If we want our kids to have happy, productive, moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less. ~Peter Gray, professor in psychology
Thank you all for joining in my fun with this caption game and leaving your ideas for a caption for Wednesday’s photo. It’s fun to do a little playing and using our imaginations even after we can’t really call ourselves kids anymore. Well, we can still hold a little of our kid person in our hearts.
Readers sometimes share stories with me and some of the ones that are the most fun are about things they did when they were kids – games they played with their brothers and sisters and all the good memories they have of those childhood days.
But even after we add on a few years, we can still have fun and play some games. I have a granddaughter who is always ready to play a game of cards. We also keep a badminton net up in our front yard. It’s a fun yard decoration and the grandkids and the kids love seeing if they can keep the birdie flying back and forth. I do too. We had a net up in our front yard when I was a kid. That was so much fun on a summer afternoon.
I don’t think you ever get too old to have fun and that’s why I like having a game of some kind to go along with my book giveaways here on my blog. I hope you all enjoy “playing” along with me.
The most popular suggested caption to Wednesday’s picture was all about blackberry pie. A few also mentioned blackberry jam. I just made some yesterday and I’ve been enjoying taste testing it on my breakfast toast and in a PB & J sandwich or two. Who knows? I might have made jam out of that bucket of berries in the photo. My granddaughter holding the bucket isn’t crazy about pie, but she does like a jam and peanut butter sandwich. Carrie asked which would be better the berries in a cobbler or off the bush. I think my granddaughter would choose fresh off the bush. I have some tame blackberries out by the garden and the grandkids can pick them clean with no need for a bucket. They just eat them. 🙂
You all had great captions. A couple I really liked were bn100’s having her ask if she got 1st prize in the berry picking contest and Bonnie’s “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Parthena’s “Sweets for the sweet” was cute too. Janice and Karen noticed that the bucket was a trick or treat bucket and used that in their comments. Loved them all.
Now it’s time for a new picture and new captions. This is another grandkid picture. I have plenty of those to pick from. If you leave your idea for a caption on this post, you’ll get an entry (another entry if you left a caption on the first picture) in my giveaway to be one of the winners of a choice of one of my books and a grab bag book.
So what caption do you think goes best with the picture up top?
Thanks for playing along with me in my caption game.
When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero. ~Fred Rogers, TV host and producer
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Me and My Shadow
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Nice caption, Dana. I like it.
“98 . . .99 . . .100! Ready or not, here we come to find the thimble (or other small object) that Grandma has hidden!”
When my sister and I spent time with our aunt, one of the games we loved to play was “hide the thimble” in Aunt Dora’s apartment. She’d give us hints (e.g., “You’re getting hot!” or “You’re freezing cold!”) as to whether we were close to the hidden object or far away from it.
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We used to do that too, Roberta. My sisters and I did when we were kids and then I’ve played the getting hot or freezing cold game of trying to find something. I don’t know that we ever had a specific item like your thimble, but we did hide things and then have fun finding them.
If we can’t see Grandma, she can’t see us!
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Fun caption, Karen. And that is how kids are ready to play hide and seek when they are little. That’s why peek-a-boo with babies makes them giggle.
If we pretend we are asleep we won’t have to help washing dishes.
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Of course, at this age they loved washing dishes and getting water everywhere, Carol. LOL. But I love the caption.
Ready or not, I’ll find you!
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When I was a kid, Ola, we used to play hide and seek after it got dark. I was the youngest a lot of the times and I remember being scared half the time that I would find them or that I wouldn’t or that they wouldn’t find me or would. LOL.
“No cheating”. I’m not cheating but I’m gonna win!”
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Cute, Pamela. I’m thinking a lot of kids have cheated with a peek or two while playing hide and seek games.
This was a hard one. Everything I could think of was already used, or something very close. But it is a lot of fun to see all the comments!!
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No penalty for like answers, Ann. 🙂 But glad you enjoyed reading the comments and the other caption ideas.