1. Dig through your junk drawer or the kid's toy chest to collect beloved household items. Try to look for items in unexpected places and imagine the story behind the discarded pen cap you find buried in your couch cushions. Maybe the pen cap decided to go deep-couch diving after it overheard the Jacques Cousteau documentary your family watched last week.

2. Once you’ve collected your items, arrange them on the floor or on your kitchen table. Preschoolers can organize the items by color or by shape, or use your imaginations to incorporate the different objects into stories.

3. After you’ve played with your scene and settle on each item’s placement, take an overhead photo of your arrangement. Change the layout a few times, always snapping a pic, and then print your photos and turn them into your own custom I Spy book.

Creating imaginative stories with household objects can provide unexpected entertainment. Read your book together and find new tales to tell. Your I Spy book will become a souvenir of your stories.

This activity was created by our friends at the New Victory Theater in New York City. The theater's current production is Minimón. See what else the New Vic has coming up for tots.

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