Who are you? Playtime

Tara's Gallery prompt this week is Playtime!

Ever since he could talk, Small Boy has been role-playing. I have lost count of the times I've asked him "Who are you?".

One minute he's a knight, the next a builder, a chef, a prince, a vet. One day he was spinning around in the kitchen and I asked what he was up to. "I'm a microwave!" he said. Some of the best have been home-made costumes. He's been covered in foil, had multiple pairs of pants on his head and dressed up in my silky tops and heels, all in the name of make-believe.

So that's what playtime is for us. We all get involved in his narratives, he's a pretty bossy director. Everyone has to be someone - Small Girl often ends up as a dragon.

His imagination is boundless. It comes in very handy when persuading him it's bath time ("Dragons need to clean their scales or the humans will smell them coming") or tidy up time ("A good builder always keeps his site clean") or breakfast time ("No knight can go into battle without energy!").

I've captured many of his characters on camera - some are already here: astronaut, tribesman.

This post is also featured in NurtureStore's Play Academy - great for playtime inspiration! Which I clearly need.