Learning To Pretend Play Prints

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

Kid with 'Little Wellness Facilitator' kit

Resourceful toddler

Boy makes snowman around a lamp post.

Little doctor.

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

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

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

'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.

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

Imagination

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

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

Building Blocks.

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

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

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

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

"It's alive! Alive!!"

"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."

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

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

"I tested very high in playing."

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

'AQ popgun? I want a field model Browning pump chambered for the 3-inch magnum load.'