50 Exciting Ideas for Storyboxes (50 Exciting Things to Do)

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A bent police officer has been planting false evidence at crime scenes for years. Who are they protecting and why? Someone has broken into your house while you were away and has taken all the religious articles out of it — every statue, every picture, and every holy water bottle. The thief left everything else alone. Your character has just lost a child by miscarriage, and when she comes home, her married life has changed. Her husband, who was always the more talkative of the two, spends their time together quietly grieving in his own way. You’re stranded in a small village down a winding road from Burgos (Spain) on a Sunday. A stranger comes by on a motorcycle and goes to fetch a taxi for you. You’re waiting at the bus station when he tells you he knows you’re meant to replace his recently deceased wife.

A comedy series about a large family living in a two-bedroom apartment, for what they think is "temporary." Box car building is a fun activity that promotes creativity and engineering skills in children. Kids can design and construct a customized box car using cardboard boxes and other simple materials; promoting problem-solving, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills. An acting coach attempts to create the greatest theater company around, looking to both the actors and the audience. A soccer team goes out to celebrate their recent victory only to discover their coach paid off the other team.

Some ideas for Story Boxes

There is no doubt that the imaginations within your class make for amazing authors, poets or play-writers, they just need to be provided with the opportunity to show it! After losing his job, he goes on a journey to change the direction of his life, but that journey is interrupted by the death of one of his parents — the one who hurt him the most. Put those noses to work! Place familiar foods in different boxes. Blindfold your kids and have them smell each box before guessing what it is. Talk about how losing one of our senses helps heighten the others! Your character walks into a tourist shop and buys a homemade “tonic” freshly mixed by the owner, after tasting and enjoying an innocuous sample in the same flavor. The tonic changes him in a way he can’t ignore or undo.

Engage your little ones’ sense of hearing. Place different noisy objects in boxes or tubes and seal the openings. Your kids must then shake the boxes or tubes and guess what’s making the noise. If they’re having trouble, give them simple clues to solve the mystery. Your character’s best friend just announced the end of a relationship, and your character is surprised to find this friend in a celebratory state of mind (rather than heartbroken).

Your neighbors have been up to some strange shenanigans lately, and their lights are on well into the wee hours of the morning. You’d like to know why, but every neighbor you’ve talked to who have gone over there to ask about it has, later on, told you that nothing suspicious is going on and that those neighbors are “very spiritual, and so, so nice!” A police officer finds a dead body at a barber’s shop in town. The cause of death was drowning. No one knows how the body got there and who did it. Two survivors of a deadly virus must navigate a post-apocalyptic world and find a way to rebuild society.