Try Your Hand at CREATIVE Analogies!
This activity is designed to help kids begin understanding and creating analogies and helps them distinguish between ordinary and creative. It also helps them vocalize their thinking. Kids, generally, are not used to analogies, but pick it up quickly. Children should understand that ordinary ideas are those that lots of people think of --creative ideas are those that are unusual --those that most never think of! Lead a discussion into which of the two responses to the analogy is creative and which is ordinary. Children should share their "thinking" --why do you think "x" is more creative than "y?" They then think of other analogies of their own to add as they progress from one to the next. For instance, after discussing "as quiet as" and determining what "they think" is the most creative, they add their own as quiet as... ideas. Get ready... you will be surprised how good they are at this! Here are some analogies to use to get kids started:
As quiet as a mouse or as quiet as a feather floating --
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as quick as lightening or as quick as a race car
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The clock ticked as loudly as a drum or as loudly as screaming babies
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The moon shone as bright as a flashlight in your eyes or as bright as police lights at night
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The girl laughed as happily as a child on Christmas morning or as happily as a boy finding his lost puppy--
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The shoes were as green as grass or as green as a tree frog --
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The man was as big as a bear or big as a lie --
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The fuzzy house shoes were as cute as a kitten or cute as baby toes --
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The woman was as curious as child with an unopened present or as curious as a cat --
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The room was as cold as ice or as cold as your tongue stuck to a popsicle --
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The room was as hot as a kid wearing too many clothes or hot as a fire --
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The blanket was as soft as a cotton ball or soft as new snow --
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She ate as much as a a team of teenage football players or she ate as much as an elephant.
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The boy moved as slowly as a turtle or the boy moved as slowly as waiting for Christmas to come --
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The room was as dark as a cave or the room was as dark as a nightmare --
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Others --
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