Tuesday 8 May 2007

Imaginative Play

Work went OK yesterday and the system is up and running well.

Got back home to find Frodo and Samwise charging around the house brandishing guns fashioned from lego bricks and waving a small battery powered torch/radio. "We're Superhero Explorers" said Samwise.

The game changed to "Monsters on the ceiling" - inspired by Saturday night's Dr Who episode, and then finally "Pirates looking for treasure".

I pointed out to Pirate Samwise that he didn't have a treasure map. He went off to find a Pirate Activity Colouring book, which Pirate Frodo coloured in to make the map.

Pirate Frodo's bed became the pirate ship. I had to board it, sink it and capture Pirate Samwise in order to get them to bed.

3 comments:

impwork said...

Good job you suggested they needed a treasure map and didn't suggest they were short of a few cannon. A bit of grape would have made your boarding action a lot more difficult and then how would you have gotten them to bed?

cha0tic said...

You could've used Ninja skills to board the ship (See this site for an idea: http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-make-ninja-mask-out-of-t-shirt.html)

darkdwarf said...

Samwise often employs grape shot impworks - but usually from the dining table rather than the bed.

Cheers lucid. The Ninja mask from a T-shirt looks like something that I could use. The hobbits don't need to do this as they already have their own Ninja outfit in their dressing up box, complete with a set of nunchackas. Mind you they're the noisiest couple of Ninja's that I've ever come across.