Truth vs fibs for a four year old

[Rosehip]

How do you teach this? My DD is, well, imaginative. I think a lot of it is no big deal, just 4 year old confusion and imagination.

But some things are starting to be a bit of an issue. Her teacher (she's in preschool) told me that three times lately, she's said, when asked, that she flushed and washed her hands after using the bathroom when she hadn't. She also told her music teacher it was her birthday when it wasn't, and the whole class snag her Hapy Birthday. Today she told me she went swimming in the ocean (she had her pool swimming lesson). I've tried to explain what's true/what really happens vs. make believe.

Any tips here? How do you teach this?

[~PurityLake~]

Subbing cause my 3.5 year old tells fibs sometimes. The few times it's happened, and I knew she was fibbing, I said something to the effect of 'I think .... this... is what really happened.' She said 'uh uh' and I dropped it cause I didn't know how to deal with it and the fib wasn't about anything that mattered.