I believe kids are great story tellers. Sometimes they just need a little spark. We create the sparks, their imagination does the rest.
The world is full of things that are creative on our behalf…for kids especially. Technology is awesome, but picking which color to auto fill a digital coloring book or flipping a digital page and having a story read to you isn’t imagination. Kids need to have as many chances as possible to let their imaginations run wild, in any direction they choose.
This is where the kids create the story
This isn’t just another choose your own adventure, or pick which way the character heads or what he picks up, you create the story. There are several pages in between each illustration, and they are blank..well they have lines to help fit your story in, but there is no story, it’s all up to you. Are the characters good or bad? are they searching for something or are they stealing it? is it an epic adventure or a bumbling comedy of goofballs…you decide…you create…you imagine.
The illustrations are the guide
The illustrations in each book give hints or ideas of what could be happening in the story. They will give you markers along the way, but how the illustrations are interpreted can change the whole story…the illustrations are the flint, they are designed to be struck against an imagination, and from there the pages will get filled with millions of amazing stories.
The best part of flint books is that the story is completely up to the one looking at it, how they interpret the illustrations, what they think is happening, and then how they want it to go.
