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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Thanks for all the great captions. I expected the hide and seek ones because that was my first thought too. I love the way some of you have the kids counting. Lisa and Janice get to 100 fast and I’ve heard kids count like that in Hide and Seek. Robin only speeded up to ten. Sometimes you have to hide fast. That “ready or not, here I come” is always the most fun to say when you’re “it.”
Connie, I liked the no peeking.
Paula, you did notice what my little grandson was holding. It’s actually a magnifying glass, but I like your idea of a bubble wand.
Kim, Jolynn, Lucy, and Birdie – You must know some kids like my grandkids. Getting them to nap isn’t all that easy. They never seemed to be as sleepy as me!!
Terri, that’s a cute caption. Never heard that kids’ song, but it works for this picture.
Deborah, my grandson definitely needed a little more room.
Una, kids do like to be outside when they are that age. Before electronics start enticing them away from fun games like Hide and Seek.
Joy, something sneaking might fit. Especially the little boy. 🙂
Bn100, I don’t think it’s going to be hard for the seeker to find him, if she’s doing the counting and ready or not part. Of course, I have played Hide and seek with kids and pretended not to see them when they are in plain sight. That always made them laugh. Of course, I had to pretend to not hear them too. LOL
Lee, I guess if they don’t see whoever is looking for them, they might think they’re well hidden. 🙂
Emily, they are looking a little tuckered out.
Marji, I liked the idea that the boy is getting a lesson in how to play hide and seek. Funny.
Hurry! Quick! Here comes Mom, let’s pretend we’re taking our nap, so we’ll get to go to the pool later!
Move over! I’m falling off the couch and if we don’t take a nap we won’t go to Grandma and Grandpa’s house.
If we act like we don’t see them maybe we can stay outside.
1…2…3…4…10
Ready or not, here I come!
Little brother learning how to be a ‘seeker’ ( in the game of hide & seek).
“And the little one said, move over, I’m squished.”
It comes from a children song.
No Grandma, we’re not leaving!
We are supposed to be taking a nap.
Hide and seek or something sneaky?
(They look like they are up to something!)
Nana said take a nap. Let’s pretend till she goes inside and then hide.
1 2 3 4…..100 Ready or Not. Here we come!
“When your little brother doesn’t understand the “hide” part of hide and seek”
We play a lot of games in our house. They make good Christmas gifts and give us family time. We have so many though, that it is sometimes hard to decide which one to play! My daughter received a game years ago from my sister that has photo cards that you match with your word cards to try to be the card picked for the best one to go with the picture on the card. Some of them are pretty funny. I forget the name of the game though. 🙂
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Like your caption, Hope. I thought of that too, that the little boy was hiding too close to the counter. LOL.
My grandkids have that game. I can’t think of the name of it either, but they think it’s fun. I also played it with my sisters-in-law. We did do some laughing, for sure.
After we play hide and seek, let’s blow bubbles with this giant wand I’ve got!
Is this a good hide and seek spot?
“We’re running out of numbers we know to count; have you finished hiding yet?
Shhhhh.. keep your head down. She’s getting close.
“Grandma, we’ve had so much fun today, but we’re all tuckered out! Can we come over and do it all again tomorrow?! Please?! 💜Psalm 98💜
We’ll Count-You Hide
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Look at the Berries I Picked!
We are napping, Mom.
1,2,3…99,100…ready or not,here we come!
At first, I thought they’re taking a nap but then something about how they have their heads down reminded me of how we would put our heads down, eyes closed, to count while someone would go hide when playing Hide & Seek. I can just hear someone saying…”No peeking!”