In 1932 Walter Benjamin wrote and read on air the comic radio play “Much Ado About Kasperl”. In March 2011 a Berlin theatre put the piece on stage and invited me to give an interactive lecture about the play to an audience of children aged between 9 and 11. I tried to actively involve the young audience referring to some Benjaminian aspects of the Pixar movie “Toy Story” and inviting them to think about how much we learn by playing games (Roger Caillois’ classification of games provided a useful background for my purposes). Special attention has been devoted to the decisive role played by the “mimetic faculty” in this context.