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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Thrift Store Fun

Get creative at your local thrift store with some of the fun adventures below.

1) Find an old book and tear out a page. Cut out all of the sentences and rearrange them to create different outcomes. Try cutting up a few more pages. Can you make a story?

2) Take photos of the faces of all the discarded stuffed animals. How do they feel about being at a thrift store? Who do they miss? Where do they want to go? Do you have a solution? 

3) Find a pair of shoes. List out the places they have been. Draw the person you imagine wore them. Draw the person who made the shoes. Write what you think could happen to this pair of shoes. 

4) Look at the discarded appliances. Come up with new functions for them. A blender could become an alien spaceship; a toaster could become barracks for green plastic army men; an old typewriter could be a....

Have fun with the best toy in the world...your imagination! 

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