Circus Animals

Quite often after dinner our boys will ask Hubby to turn on some music for dancing and everyone will have a great time getting worn out for the night. One particular night in the not-too-distant past they instead asked for circus music. It was so much fun! (Maybe it was because I was told that I was the audience and could only sit and watch everything!)

Hubby started the music then Cutie Pie and Sweet Pea immediately began to pretend they were different animals they think are at a circus. Now, we’ve never been to the circus, don’t really talk very often about animals that would be seen at the circus, haven’t talked about going to the circus, and as far as we remember haven’t heard ‘circus’ music lately, so we can’t quite figure out where this idea came from…

They pretended to be snakes, penguins, lions, elephants, kangaroos, monkeys and gorillas! Of course, this was a very hard thing to get a picture of, believe me, we tried! Their actions for some animals were so good that if we had been playing charades we could have guessed it correctly on the first try!

I love spontaneous pretend play, especially when every bit of it stems from a child’s imagination with no prompting at all from an adult! Come along and play at Childhood 101 today!