?
- What did you see and do?
#4. The Talking Machine
© 1999 Stuart B Baum
Point this machine at any animal or thing. Now it can talk.
- At what did you point the machine?
- What did it say?
#5. The Super Power Machine
© 1999 Stuart B Baum
This machine gives you one superpower.
- What did you choose?
- Now what do you do?
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