Plays for playthings

A child has some dolls to play with. They make up actions and dialog with their friends surrounding the dolls and have fun.

Improve this! Have a software thing like an echo dot know which toys are in use and then have it say plot developments like "Marge drops Lisa off at the ballet studio instead of soccer by accident" or "the bird takes off Bart's hat" and then the kids voluntarily improvise dialog and toy motions from the suggestions.

The idea is that the children bring more kinds of new things to their play. There is even room for adults to load the plot movements with flagrantly prosocial things like "Lisa goes to the library and gets a book. She finds a movie ticket inside!" "Barbie [uses the play garage] to get her oil changed, but she says its too much and does it herself", or "Bart shows the doctor a picture he drew when he gets a vaccine".

They could measure the children's happiness while they develop the software. I do not know if one suggestion every three minutes or once a minute (a tighter play) would cause greater enjoyment. Cameras and audio on the test children could figure out what they like.

It could actually be measured and adjusted to increase creativity, with the number of novel words or divergent ideas the child generates measured. This way it is a toy enhancement that actually increases and practices creativity.