Learning To Pretend Play Gifts

A boy dressed as a cowboy riding a stick horse encounters a stick with a cow's skull at the end lying on the ground.

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

"Go away, he's not done playing Cowboys and Indians yet."

"We're playing doctor. Do you have any old magazines for our waiting room?"

Tuning Up for the Air Guitar Competition

Resourceful toddler

Boy makes snowman around a lamp post.

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Little doctor.

"You can build it with me, but you can't wreck it with me."

'Off hand I'd say she needs re-stuffing.'

"I will give you the specimen some other time!"

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

'Is THIS the way you plan to spend your peak learning years?'

Child makes a toy and frightens himself.

Sorry, I've said all I can say in this medium.

"You always get to be the therapist! I never get to be the therapist!"

'Stop purring I can't hear your heart beat.'

'All of our Little Doctor medical kits are on sale. Since the Healthcare bill passed, sales of the kits have been poor.'

'Because of the mess, 'Mr. Potato Salad-Head' never took off.'

Imagination

"I'm afraid you have a condition called 'googly-eyes'."

Building Blocks.

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

'Don't bite it. I have to check Daddy next.'

"Jonathan! I've told you not to put your space toys in the freezer and pretend they're on the ice planet!"

Babble. Pbl. Babama. Bbb. Brb. Bod.

"Let's play make-believe. I'll diagnose you with a life-threatening illness, then cure you with a wonder-drug that turns out to be a placebo."

"As night falls, You return to claim what isn't yours. . . come at me, sea devil!!!"

That kid's all business.

"It's alive! Alive!!"

"I tested very high in playing."

He kept pretending he was going to work when he was just running errands.

"Fellow graduates, when I look at you, I see future princesses, ninjas, wizards, superheroes, and zombies."