Story cubes

I've seen this idea out there all over the place, on etsy and in magazines, but I just got our first set of story cubes and we've already had fun just goofing off with them. You can buy these or make your own, the possibilities are endless. I just bought this set from Amazon because they weren't too expensive and because i never got around to making my own set. Remember my panic to find things to occupy my kids' time next year while we're homeschooling? This is one of the games I got to quiet my anxiety. Carter especially loves this game, even if sometimes he rolls the dice and his story is something like this," Once upon a time, I got on an airplane and saw a tree, an alien, a house and an arrow. The end."

There are tons of different ways to play a game like this. Basically, this game came with nine cubes with pictures on each side. We'll choose a set number of dice to roll and then make up a story using each of the pictures on the dice. So, in Carter's story above, he may have rolled six dice and gotten the pictures of a clock (time), airplane, tree, alien, house and direction arrow. Other ways to play are to think of a theme and tell a story from the theme, like "a dream" or "vacation". Or i just thought of this one, each person could roll one dice and add onto the first person's story. Maybe start with the youngest:)

I'll link and add the picture later. I'm still trying to figure out my new iPad :)

Our stories are not always as simple as that, but so far we've kept it pretty simple. I think I may even use these somedays for our journal writing prompts for our homeschooling.