Today's question from The Mason Jar is:
"When you played make-believe, what did you pretend to be?"
This is a really funny question when you are a theatre teacher, especially since I joined some students in a few improvisation games today. I was pretending to be part of a funny noise making machine and a girl who was afraid of a mouse.
When I was a little kid I played make-believe a lot. I had few playmate options as I was the youngest by six years and I didn't have any neighbor kids to play with. I lived in a world of books, dolls, Barbies, puppies, and kittens. I would put on puppet shows and plays. We have a family video where my dad is taking tickets and ushering my siblings to their seats to watch my newest puppet show...that I was making up on the spot. My mom managed to catch the whole thing on video...including one of my brothers booing to make me lose my little red headed temper. Big brothers. Always teasing. :)
I also loved to pretend to play "house". I'd take one of my dolls (either Cane Sugar, Tanja Rochelle, Pinky, Blue Boy, Vincent, Elizabeth, or Emily) to all of my siblings rodeos. Cane Sugar (named after Marilyn Monroe's character "Sugar Cane" in the old movie Some Like It Hot...I was a strange kid) or Tanja Rochelle were my favorites...even though mothers aren't supposed to have favorites. I had a basket I used as a car seat, an old diaper bag from my infancy, and the plastic ring from a Ring Pop that I used as a pacifier. It always embarrassed my brothers when I took my doll to the rodeo. It always annoyed me when the same little girl at every rodeo tried to take my doll. Those dolls were my best playmates and best friends in my games of make-believe. Sometimes the other kids at the rodeo would say that we should play "Power Rangers".... I didn't have T.V. so I didn't know what they were talking about, but I'd run around and pretend that I did. :) It was make-believe in every sense of the word. :)
So readers...when you played make believe, what did you pretend to be?
I pretended to be a mom, a mean orphanage lady, or my favorite was a baby. Unlike you however, my make believing was not very good. I think it is hazards of having older and younger siblings. Most times when playing with dolls or other things, I would just organize them, and then be tired of playing. I probably did the longest imagining with horses.
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