Every parent knows the moment: the food has not arrived, the drive is long, the afternoon has gone sideways. These twelve cards are for exactly then. Each one starts a story and stops just before the good part: a dragon with a wobbly tooth, a rocket grounded over one missing sock, a mitten setting off to find its person. Then the card asks the only question that matters. What happens next?
What’s inside (3 pages)
- A how-to cover: cut the cards, keep them in a jar, pull one, and go. Dramatic voices encouraged.
- Twelve cut-out cards on two pages, each with a picture pair and a prompt. Cutting them out is sneaky scissor practice all by itself.
Tell it, write it, or draw it
Little kids tell their endings out loud. Bigger kids can write or draw them, and writers can pair a card with our free Stretch a Sentence printable to grow the story one question at a time. House rule worth stealing: end every story with “and what happened NEXT?” and hand it to the next person.
The dragon’s tooth is still wobbly. Someone needs to finish that story. ✂️
