Pretend Play Director Pillows

'I'm not playing house with Jennifer any more -- she always wins!'

"Did I hear the dog in here?"

"He likes it."

"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

Little doctor.

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

'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.'

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

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

Imagination

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

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.

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

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

Athens Playhouse. Euclid is rehearsing a play he wrote about lust, money and lies. Investment Sales Office. Don't be obtuse! Face each other from this angle! He's a tough director. It's surprising that Euclid, the father of geometry, wrote about passion, money and deceit. I thought so too, until I read the script. It's a story about a pyramid scheme and a love triangle!

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

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

That kid's all business.

"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."

"I tested very high in playing."

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

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

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

"I'm playing "Explorer" and looking for the Elephant Cemetery: there should be really big bones there!"

"It's cute that yours has a Fire Island share, mine has the East Hampton Dream House."

'Let's play doctor. You be the primary care giver and I'll be the doctor you refer patients to.'

A little boy is crawling through a sandbox towards his mother as though he were dying of thirst in a desert.

"Tea parties are passé. I'm opening a craft brewery."

"Take a pill in the morning, in the afternoon and at night."

Kid to sister: 'I never play doctor anymore. There's too much paperwork.'

'Let's play business. I'll be the chairman of the board and you'll work for me and laugh whenever I tell a joke.'

'I'm not playing with Kevin anymore. He's suing me.'