Imaginative Play

With their imaginations...

our house turns into a castle with a beautiful princess and her prince.  They dance and sing and fight dragons together.

I am the baby, Emily is the mom, and Andrew is the dad.  I get to cry and scream and do whatever I want while they take care of me.



two superheroes/heroines that fly around the house (or hospital room or outside), fighting "bad" guys, and putting them in "jail."

we all take pretend naps.

Andrew drives to work on his yellow car.

Emily puts on all of Amelia's old clothes and dances and Andrew puts on her tutu and together they dance around the house like ballerinas.

a little ball turns into a basketball and our hallway becomes a basketball court, then it turns into a baseball and our house into a baseball diamond.

the bed becomes a trampoline.

boxes of toys are really mountains to climb.

nursery rhymes are acted out - Three Little Monkeys, Little Bo Peep, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

our rooms turn into jungles and the kids become cheetahs chasing various animals.

towers are made with blocks.

their stuffed animals become "babies," "spiders," "monsters," and playmates.

the house is their stage and Lion King is their production.

words are built using letters, like in Word World.

fires are fought.

songs are more than just background music and brooms become guitars.

socks are puppets.

With their imaginations, magic happens and our world becomes a giant playground.