Warm – Up Activity

 

 

 

The Wonderful World of “What If…?”

 

 

In an ordinary, everyday from of mind, you may look at a situation and say, “So, that’s how it is.” In a creative frame of mind, you could look at the same situation and say, “That’s how it is now, but what if…?” Imagination takes over and reshapes the familiar world.  Choose one of the following scenarios and write for about 10 minutes.

 

 

 

  1. What if people lived backwards, starting life old and wrinkled and growing younger and younger until we faded away?

 

  1. What if you had a closet in your room that was really a time-travel capsule?

 

  1. What if grades in school were awarded randomly-say, by lottery or by picking them out of a hat?

 

  1. What if our atmosphere became poisoned and we had to live underground?

 

  1. What if children were forced to leave their families at age twelve to take care of themselves and make their own way in life?

 

  1. What if dogs could talk?

 

  1. What if schools, stores, businesses all ran on a 24-hour schedule, with some of us going to school from eight to four, some from four to midnight, and some from midnight to eight in the morning?

 

  1. What if people were all different colors?

 

  1. What if human beings had fur, as most mammals do?

 

  1. What if you discovered that your dreams were becoming real?