Child Players

[Nemi3e]

I've seen several threads on the forum about younger players, and as I'm going to be babysitting two kids this weekend I'd like to get my kit together.

These kids, ah, call them in the 7-8 range, the eldest is developmentally disabled down to that point, and the younger is that age. The elder has a strong imagination and anthropomorphizing of stuffed animals. Likes to make videos on the stuffed animals bowing on their phone. (How this kid has a better phone than me I have no idea.)

They get along well and play together often.

My props are: I've got a big thing of art supplies, access to large meter sized pieces of blank paper, Playdoh, and Wooden block sets. Plus GURPS Basic Set and Lite.

So far I'm planning to use the blocks to cooperatively build a path to an object. The rules being they each place one and I place two. Funnily enough this is basically the means to do a randomly generated dungeon.

Maybe I'll pitch a he's a ____ she's a ____ together they fight crime (who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?) Or something like Pound Puppies since they like animals so much.

So far I've gleaned to use Bang! skills. But really, I don't spend much time with kids, and I don't actually like them much, so I don't know much about what they can handle, or what they like, or what's appropriate. My internal dialogue is something like: "Why wouldn't they like super crunchy math and full racial generation?" I was an odd child.