Can kids as young as 6 create provocations/ invitations to play?

Our 7 days of working with kids from ages 3-10 made us ask a lot of questions about what role we should be playing. Provocations are always set up by the grown ups for early years kids. 

So we set them up for the kids aged 3-10, partly because we needed to know how to make them engaging to this older age group but are these older kids (post early years) just as able to create provocations as we are? Better able? The mum in this article's 6 year old daughter sets up provocations for her siblings. Is she able to do that because she's watched her mum do it "a million times" or because she knows what she would find provocative? And what motivates the choices grownups make when setting up provocations - experience of watching what previous kids enjoyed or creating something that we know we'd enjoy? Is it the eternal child that directs us? And, if so, even in part, wouldn't kids do a good job of creating provocations for each other?!