Pretend Play Pioneer Prints

"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.

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

'You're doing a play in kindergarten?'

"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.'

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

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

Imagination

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

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.

"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.'

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

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

That kid's all business.

"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

"We're doing a skit of Peter Rabbit at school. I'm the potting soil."

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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