Finally, our findings show that children generalize information from pretense without being prompted to think about kinds. In previous studies suggesting that children acquire general knowledge from pretend play, children were asked questions that explicitly prompted them to think about kinds ; similar questions were also asked in previous studies suggesting that children learn general knowledge from storybooks. These kind-based questions may have invited children to generalize the information and to see it as relating to kinds. By asking open-ended questions, we were able to assess whether or not children generalized without prompting them to think about kinds. The finding that children gave generic answers in response to the pretense scenarios shows that they see information from pretense as relevant to kinds without being prompted to make this connection. As such, the findings suggest that pretend play could serve as a robust source of general knowledge for young children.However, it should be acknowledged that the very act of questioning children may have prompted them to consider the scope of the information in pretense when they would not have otherwise, potentially increasing the likelihood of them treating pretense as a source of general information. As such, we cannot claim that our findings show that children’s generalizing from pretense was completely spontaneous. Perhaps future research could investigate whether children rely on pretense as a source of general knowledge using tasks where children are not questioned in any way or at least in tasks where they are questioned after a considerable delay.