Story makers · Little One · the baby shower pack
The Bedtime Story
Everyone adds one line, seeing only the line before. Then read the baby's first bedtime story aloud.
- ~12 min
- 3–10 people
- One device, or phones
- In the Little One pack
- Ages 10+
What it feels like
Every child deserves a bedtime story nobody else has ever heard. Tonight, this room writes one, a line at a time. Here's how it works. The first person gets the opening line and writes the next one. Each person after that sees only the line before theirs, then adds their own. At the end, read the whole story aloud, from top to bottom, and hear what you made together. Nobody keeps score. The story is the prize, and you can seal the best lines.
How to play
- The first person gets the opening line and writes the next one.
- Each person sees only the line before theirs, then adds their own.
- At the end, read the whole legend aloud, top to bottom.
Scoring: No points. The story is the prize, and you can seal the best lines.
You'll get prompts like
- “Begin a bedtime story about a very small animal with a very big idea”
- “Begin a bedtime story about the night the moon came down to visit”
What you need
3 to 10 people and one phone, tablet or laptop to pass around — or everyone on their own phone in a room. Nothing to download, no accounts. The best lines can be sealed into your group's Almanac and come back in later games.
