PIPA Stories & Plays
I’m often asked how to stimulate creative writing. Here is a wonderful aid I’ve been using for decades: PIPA. That stands for the subjects: Person, Item, Place and Animal. For each subject there are 20 small picture discs, and, for example, your child/ren take one from each subject at random and use those seemingly unrelated pictures to form a story. So she may have picked out a GRANNY, a RING, a VOLCANO and a SPIDER. Now comes the fun part: making a story that involves all four! The results are often hilarious! The point is, because one is not able to make a ‘sensible’ story, the imagination is set free – and really creative thinking can take place. Use them to develop little skits to act out, too. Can be used in the teaching of any language. I have found that with repeated ‘playing’, children become more and more adept at creating and writing good stories.
The set comes in its own container with a guide giving plenty of ideas for usage.