The Imaginator

• How does The Imaginator work? What goes in and what comes out? What’s creating the sparks? Does it need electricity to function? Write an explanation of how it works.
• Who made The Imaginator?
• Who does this one belong to? Why is it here?
• Are there any others? Where are they sold?
• Create an advert for The Imaginator. Who is the target market? Why would they need one? What are its best features?
• Why is imagination important? What can we do to keep the imagination active?
• Which of these quotes about imagination do you like best? Why?
  • “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso
  • “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
  • “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” – Terry Pratchett
  • “Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”  – Philip José Farmer
  • “Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
  • “When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.” – Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

Credit: Tim O’Brien
www.obrienillustration.com