Pretend Play Pioneer Gifts

"Hitch up your horse, Tex. It's time for lunch."

"Just be yourself."

"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.'

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

'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.'

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

Imagination

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

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

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.

"I tested very high in playing."

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

'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!!!"

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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.'

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

'Maggots.' - playing doctor

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

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

'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.'