As your child is eating lunch / dinner, encourage them to find some simple rhymes. For example, "I am eating toast...which I like the most" or "Vegetables are great….so let's eat them from my plate!." You can provide the first line and have them come up with the rhyming second.

1) Plate and great rhyme. What else rhymes with these?

2) What is your favourite food and what rhymes with it?

3) What words could rhyme with your name?

Select an object from a room in your house and ask your child to think of all the things you can do with that object - for example a Cup. It's a simple but challenging question - see how long a list of answers you can generate. Encourage your child to think of both ordinary uses (eg drinking, storing, trapping) and unusual uses (eg talking, planting a tree, drawing circles). See how many uses you can come up with together and encourage your child to be wildly creative.

1. If the Cup was upside down it could be a Drum! What else can we do with it upside down?
2. What if the Cup was the size of a house?
3. What if the Cup was digital somehow?

Take any everyday object around you and talk about all the ways in which it could be improved - for example, a sofa. Encourage your child to consider the human user and all the things she would like to do on the sofa - eating, drinking, playing? This is how designers and product developers invent new products - real or digital. It is called "Design Thinking" and used by Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook etc

1) Sofas are for sitting on. But what else might people want to do?

2) How could you research what people want?

3) How would you then test your improvements to see if you made it better?