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

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SorchaMumsnet · 01/02/2017 09:33

Children are natural storytellers. To celebrate the publication of fantastical picture book Also an Octopus, we're asking you to share the stories your children create.

Also an Octopus is a story about... how to build a story! Every story needs a character, so why not a ukulele-playing octopus who wants to build a spaceship out of glitter and waffles? From award-winning illustrator Benji Davies and author Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Also an Octopus is a funny, warm-hearted tale all about storytelling; the perfect picture book for imaginative readers.

Walker Books have teamed up with Octopus Ukulele to offer Mumsnetters the chance to win a tentacle-tastic prize that will set imaginations soaring! Octopus Ukulele create the best beginner instruments around, perfect for creative play. Their ukuleles come in lots of different colours and we’ve got a gorgeous red one to give away.

For a chance to win a signed copy of Also an Octopus, a limited edition print AND an Octopus Ukulele just tell us: what imaginative worlds do your children dream up? Five runners-up will win a copy of Also an Octopus and a limited edition print.

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Share your children's made-up worlds and stories to win a gorgeous red ukulele, signed picture book and limited edition print
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ButterflyOfFreedom · 02/02/2017 07:28

DS's imaginary worlds nearly always include animals - so he'll be in the jungle being chased by a lion, on the farm rolling around in the mud with the pigs, or in 'Dinosaur World' fighting with a T-rex!
He can turn any household object into a potential predator and I myself have even become 'mummy polar bear' when I put my (white) dressing gown on!!

gazingatthestars · 02/02/2017 05:38

My dd thinks the reflection of lights in the window are monsters lurking outside and that goldilocks is hiding in all our beds...

boptanana · 01/02/2017 23:15

My dds are secret spies with baby dolls as cover for their true identities. The changing bag is full of secret gadgets disguised as a bottle, rattle, etc!

CMOTDibbler · 01/02/2017 23:03

DS had a very long running bath based game about a family of sea monsters with mummy, twin sons (Splashy and Washy) who ate lots of squid and got up to all sorts of things. I rather miss them!

ASqueakingInTheShrubbery · 01/02/2017 22:23

DD, 3, wobbled while I was helping her to get dressed. I asked if she'd been eating the fruit of the wibbly-wobbly tree. She giggled, and told me that she had. It's brown, and juicy, and tastes of berries and sticky things. Every time something overbalances or wobbles now, she says it's been eating the fruit of the wibbly-wobbly tree and invents a bit more detail about it. I think it grows at the seaside, or sometimes at the childminder's house.

greenapples · 01/02/2017 22:03

Once when she was still a wee young thing at pre school, (now 6 going on 16), my dd insisted on taking her doll that day. It was rather unusual taking toys in (no one really seemed to do it as the kids spent most time outside making mud pies). When I asked why Grazia (I have no idea why she called her baby that name and no I don't read magazines) had to come I was told in no uncertain terms, 'her Daddy was killed by pirates and her Mummy is milking cows, so I need to look after her'. ''Ooooh ok," was all I could muster.

finova · 01/02/2017 21:45

My child makes up imaginary tales about nursery. He often claims there were no teachers there! He tells me all sorts of naughty things his classmates supposedly do!
If anything gets broken or damaged at home he usually claims that a witch flew in the window and did it!

Firewall · 01/02/2017 21:44

dS is always in a land of his own! He will use cardboard boxes to create his own world and even make inventions and props with junk! He sings and uses all his animal cuddly toys to join him on adventures. Battling wozzidorks (baddies he made up) that shoot into his ships or whatever it is!

asuwere · 01/02/2017 20:59

DS2 has always been a daydreamer and doesn't always pay attention. He would often say something 2mins after we'd just discussed it. We started joking that he must have been away in 'DS2-land'. He totally took this on and started describing this land in detail, he would incorporate it in games at nursery, then write about his adventures when he started school! It's been an ongoing thing for years, sometimes I do wonder if he thinks it is a real place :)

WhereTheFuckIsWonderWoman · 01/02/2017 20:10

On Sunday DD, 6 built a den in the sitting room. Her home had been destroyed and she'd managed to escape to the wilderness where she befriended a fox and became a master forager. She had managed to rescue her favourite books from her bedroom before she fled and so she enjoyed a very happy existence living off fruit and nuts with her fox and books for company. In time she taught herself to use the wood that she found to carve plates, cups and cutlery. I think she produced a stool as well. As the day wore on she discovered a phone battery that had fallen from a hiker's phone along with a discarded piece of metal with which she was able to build her very own computer... on which she wrote her story Grin

foxessocks · 01/02/2017 18:54

My dd likes to play imaginary birthday parties. She blows up imaginary balloons, has imaginary friends over, makes an imaginary cake etc. It's very sweet.