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My 3 year old boy is always 'going to work' - often as a hairdresser, a tesco delivery man or in the chip shop.

my daughter has a imaginary friend called shanina.

At the moment if you ask my four year old to tell you a story it always stars once upon a time there was an alien and his flying saucer, i think its because his bedroom is decorated in a space theme haha.

Other pretend worlds are super hero land, and he loves making a den at the bottom of my bed.

My youngest son has an imaginary castle and his own army, and a dragon in his dungeon! Good for him, ha!

We have games with DD, 3, who gets her money box, empties it,and the all 1p pieces become "wumpies" who are little insects that have to race down the slide in the garden, and the winners get spent at the shop! :)

My youngest DS used to have his own imaginary world where he was the king and all his toys, trucks, books etc were part of this world.
He used to lay things out on his bedroom floor and would act out little scenes of everyday life in his world.

Both my dds are good at writing imaginative stories. As they are both cat obsessed, the stories usually have to include a cat.

They play out scenes from Scooby Doo in the park.

My DS loves role playing and imaginary worlds. Our favourite is when we pretend the living room floor is an ocean full of weird and wonderful creatures. We have to cross the ocean to get to the treasure before the pirates.

Dd1 said "Armbow" for "Elbow"

Dd2 used to use "Breakbik" for a broken biscuit. Usually in the context of taking an extra one "only a breakbik".

My son who is 3 loves to pay shop/cafe and pretends his scooter is his car for making deliveries and picking up shopping. But the cutest is just watching the little storylines he comes up with playing with his toys. He will either loosely follow a story he knows or make up something totally random. Like when out cat watches him play trains and suddenly a giant cat has invaded and sheriff woody needs to rescue Thomas. I love watching him and joining in.

My two love playing with 'play-doh' and that sets their imaginary world for that day.
Their favourite is either a café / restaurant / bakery / shop etc.
So they make cakes / biscuits, decorate them, place on trays and make price labels.
So we have tables, order pads, plates, money and so on.

The role play will be about a recent experience, are they a chef ? a customer ? a waitress ? a check out person etc. it also helps them practice what they have learnt in school.

We write out menu posters, some are kept, others improved upon.
Often the 'world' is repeated, improved etc.

At the moment they use knowledge to make their worlds, but how will we get to the moon, fly a plane ............................

the boys' main made up world is one where they go to work as builders. they think they are building the best funfair ever. they are always shouting 'have you made my pieces, i need to go to work'

My 4 year old pretends he is a Pokemon trainer and throws foil made balls around the house catching Pokemon

My youngest pretends he has two dolphin friends that are in the bath with him. It's his latest thing. The noises they all make in there are hilarious.

My granddaughter has a menagerie of imaginary animal pets. She's in reception and at the end of the first term, walking home with her mum she started crying saying she had left her spider at school. Thinking it was something she had made and seeing how upset she was, her mum walked back to school, bereft of teachers by this time. She looked round the cloakroom area with the caretaker and after seeing nothing, her mum was trying to comfort her by saying the teacher will be looking after it over the holidays when my granddaughter went over to a peg and said here he is and returned triumphantly with an invisible spider!

They put on shows acting out stories and use a wardrobe as a time machine.

DS enjoys pretending he's moving out (I assume to live with his grandma) he will pick up his bag and tell me "bye bye".

Our favourite from DD was when she would dash off to fetch something from her room happily announcing she would be 'back in a chippy!'.

Dd had lots of imaginary friends and pets...And told her reception teacher she had twin sisters who she wasn't allowed to talk about???? She would also routinely explain in great detail that mummy was pregnant again... I have only been pregnant twice, with her and her brothers (twins). She would also say that the brothers were leaving home soon... Not that keen on them.

Would lead to some very interesting chats at pick up as the school were also keen to support a family in need....

Now she 11 she writes amazing stories and has mellowed a bit on her brothers.

My favorite words were sper-doid-dor and when in the car 'good in-ber'cation' with a thumbs up :)

DD1 loves to play 'wilderness explorer' games right on the sitting room floor (it began one rainy day when she was feeling unwell). Our rug is an island, the floor around it choppy seas, her rucksack filled with essential adventuring gear. We have to 'forage' for food and 'light campfires' and 'build shelters' for the stormy weather. One day the 'storm' meant that foraging finds were slim -- and DD1 was very anxious. So she invented not only a canoe to enable her to search further afield, but a well stocked village just down the river. Crisis averted, and now we can play wilderness explorers every day without fear of privation!

My DD had the most amazing world in which her imaginary friend Colbie was l
always just around the corner. He had done everything we had done and always bigger and better. He came to see her when we were away and then dashed home to Australia. He provided such a rich imaginary life - now 8 years on I so miss him. He was around for about 2 years when DD was 3-5. He lived amongst sparkle and endless mountains of marshmallows.

My two granddaughters invent midnight feasts in school dorms! Neither go to boarding school!

My 3 year old like to pretend to be batman and I am a witch (not too big a stretch of the imagination!), and I have to try and turn him and other characters in to frogs!