What did you used to pretend when you were a kid. I could find a nook in the woods

[applegrove]

with my cousin and quickly make out a floor plan for it to be the fort of our dreams. We never completed the building part though we did play house in them. I also used to put a towel on my head and pretend I didn't have short hair. Once I even wore the towel to dinner... nobody said anything for the longest time until my nanny could not keep from laughing.

[mia]

1. When I was 7, I took my brother (5) and sister (3) into the woods that was next to our house.

I was sure that "Our Lady of Lourdes" would appear, as I went to a school by that name. When she didn't, I resumed the superman tryouts with my younger siblings. We jumped down increasing numbers of stairs and all of the pillows I could find in the house were at the bottom of the landing. i was in-charge as the oldest and I don't remember parents being around much in those days.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Lourdes

[rogerballard]

2. Lost In Space

That was a hot show when I was a kid, my younger brother and I would pretend our bedroom was the Jupiter 2, it had two huge windows and a small desk in front of the windows, we would draw knobs on cardboard for the control knobs and we had walkie talkies we could talk on back and forth, that was fun!
We would also go to the basement, found a box that he could fit in and I would whip him around the basement, pretending all the while it was the house that fell on the witch from the "Wizard of Oz".

[HopeHoops]

3. I could never find nookie in the woods.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I'm bettin' you could never find wood in the nookie, neither.

[HopeHoops]

7. Never looked for it - just put it there.

[pipi_k]

5. Hahahaha!!!!

Bless your Nanny... I don't think I would have been able to stifle my laughter either. Oh, and that's what I am to my grandkids...."Nanny"...

Anyway, my mom had this huge old lilac bush next to the house. I mean it was really huge! It also had openings through it, like paths.

So we would bring our little kiddie chairs set outside, and set them up inside the lilac bush and pretend it was an airplane.

If not that, I would pretend it was a jungle (I loved the old "Jungle Jim" and "Tarzan" movies back then) and go on expeditions.

When it rained out, my sisters and I would play "Christmas". One of us would pretend to be sleeping, and the other two would wrap up various toys in newspaper and put them by the bed, whereupon the "sleeper" would wake up and unwrap the "presents".

One game my parents didn't find all that funny....the mashed potato balls fights. Mashed potatoes made one of my sisters gag, so she would hide them at dinnertime, then we would make balls out of them and bomb each other in the bedroom we all shared.

good times

[woodsprite]

6. My two friends and I always pretended we were

entertainers/disc jockeys, teachers, newspaper editors, beauty queens. We hadn't been close for ages, then we reconnected on FaceBook a year or two ago. Turned out that we all kinda followed suite to what we liked to play when we were kids. I'm a web developer for a school and a paid soloist at times, one friend has been a disc jockey for years, the other owns her own beauty parlor.

[LeftishBrit]

8. My friend and I used to pretend that we were witches

We had a five-foot ruler in my house and that was our broomstick. Also, we would dress up in towels - which obviously made us look like witches. We would go all around the house and garden, pretending to cast spells.

I also used to pretend to be a teacher, with whoever was around serving as a pupil. On a couple of occasions, my dad obligingly served as my pupil 'Peter' and I wrote a report card for him: 'SUMS: Peter is bad at sums (not true!). READING AND GEOGRAPHY: Peter is very good at both'; etc.

I also seem to remember pretending to be an astronaut going to the moon or Mars.

[Arugula Latte]

9. We played "Titanic" ... Lined up chairs, sat in them and then tipped over.

Also, we had a fence that I nailed "stirrups" to, tied on a rope for reins, and that was my horse. I was pretty desperate for a horse.

[RushIsRot]

10. I was a jet plane.

I'd fill both hands with dust, spread my arms like wings and run leaving a "contrail" in the air behind me.

[guitar man]

11. When I was little

I used to pretend I was a rock star..... now I'm 48 and can't figure out how to stop pretending

[LiberalEsto]

12. We had a big fallen evergreen tree

in the woods behind our house.
It was a great pirate ship.