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The Sims 4is all about delivering gameplay that balances realism with simplicity to give players the best life simulation experience. In this game, you can control every aspect of your Sims' lives, including their lifespans and how each of their life stages should go.
Toddlerhood is an often overlooked life stage that is super fun to play through in the game, and it can be challenging enough if you set out to make your toddlers accomplished Sims. One of the skills your toddlers can acquire from their youngest age is the Imagination skill, a skill that can make their world a little more colorful.
What Is The Imagination Skill?
The Imagination skill is what allows toddlers to create little worlds in their heads. This skill is important because it is the basis for creativity later in life, but also becausetoddlers can learn how to read through it.
Imaginative toddlers enjoy immersing themselves in playing, and they can even give their toys fun names.
Teaching your toddler the Imagination skill will help greatly if you plan for your Sim topursue an artistic careerlater in their lives.
How To Gain The Imagination Skill
As with most other skills, the only way for a toddler to acquire Imagination is throughperforming an action related to the skill. The easiest way is to make themplay with a toy, but making themwatch TVwould have the same effect.
Another quick way is tohave anolder Sim read a toddler book to them. These can be bought through any bookcase. As soon as they perform the action, they will acquire the skill, and then you can begin to work on it to raise it.
Most Imagination skill actions are marked with an icon showinga thought bubble with three stars in it, which is the icon for the Imagination skill in the Skills panel.
How To Improve The Imagination Skill
There are a handful of things a toddler can do to improve their Imagination skill. It is fairly easy to have toddlers raise their Imagination skill alone, but some of the activities do require help from a caretaker.
These are all the actions that will improve a toddler’s Imagination skill:
The ideal moodfor improving on the Imagination skillis Playful. This mood can be achieved by having the toddlersay silly thingsto another Sim.
Benefits Of Leveling The Imagination Skill
The Imagination skill is one of the toddler skills that hasa total of five levels. Achieving each one will unlock a new set of benefits or rewards for the toddler.
None.
Two
Can now look at picture books and play at the Dollshouse with other Sims.
Can now name Toys, Dolls, and Stuffed Animals.
Can now read toddler books by themselves.
Five
With an imagination fully developed, the toddler gains the ability to View Art.
Additionally, there are benefits to maxing out this skill when the Sim ages up. The Imagination skillcorresponds with a child’s Creativity skill, and having a full Imagination skill will give a child Sim ahead start of two points in Creativity.
Besides this, there aregeneral rewards for achieving three pointsin all skills, as well asrewards for maxing them all out.
This will make your Sim moreproficient in everything for the rest of their lives, so while there is considerable effort in achieving these things, the rewards are worth it.
Top Notch Toddler
Achievemaximum pointsin all toddler skills. (three for potty, and five for the rest).
These improvements arevalid throughout the Sim’s entire lifespan.A good toddlerhood makes it easier to set a Sim up for success later on.
Toddler Traits That Help With Imagination
Toddlers havedifferent traits that dictate their behavior. Granted, these traits do not necessarily interrupt their development, but they do make themprone to gaining certain moodlets, or even aid in theirability to develop certain skills.
Toddlers can have just one trait, and you will have to select it from the list of available options regardless of whether you make them in Create-A-Sim or if they are born in-game.
The recommended traitfor learning imagination more quickly isthe Silly trait. This trait makes toddlers very playful and slightly curious.
TheIndependent traitis also a good trait to give a toddler if you want them to learn faster without any help from caretakers. It works equally for every skill.
