Patchwork a Story

"She made the stories her own, chopped them up and clapped them back together in new formations, putting the enchanted princess in the loving embrace of a villainous wolf, marrying the charming prince to the wicked witch and giving them a brood of dwarfs to raise as their own."  from Wonder Show by Hannah Barnaby

Choose five of your favorite: novels, stories, fables, myths or poems. Transfer characters from one story to another. Exchange relationships. Alter history. Trade male characters for females.

Redesign the last paragraph. Play with settings, plots and characters by asking, what if? and then what? 

Change the setting and whale in Moby Dick. What if Dorothy and Toto land near a house. They walk in and see three bowls of porridge.

Imagine if Scarlet had married Ashley and moved to California during the Gold Rush?

Drop Piglet and Pooh into a Dr. Seuss world.

Take King Kong to the zoo.

What if Penelope had sailed on an odyssey instead of her husband?

Place Emma or Snow White in a scene from Water for Elephants.

Creative Write: Imaginate and use humor to patchwork a story.