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Parents & Teachers Activity Guide

These activities and questions will help children connect with the story's themes of joy, kindness, and emotional intelligence while fostering creativity and discussion!

Discussion 
Questions

1. How does Milo use his superpower to help others in the story?
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2. Can you think of a time when you made someone happy?

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3. Why do you think Grandpa calls Milo’s smile a “superpower”?

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4. How does Oliver feel when he gets upset? How does Milo help him feel better?

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5. What makes Milo’s superpower special? Do you think everyone has a superpower? Why or why not?

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6. How do you think Oliver could learn from Milo’s example?

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7. If you were a character in this story, what would your superpower be? How would you use it?

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8. What would happen if Milo didn’t use his superpower when Oliver was upset?

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9. How do you think smiling or laughing can change someone’s day? Have you ever experienced that?

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10. What lesson do you think Grandpa wanted Milo to learn about his superpower?

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11. How can we use kindness and joy, like Milo does, to make our homes or classrooms happier places?

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12. How does Milo's superpower impact his relationship with his brother Oliver?

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13. What lessons does Grandpa teach Milo that help him understand his superpower?

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14. How does the story of Milo's superpower influence the reader's perception of kindness and resilience?

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15. In what ways does Milo's superpower affect his daily life and interactions with others?

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16. How does the story of Milo's superpower compare to other stories about children with special talents?

Classroom
Activities

1. Smile Power Experiment
  • Objective: Show how smiles can spread joy.
  • Activity: Have children smile at others (family, classmates, or strangers) and record the reactions they observe. Discuss how their actions made others feel.

 

2. Create a Superpower Badge
  • Objective: Help children recognize their unique strengths. 
  • Activity: Provide craft materials for kids to design their own "superpower badge" that represents their special abilities, like kindness, creativity, or humor.

 

3. Role-Playing Scenarios

  • Objective: Teach conflict resolution using humor and positivity.

  • Activity: Act out situations where one character is upset, and another uses Milo’s superpower (smiling or joking) to lighten the mood.

 

4. Emotion Color Wheel
  • Objective: Explore emotions and how they change.
  • Activity: Create a color wheel where each color represents an emotion (e.g., blue for sadness, yellow for happiness). Discuss how Milo’s actions shift emotions from “blue” to “yellow.”

 

5. Story Retelling with Puppets
  • Objective: Reinforce comprehension and creativity.
  • Activity: Use puppets or drawings to retell the story, focusing on moments where Milo uses his superpower.

 

6. Journaling: My Superpower
  • Objective: Encourage self-reflection.
  • Activity: Have kids write or draw about their own “superpower” and how they could use it to help others.

 

7. Kindness Chain
  • Objective: Promote acts of kindness inspired by Milo’s story.
  • Activity: Each child writes one kind act they’ve done on a paper strip, then link them together to form a “kindness chain” for display.

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8. Laughter Yoga Session
  • Objective: Explore the physical and emotional benefits of laughter.
  • Activity: Lead a short session of laughter yoga with fun exercises that encourages giggles.
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