The Sims 4: How To Build A Toddler's Imagination Skill

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• What Is The Imagination Skill?

• How To Gain The Imagination Skill

• How To Improve The Imagination Skill

• Benefits Of Leveling The Imagination Skill

• Toddler Traits That Help With Imagination

The Sims 4 is 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.

The Sims 4: How To Develop Toddler Skills

It's hard to be a tiny toddler in the big world of The Sims 4. Here, you can learn about the five Toddler Skills that are essential to growing up.

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 because toddlers 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 to pursue an artistic career later in their lives.

How To Gain The Imagination Skill

As with most other skills, the only way for a toddler to acquire Imagination is through performing an action related to the skill. The easiest way is to make them play with a toy, but making them watch TV would have the same effect.

Another quick way is to have 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 showing a 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:

• Watching TV.
• Listening to music.
• Playing with any toy.
• Playing at a dollhouse (alone or with other Sims).
• Looking at picture books.
• Reading toddler books.
• Being read to by a caretaker, both as a standalone action or as a bedtime story.
• Using a tablet to draw with Llama.

The ideal mood for improving on the Imagination skill is Playful. This mood can be achieved by having the toddler say silly things to another Sim.

Benefits Of Leveling The Imagination Skill

The Imagination skill is one of the toddler skills that has a total of five levels. Achieving each one will unlock a new set of benefits or rewards for the toddler.

Level

Benefit

One

None.

Two

Can now look at picture books and play at the Dollshouse with other Sims.

Three

Can now name Toys, Dolls, and Stuffed Animals.

Four

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 skill corresponds with a child's Creativity skill, and having a full Imagination skill will give a child Sim a head start of two points in Creativity.

Besides this, there are general rewards for achieving three points in all skills, as well as rewards for maxing them all out.

This will make your Sim more proficient in everything for the rest of their lives, so while there is considerable effort in achieving these things, the rewards are worth it.

These are the rewards you can get:

Trait

Requirements

Reward

Happy Toddler

Achieve three points in all toddler skills.

• Ten percent boost on all skill gains.
• Randomly get a Happy moodlet from remembering their happy toddlerhood.

Top Notch Toddler

Achieve maximum points in all toddler skills. (three for potty, and five for the rest).

• 25 percent boost on all skill gains.
• 25 percent boost on career gains.
• Randomly get a Happy moodlet from remembering their happy toddlerhood.

These improvements are valid 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 have different traits that dictate their behavior. Granted, these traits do not necessarily interrupt their development, but they do make them prone to gaining certain moodlets, or even aid in their ability 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 trait for learning imagination more quickly is the Silly trait. This trait makes toddlers very playful and slightly curious.

The Independent trait is 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.

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