Warhammer 40K For Kids

With the kids building away and going home very proud of the models they built I thought ok lets take this another step so I ‘presented’ them each with their own space marine codex.

I explained to them that it was full of cool pictures of the armour and colours of the space marines and told stories of their battles.

I gave the one with the least pictures to the oldest as she can now read, the next fewest pictures to the middle one as he is now starting to read and gets Savanna to help him and finally the last (and most recent one) to little Max. (At this stage Max is coming along for the ride as the little man just loves to be involved and tries so hard to keep up with the other two, that where possible I try to give him the opportunity to get stuck in with them)

Picking a Chapter

Ok this can go two ways and there is no right answer it pretty much depends on you and the child. They can pick a chapter from the book to follow or they can make one up of their own. I’ts up to you and them 🙂

Why I steered towards picking rather than creating…

I thought about this a bit before going down this path but I opted to have the kids pick a chapter from the book, to help tie their army and the project they were working on closer to the book and the 40K universe I was about to introduce them to. My thinking was if I say from the outset you can do anything you want that yes it would give them creative freedom, but that really wasn’t the purpose of this time we spend together. Rather I want to immerse them and teach them about a world and how to play within it. My thoughts on this is that there is plenty of time for their own wacky creations (and believe me they will be wacky!) when they have the skills and know how to execute their ideas a little more independently.

So how did they pick?

The same way we all do! They looked at the pictures and looked for a cool colour scheme.

And the results were…