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🧺 Talk Show for an Object
Interview a household object as if it were a celebrity guest with opinions, secrets, and complaints.
What you need
Any object nearby: mug, chair, toothbrush, umbrella, shoe, lamp.
How to play
- Choose an object and give it a personality.
- One person becomes the interviewer; the other answers as the object.
- Ask about its job, frustrations, ambitions, and relationships with humans.
- Switch roles after a few questions.
See one in action
Guest: an umbrella.
Interviewer: “What is the hardest part of your job?”
Umbrella: “Being appreciated only when the weather is terrible. On sunny days, nobody even remembers I exist.”
Interviewer: “What would you change about humans?”
Umbrella: “I would teach them to stop leaving me in restaurants.”
Give the object a personality and let the answers reveal how it sees humans.
Interviewer: “What is the hardest part of your job?”
Umbrella: “Being appreciated only when the weather is terrible. On sunny days, nobody even remembers I exist.”
Interviewer: “What would you change about humans?”
Umbrella: “I would teach them to stop leaving me in restaurants.”
Give the object a personality and let the answers reveal how it sees humans.
10 ideas to try
Choose any one of these prompts and use the activity steps above:
- Interview a coffee mug about being ignored after breakfast.
- Interview a refrigerator about everything it has seen at 2 a.m.
- Interview a shoe that is tired of going wherever its owner chooses.
- Interview an umbrella that only feels appreciated when the weather is terrible.
- Interview a phone charger about people borrowing it and never returning it.
- Interview a pillow about the secrets people tell it before falling asleep.
- Interview a backpack about the strange things humans force it to carry.
- Interview a traffic cone about spending its life being avoided.
- Interview a toothbrush that wants a more glamorous career.
- Interview a remote control about always being blamed when nobody can find it.
Make it harder / funnier
Give the object a strong personality: arrogant, nervous, dramatic, suspicious, or extremely polite.
Why it helps
Develops imagination, perspective-taking, conversational flexibility, and spontaneous expression.
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