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 little girl lined up all her teddies and said to the class "now you lot quiet down and now listen to me..." hmm...

My daughter loves Busy Town and also the story about the huge bread - we had to pretend that we are inside a huge bread (and we are living in the bread :)

My DC has a close relative who does a lot of aid work related to Syria and refugee camps. Whilst they were abroad we made a small word scene of a desert with palm trees, camels, "refugees", army vehicles etc so he could get to grips with what this relative does.

He played with it for hours and elaborated greatly. The best moment was when the Thunderbirds had to come and take one of the aid workers to Scotland to get more food parcels because CatWoman bombed Syria. It was touch and go for a while.

Throwing cars at the cat. Fucks knows what is going on in that tiny mind of his.

My 3 year old DD is highly allergic to nuts. Recently whilst playing shops with me she dead pan asked me (the shopkeeper) if the wooden cake I had just sold her had nuts in. I was so proud of her!

my little one has started holding tea parties for his dinosaurs, and serves....crayons...
can't wait for him to be chatting a bit more to go with it!

My youngest has a pterodactyl (flying dinosaur) and although he knows what it is as he's obsessed with dinosaurs, calls it "Seagull'. Which I'm sure is to wind me up because he knows I'm afraid of them. He likes to take it on journeys and pretends it's flying and telling any-one that will listen that its "seagull". He has real conversations with it and deep discussions about what they will do each day.

Whenever DD (6) and DS (4) do roleplay, they adopt weird American-accented TV voices. She must always be called "Johnson" and he is called "Star Wars". Their roleplay usually involves lots of lava.

DS asked for a packet of Pom Bear crisps the other day, but rather than eating them set them all out in various positions on the table, and between various ramblings I heard "Winter is coming...." I did worry where my 5 year old had been watching Game of Thrones, or maybe secretly can actually read and had been through all the books when we were asleep... But later I heard "and he huffed and puffed and blew the house down" so somehow it had become the 3 little pigs.. Or maybe he realised I was listening and it was just a cover!!

When DD3 was about 6 she went through a phase of playing mummies and she had 8 children and I was her sister and had 3 children. One day she had been playing "the game" alone upstairs and then came downstairs saying her children were all crying because she was dying. I though this was a bit morbid and so distracted her with a drink. Later that day, as I put her to bed, I went into her bedroom which she shares with DD2. They have bunk beds and all around DD3 bed, she had opened and stuck sanitary towels to the wooden frame. Trying not to be angry, I asked why she had done it - evidently, after she had "told her children she was dying" she had pretended she was in hospital and the towels were "bandages" because she was bleeding to death. I couldn't tell her off as I was trying so hard not to laugh, although it did worry me slightly at the level of her imagination.

I once walked into the living room to see my son holding my breast pump to his stomach in order to procure apple juice!

We often have my niece and nephew round to play with my son, she is at that age where she is really into role play and the two boys have to suffer her 'make up sessions', with hair bands and the like, they put up with it for a quiet life and hope she gets bored quickly!!

My youngest son likes putting nappies on his soft toys and then change them all, assembly style. Thankfully he is pretty careful so we can reuse the same nappies.

I recently had the pleasure of playing "Mums and Dads" with my 3 year old. He was going to be the Mum, and I was the Dad. Because it's Halloween I had some wigs out, so I handed him one to make the mummy look more authentic, although he shoved it down his trousers and when I asked why, he replied "it's the hairy bit where your willy is supposed to be"
I was amused as he was so content to continue playing with a wig in his trousers!

My son has just been diagnoised with autism and doesnt really like playing with anything else but mega bloks.
He loves looking at them feeling them he loves his sister building them up and then him knocking them down.
But the most funny thing he does is he likes putting a blanket in a cardboard box pretending its a boat and taking his bloks with him. Sometimes he pretends the blocks are cars other times he likes to count them. We all build together because everyone enjoys mega bloks.
My son never goes anywhere without bloks and its one of the only things that keep him entertained so we all love mega blocks in our house.

My DS (6) has an old box in our garage. It contained a washing machine that we had delivered 3 years ago. I am not allowed to throw it out as every spring/summer the box comes out and becomes numerous things. When he was 3 it was usually just a house with the lid facing forwards as the door, this last year it was an ark and all the creatures from the toy box found their way outside to be rescued from the flood. I'm hoping the box survives another winter in the garage as it is lovely to see my DS using his imagination instead of being in front of the tv or on a gadget.

we were all instructed by the youngest to be on all fours and play horsey , was all great fun until we had to trot then run, very sore knees all round, but hilarious to watch each other trying to run on our knees and hands.

My youngest had a feeding tube up her nose for several years.

Watching friends children attend the same with a hard plastic straw was always entertaining!

using their cuddly toys as children in a school - there was always one that was in trouble and was the naughty one!

DD still at the age of nearly 6 makes me do silly voices pretending to be cOmpleteky inanimate things. When she was younger I had to be plastic bags, a bit of litter, a wall, a twig, a sock, a bottle, literally anything. And I'd have to build a character for them and talk to her in a silly voice. She still now makes me be the voice of her shoes, and I have to be both left shoe and right shoe talking to each other and her.

My daughter went through a phase of wanting to be a dog and would make us all join in. It was funny to begin with, but got testing after a while!

I found DS (3) rubbing a gluestick all over the palms of his hands. I asked him what he was doing. "I'm Spiderman, Mammy. I can climb up the walls!"

All ok my lovely?
Yes Mum
Can I get you anything?
No Mum
I'm just going to pop upstairs to see you
Mum, really, I'm busy with my babies, we are in our Princess castle (Mega Blocks) and I'm teaching them how to be polite and not rude, so they need to learn to be quiet - Can you be quiet Mum?

Errrrrrrrrr

The other day when my DS wanted to get our attention he stood up and commanded: 'Eyes on me, everyone!' His teacher would have been proud. I might try it myself next time I need people to listen as it worked!

My daughter used to stand on top of the slide in the garden and read a sermon to the neighbours.....