Question by ĀŢĿĄŜ↔ĴŮŅĶĬĒ: When did your baby first start playing make believe?
My daughter, Avary, is 11 months old. She has always been very good at playing on her own. She does a lot of chatting with herself and finding new ways to entertain herself – like yesterday she flipped over one of her toys that had a concave area on the back of it. She put her little balls from the pop up toy on the concave surface and was having a great time watching them roll around on it. I thought that was pretty creative for her age. But then this morning, she and I were playing and I had spilled some water on a blanket. She saw the wet spot and started playing with it, then used her thumb and forefinger grasp to pretend to pick up some of the water and put it in my mouth. (We had been playing a game of “where it your mouth, where is your nose”, etc. so maybe that’s where she got the idea. But she kept doing it so I started doing the same to her. I would pretend to pick up some of the water from the water spot and put it in her mouth and she would make an exaggerated chewing motion like I had fed her something, then giggle. I thought it was a little early for her to be using her imagination like this already. At what age did your baby start playing make-believe and what was their first make believe game?
Yeah, Avary started doing the fake coughing and sneezing thing really young too. I never really thought of that as imaginary play, but I guess it is.
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Answer by Queen Boxxy
Mine believed it was loved from day 1, he was wrong
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My kids started at 7 months old. They would pretend to sneeze to get someone to say “bless you”. Then they would mimic the words “bless you”. They also started pretending to feed us at that age, and then they would go “mmmm??” and it was like they were asking if it was yummy. Another first thing that just my son did was point to the ceiling and if we didn’t look he would push our faces up to look at it and there would be nothing there, and then would start laughing at us because he tricked us into looking. At 8 months old they would put things in their stacking cups and pretend to drink them. They would also fill up small boxes with blocks and shake them and tip the box and watch them roll to the other side.