Tell MegaBloks the funniest imaginary play scenarios your children have come up with - chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

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Watching children grow up and learn to play in creative, interesting ways can be heart-warming, but also hilarious. MegaBloks would like to hear about the funniest scenarios your kids have come up with when they've been playing make believe.

Here’s what MegaBloks have to say: “Every parent wants what’s best for their children. They want to build them up, and so do we at Mega Bloks. In stacking tall towers, children learn to develop their creativity. In telling stories with characters, they’re exploring their imaginations. And in building make-believe worlds where they can be the hero, they’re also building up the confidence to be anything!”

So, whether you've eavesdropped on your kids copying something you've done in an uncannily accurate way or you’ve been gobsmacked by them coming up with something that wouldn't be out of place in a soap opera, share your children’s funniest imaginary play stories with MegaBloks below.

All those who post on the thread will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 Toys R Us voucher.

Thanks, and good luck with the prize draw!

MNHQ

My DD plays school registers - she often plays with us but I often overhear her telling her toys off when they don't answer her.

This thread is brilliant - just spent a good 10 mins chuckling as I read through :) My son doesn't have any siblings yet - so loves it when we get together with friends - he & they will race up upstairs & create their own crazy games.. we'll sneak up a few moments later & eavesdrop at the door to see what they're up to! A favourite is drawing the curtains & the pair of them getting into bed & reading each other a story - if only he were so keen to get into bed like that at bedtime!!
Recently though, as I tiptoed up the stairs - I heard my son say 'My Mummy's got a big fat belly!' - charming!! Serves me right for eavesdropping I guess :)

Dd is 3 and has recently invented an imaginary dragon that follows our car. She tells me to go faster so it won't catch us. I'm then required to tell it off as per her instructions. I have to count to 5 (as we do with her) and if it's still following us I have to put it on an imaginary naughty step.

This morning she burst in to my bedroom to tell me she had found the purple creatures and I had to go and see. She took me in to her room, pulled back the curtains and pointed to the sunrise.

I just love how kids interpret the world around them.

Using the sofa cushions as surfboards in Hawaii (I wish!)

My 5 year old daughter loves to recreate our adventures and days out with her 2 year old sister and 9 year old brother. We went away to celebrate the youngests birthday and stayed in a hotel. I overheard her reacting all the following weekend. "Come along everyone, let me show you your room". The other 2 do as they are told. "This room costs 20 hundred and there is an amazing breakfast in the morning, now lie down and go to sleep"

Brexit renacted with soft toys( Boris was a dolphin)was a particular favourite.

Dd's song version of Old McDonald's farm is getting increasingly elaborate. His menagerie of unusual farm beasts (dragon, butterfly, bat, etc) is accompanied by a hangar of aircraft (and bubbles) along with some more challenging noises (house, tree, cloud) and various family members.

Pretty much every game my little girl invents involves her teddies, playing schools or cafes and the other day one was in trouble for complaining! Really makes me laugh

My daughter was playing with 2 Barbies, nattering away. She stopped and turned to me and asked 'can 2 girls marry each other?' I paused a second and went to explain and she continued before I spoke 'like a girl and a girl and a boy and a boy?' I was about to do a full speech on love and I get the first part of my answer- 'yes because..' She literally just went 'ok mummy', turned back round and her Barbies were married, off on their holidays and had just bought a pet iguana :S

Heartwarming, cute, but also a little funny :)

When ds was 5 or so, he and his friend used to like to set up a horse showjumping course with cushions, brooms, boxes etc and then one of them would attach dog leads to the top of the other and 'ride' them round the course. Any adult around would be pressed into service as a commentator

My little man Mason is only 13 months so anything he says right now is still only baby babble but he has a baby walker with a phone on the front and he always pulls it off and hands it to me with a cheeky look in his eye and waits for me to have a conversation on the phone... usually to Santa telling him how good he has been and then I pass it back and it happens about 15 more times :)

When I had not long had DS2, I caught DS1, then aged 4, "breastfeeding" his teddy bear :)

My children play endless imaginary games, even at the age of 11. Mostly it involves teachers, especially Victorian teachers, or evacuee scenarios. I have caught them playing Jeremy Corbyn versus Donald Trump though, which is a bit odd.

Only yesterday my DD & DS (8 & 5) were playing some kind of roleplay game & I could hear them chatting really amicably....left them to it for ages thinking how friendly it sounded...then nipped up to check if they wanted tea & overheard their conversation,........

Basically Henry was a giant fat Poo & she was a killer toilet trying to drown him :/

My DDs love nothing better than playing schools and they role play as their teachers - but why I always end being the 'naughty child who's always in trouble with teacher' I have no idea!

My 2 year old ds currently plays shop in his kitchen. He then takes his shopping bag to his BMW/jaguar, actually his Thomas scooter, depending on his mood (his grandparents cars) but then his "car" will read down and he pretends to go in the boot to get his tools to fix it. He will then indicate making a clicking noise and scoot off. It amazes me watching him.

Dd dressed in pirate fancy dress sticking her ear to the cat flap telling me she controlled the wind outside. It was pirate wind you see.

My daughter has two imaginary friends Arabella and Jack. They come with us to most places and she involves them in her games.

One day she told me that Arabella was at home sick, so couldn't play.
She was creating an elaborate story where Jack was the Prince and I was a dragon. She was a brave princess who had a sister. Remembering that Arabella was sick at home, she told me we would just have to pretend Arabella was with us!!

After recently taking our 4 year old to a science exhibition about meteorology, he has now turned a corner of the lounge into a replica exhibition, complete with ticket table, a shop, information and, of course, a very friendly scientist! Everybody must get a ticket before having a look round and nobody leaves without an arm-full of leaflets and a chest full of stickers he collected whilst there.

I had the midwife round yesterday (I am having a home birth any day now!!) and even she left with several brochures about the British Antarctic Survey, and a large sticker on the front of her uniform declaring 'geologists do it on the rocks'.

DS told me yesterday that Zebra's are bad, and we I queried what zebras
had done to become bad he told me because they're in jail. He presumed because of the stripes they were in prison!

So many of the DDs' role play games would start with "Let's pretend Mummy and Daddy are dead!" I blame Disney.

I think the funniest memory I have of imaginary play is the time that my two boys spent several hours constructing an enormous post-apocalyptic 'factory', using just about every toy they owned. Most alarmingly, it was entirely staffed by rubber spiders and snakes...

Well my boys reenacted the gruffalo for me yesterday - priceless

My son was playing cafes and started hitting the cooker and shouting 'this b**y button's not working - I have no idea where he got that from...