Share your children's made-up worlds and stories to win a gorgeous red ukulele, signed picture book and limited edition print

We used to pretend that one of my dd's was a random stranger and we invited her along to wherever we were going. We used to enjoy getting to know where she was from and how she came to be alone in the big wide world. it was a game we played together especially whilst walking to places to make the walk more fun. Now we have a car we dom't have the time to play like that.... Or perhaps they have just grown out of it.

My lo loves pretending that she is a mermaid and is fighting against evil pirates

My daughter loves coming up with creative worlds especially when it involves her shopkins or barbies. It always involves having a picnic or going to the beach. however when the mummy barbie tells her children off she always makes it sound like me haha

My son was big into his trains a few years back and we have a collection of them to rival Hamleys probably, he would sit for hours with track all over the floor and talking to the trains and telling them where they were to go and on which track and why.

My DDs (6 and 4) usually set up their imaginative play in which they recreate scenarios from school - they play the teachers and they friends usually crop up as being very naughty and getting into trouble. My DDs, are always the 'good' ones though!

My 2 year old does the bedtime routine with her baby, puts her on the toilet, baths her and puts her to bed, even acts out her being naughty afterwards!

our little Chap likes to hide our things in the laundry basket so that they have gone into Space forever on a mission with Batman and Nanny! we have to check and re-check the laundry before shoving it into the washing machine, we have had a few near misses, the most recent being a calculator hiding in a pillow case!

My 6 yr old DD is very imaginative and creative in things she does. She is a cheer leader and will use her shopkins to create routines ( i have to take photos) or she has done the nativity play with them too. I'm quite looking forward to the next scene she creates.

My daughter loves having pretend sleep overs with her friends Kitty, Isabelle and Bunny. She used to say they were princesses trapped in the castle and the floor was the sea and they couldn't fall in as they would drown?? She was only 2 yrs old then, she did also have a terrible nightmare once that the police were going to take her sister away, she woke up crying her eyes out. Strange as I am a police officer and obviously that would never happened.

my daughter created a horrific castle where really spoy things live and an ogre lived there called fran, so it was loosely based on her uncle , my brother

THEY HAVE SECRET FRIENDS WHO THEY TALK TO

My four year old believes he's a train and that it's been Christmas for the past 6 months ...

My eldest, who is 9 now, has always been very imaginative, and always used to have imaginative friends. Although she's older now, she still loves to immerse herself in writing in diaries and making up stories etc. My youngest (3), is just getting into role play and loves to imitate things she has seen on TV. She's been reenacting Frozen for about three months now!

My daughter loves playing with the frozen dolls but she does stuff like taking them to the hairdressers and doing their nails. I enjoy it to ❤

I love the look of this book!! I've seen the promotion doing the rounds and it looks so sweet. I love the idea of the competition including the Octopus ukulele!! Genius!

My DD has just turned 9, she loves books and anything related to books. She's long been a fan of chapter books but has an affection for picture books as she usually shares these with younger family members and friends, not to mention enjoying them herself!

When she was just 5 years old she decided to set herself a challenge to read 365 books in 10 months which we genuinely thought was nuts but she finished in 10 months, then she challenged herself to write a book which she did in 4 months! I've got to say as 28 year old who has always wanted to pen her own book, having your 6/7 year old daughter beat you to the punch is not what i had at all expected!!

She likes to write stories including animals, in far off distant lands with lots of adventure, some turmoil to overcome but ultimately happy and mysterious!

She's always entering writing competitions and she's set herself another reading challenge this year. The girl loves books, reading and writing.

Every day she's a different character and i have to try to keep up with who i'm meant to be in relation to that! Trust me i end up saying 'what? wait, who am i again?!' a lot. hahaha.

My son Tommy made up a story where his Great Auntie Janet's ginger cat Jasper got stuck in a tree. Tommy tried everything to help Jasper and in the end did the biggest jump he could on his trampoline to rescue Jasper the cat. Great Auntie Janet was so happy that she gave Tommy a slice of Battenburg cake and a glass of milk to say thank you!

My 5yo DS has multiple imaginary world games. Most of them are based around animals. His current favourite is Eagle Rescue, in which he is usually an eagle, although sometimes a vulture. In that world there are every kind of bird, and also a frog, because that is his little sister's favourite animal so she can play too! When he is Eagle he is usually talking about looking after all his 14 babies, and having lots of jobs to do and things to fix! He also plays Kingdom Adventures, which is all about dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, Sea Creatures, about a tank in an aquarium, and Vulture Pyramid, which is about a vulture and a peacock, who meet a snail, a slug and some ants. He is lost in imaginary play all the time - even the tassels on his jogging bottoms can each become characters in some adventure or other!

My daughter recently told me a very elaborate story about some Meercats that lived in her Chocolate Chip bread roll! She is 4!

ds and his story-- 'the boy who set a tree on fire'
me :-O
ds- It's OK it was an old tree

he also wrote one called the Fat Woman Who Could Never Stop Eating lord knows where he gets his inspiration.

My almost 3 year old loves picking up a book and reading it to me... Any book... his current favourite is telling me all about the sleeping trucks & diggers and what they dream about!

My daughter has an elaborate game of pretending to go camping (not that she has ever been...) with an assorted array of animals that come and visit her in the tent whilst she feeds them cornflakes (!)

My eldest had a whole group of adventure stories that started with doing a very big sneeze and travelling somewhere, usually to outer space!

Mine has animal societies and sets up Schleich animals all over the floor. Sometimes the horses are in charge and are the leaders, sometimes it's sea creatures. It's great listening to them 'talking' to each other. I have recorded him chatting as I want him to be able to listen to himself and his fab imagination when he's a grown man.

ds2 (8) inhabits many different universes I've been informed; unfortunately he rarely seems to inhabit the real world so getting him to do mundane things like homework, eating supper, tidying up and so on are the problem (although strangely brushing his teeth isn't - seems that that is important in all his other universes too!). I suspect he is one of the few children that has had his student of the week award for being 'mindboggling' (yup, that's actually written on his certificate!).

Yesterday he came home from school after club via Mars, Saturn and the Marianas trench, which is why he was a little late. I have no idea which route or period of history we will be coming home via today - maybe the Amazon or the SandDunes or Ancient Egypt... Every day is different!

His bedroom has been turned into its own country - complete with a name, an army (to defend it against his big brother!), a navy - made from some strange old bits of I don't know what that he picked up from the local scrap store, parades, a lot of group reading (he is sometimes late when we're going to school because he's dashed back upstairs to lay out his cuddly toys so they can read, mostly his favourite books and Beano comics!), and all sorts of different adventures.

The downside is that he isn't very good at making friends at school - this is the first term that he's actually talked about having friends of his own that he has played with at play time - he usually plays by himself and creates adventures so that he spends most of his break times discovering new universes too... And although he has a lovely time and is always very content with his own company, I do worry that he is missing out by not having friends to share his adventures with - and maybe he'd have a chance to explore the real world and have fun doing so too if he had friends to do it with.

Her imagination is good anyway, but add in a prop and it's out of this world..Sometimes literally

Her grandma sometimes takes her to the charity shop, most kids would want a toy or a book but she bypasses these and comes home with something weird and wacky. She always has a back story for it, what it is and who owned it, what they used it for and how it came to be in the charity shop.