In this video,the adult (George) uses a completely nonverbal strategy to enter the children’s play: offering some actions that are new to the children as provocations. Notice how he works to extend one child’s exploration by inventing an interesting action with the spoon and glass. The action of the glass spinning freely on the end of the spoon captures Shayna’s interest, and she reaches toward George. Hoping that Shayna will create the action by building her own spoon and glass combination, George hands her a glass and resumes demonstrating the spinning motion. Shayna closely observes the spinning motion George demonstrates while placing the glass inside her pot. George speculates that Shayna may believe the action resides in the particular objects he is holding, so he hands Shayna his spoon and glass combination. The strategies Shayna utilizes to imitate George provide a clear example of “imitation” as an active process that involves understanding the purpose of a set of actions and then translating that purpose into a set of unique actions that are not identical to what is observed. Shayna twists the glass resting on the tip of the spoon handle to make it turn instead of rotating the spoon handle inside the glass.