The Empty Box

One Friday afternoon, Zack and Kate were bored and, as it was a beautiful day, they went out to their backyard to play with their dog. When they went out, their eyes were astonished by a enormous empty box! They ran to the box and fought to get in first, and of course, awkwardly, Zack won, and Kate started crying... So, Zack decided to share the box with his little sister, so he got out and helped her in.
They spent the whole afternoon playing inside the empty box. When their mother got home and saw that they were not fighting and that they were having a great time together (that didn't happen usually, they were most of the time arguing or fighting) she just couldn't believe what she was looking. So she asked the babysitter how long they had been there, and what they were doing inside a box, and she told her that they had been there all afternoon and that she didn´t understand what they were up to.
It was getting late and the kids were still there! So Sarah (their mother) went out to look for them. They didn't want to get out, but anyway, Sarah forced them. She asked the kids what they were doing for such a long time inside the empty box and they told her that they were travelling all around the space.
So, that was the moment when Sarah realized that the box wasn't empty, that it was full of imagination.
This is a way to show us that sometimes we should keep things simple, and not try to look for explanations for everything. The kids could play with a toy that is not on sale: imagination.
So we should get something that calls our attention and just imagine what fantastic things can happen in there and you will see a whole new world! It doesn't matter how old we are, we just have to fill in the empty box.

Here is a video with a song we related the plot of this story to (hope you like it!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDj_Rdx1P8Q

Written by Florencia Giovanniello and Julieta Domingo.