See it, dream it, try it
We are all inventors at our core. Tap into this seldom used skill, have some fun and create something new!
🎉 Opening Ceremony 🎉
Necessity … the mother of invention.
- Plato
Have you invented anything?
What’s an invention that would improve your life?
︖ Probing Question ⸮
Would you rather live in space or underwater?
🧠 Trivia Question 🧠
What year was YouTube created? 2005
📙 Word of the Week 📙
Ingenuity - a skill or cleverness in devising or combining (source: Merriam-Webster)
🎙️ Main Event 🎙️
See it
Dream it
Try it
See it
Watch a Mark Rober youtube video - glitterbomb is the all-time best! Squirrel course or impossible baseball are great choices if you’ve seen plenty of glitterbomb!
Dream it
Give everyone a blank piece of paper (unlined white printer paper is my tool of choice but anything works) and 5 minutes to brainstorm a zany idea for a family video that would go viral be incredibly fun using what is around your home.
Share ideas with the group, combine them and enjoy the laughs! Which idea(s) are possible to try? What would it take to make it?
Try it
Give it a go. Record a video. Choose to share it on social or not - that’s not the point. Have fun making a crazy family video together. Guaranteed to be a great memory one year from today!
🎶 Closing Ceremony 🎶
🤔 Matt’s Reflections 🤔
Watching old videos of my children makes me wish I had captured more of those memories. It’s difficult to estimate just how much our future self might value a relatively simple video of our family today. Even the mundane becomes interesting in a few years time.
🧐 Variations / FAQ 🧐
Don’t like or seen too much Rober?
Watch a Mr. Beast, SNL skit, Amazing humans, Dude Perfect or any other inspiring video
Prefer something more skill-based?
Watch juggling, dribbling a soccer ball with speed or how to griddy