Screen-Free Summer Week 6: Story & Imagination

Let imaginations run wild with our final Screen-Free Summer challenge as kids create their own character and dream up a brand-new adventure.

Published: August 24, 2026 at 10:23 AM

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Welcome to Week 6 of Screen-Free Summer!

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For our final challenge, we’re partnering with National Magazine Day to celebrate the power of stories, creativity and imagination.

This week, your challenge is to invent a completely original character, then bring them to life by creating an adventure of their very own using our free Character & Storyboard Sheet.

Screen-Free Summer week 6 challenge: Story & Imagination!

Who will your family create?

Download and print our free Character & Storyboard Sheet and work together to invent someone completely original.

Need a little inspiration? Flick through a favourite magazine and use a picture, character, headline or interesting fact to spark an idea. You could also take inspiration from a book or the world around you.

Maybe your character is a superhero with unusual powers, a mischievous monster, an adventurous pirate, a magical animal or something nobody has ever seen before.

Give your character:

There are no right or wrong answers — the more imaginative, the better!

Now take your character on an adventure

Once you’ve created your character, use the storyboard to tell their story and map out the adventure they go on.

Where do they travel? Who do they meet? What exciting things do they discover? Is there a problem they need to solve or a challenge they need to overcome?

Children can draw or write their ideas across the storyboard to create a story that’s completely their own.

This challenge is all about encouraging children to think creatively, tell stories and discover where their imaginations can take them — whether their inspiration comes from a book, a magazine or the world around them.

Ways to make it even more fun:

The story can be as silly, exciting, magical or unexpected as you like. The aim is simply to get creative together and enjoy some imaginative family time away from screens.

What could you win this week?

Create your character and their adventure and enter the prize draw for the chance to win a fantastic family prize bundle:

This week’s prizes:

How to enter the week 6 prize draw

Once you’ve completed your character and storyboard, share a photo of your creation, tag us @madeformums and use #MFMScreenFreeSummer.

Every valid entry will go into the draw for the chance to win a family activity prize. We’d especially love to see entries full of creativity, imagination and screen-free family fun. Terms & Conditions apply.

We’ll also be sharing some of our favourite Screen-Free Summer creations across our social channels throughout the summer.

Visit our Screen-Free Summer hub to find out more about National Magazine Day and discover their competition celebrating the joy of reading and magazines.

Where will your imagination take you?

A blank page and a little inspiration are all you need to get started. Create your character, dream up their adventure and see where the story takes you.

And that’s a wrap on our six Screen-Free Summer challenges! We hope you’ve had plenty of fun creating, exploring, playing and making memories together away from screens.

Good luck, have fun and let your imaginations run wild!

Pic: Getty

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Emily Longman WallDigital Content Producer

Emily is the Digital Content Producer at MadeForMums and creates editorial and video content across the brand. She also edits the weekly editorial newsletter, oversees our reviews process and loves creating our craft articles and videos. She specialises predominantly in car seats and pushchairs, and has yet to meet a buggy she couldn’t fold! With a 1st class degree in History, she always researches topics thoroughly to find the best recommendations for parents.

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