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Abbie Kolvites
What is play?
Verb
engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a
serious or practical purpose or take part in (a sport).

Noun
activity engaged in for enjoyment and recreation, especially by
children or the conducting of an athletic match or contest.
Why Should Children Play?

They get to have the chance for freedom of choice


Provides diversion
Helps the children feel secure
Allows relaxation
Help with homesickness or separation anxiety
Children can express their feelings and emotions
It is an outlet for creativity
Allows the children to fresh air
The Benefits of play:

Cognitive
Social Emotional:
:

Gain ability to take on While gain verbalization


the perspective of others skills
Higher language
Has better control of comprehension
impulsive actions Better ability to take on
The children will be more the perspective of another
imaginativeness The children while have a
higher intellectual
Will have a longer
competence
attention spans
Better problem solving
strategies
Expressive Play

Certain forms of play give children opportunities to express


feelings by engaging with materials. Materials used in
expressive play include tempera paints, fingerpaints,
watercolors, crayons, colored pencils and markers, and drawing
paper; clay, water, and sponges; beanbags, pounding benches,
punching bags, and rhythm instruments; and shaving cream,
pudding, and gelatin.
Physical play

Gross motor skills are larger


movements your baby
makes with his arms, legs,
feet, or his entire body. So
crawling, running, and
jumping are gross motor
skills.

Fine motor skill (or dexterity) is


the coordination of small muscle
movementsusually involving the
synchronization of hands and
fingerswith the eyes.
Constructive play

Experimenting with materials, they can


build towers with blocks, construct
objects with miscellaneous loose parts,
play in the sand, and draw sidewalk
murals with chalk.
Fantasy play

Imagination
or fantasy,
especially as
exercised in a
capricious
manner of
play. Acting
out the
different
behaviors
they see.
Parallel Play

Parallel play is a form of


play in which childrenplay
adjacent to each other,
but do not try to influence
one another's behavior.
Children usually play alone
during parallel play but are
interested in what other
children are doing.
Cooperative play

Cooperative play is concerned with solving a problem by working


together to achieve a common goal. In cooperative play, everybody
wins. Play is how young children learn. Through play, children develop
the skills they need to expand their physical, emotional, social, and
cognitive abilities.
Associative play

The third stage of play is associative play. When children enter this stage,
they are moving away from playing alone to playing in a group. In
associative play, children are engaged in separate activities but are
interacting by exchanging toys and talking about the other child's
activity.
Citations:

Bongiorno, L. (n.d.). 10 Things Every Parent Should Know about Play. Retrieved March 29,
2016, from
http://families.naeyc.org/learning-and-development/child-development/10-things-every-par
ent-should-know-about-play
Deborah J. Leong PhD, Elena Bodrova PhD. (n.d.). Why Children Need Play | Scholastic.com.
Retrieved March 13, 2016, from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/why-children-
need-play-0
Fox, J. E., Ph.D. (n.d.). Earlychildhood NEWS - Article Reading Center. Retrieved March 13,
2016, from
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=240
Snow, K., Ph.D. (n.d.). Research News You Can Use: Debunking the Play vs. Learning
Dichotomy | National Association for the Education of Young Children | NAEYC. Retrieved
March 13, 2016, from
http://www.naeyc.org/content/research-news-you-can-use-play-vs-learning

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