What is play?
- Play is self-motivated and freely chosen
- Play is process-oriented
- Play promotes self-esteem
- Play is different from reality
- Play doesn't have formal rules
- Play requires active involvement of each player
- about their world
- social skills
- cultural expectations
- role playing
- express and accept feelings and ideas appropriately
- problem-solving and planning
- practicing independence
- taking initiative
- increases understanding of the world
- strengthens self-esteem
- develop meaningful relationships
- verbal skills
- boundaries
- cognitive abilities developed
- experiment with weight, size, shape, colour, height, distance, number, volume
- trial and error
- exploration and experimentation
- recognize patterns, classify or categorize items
- flexible thinking
- expressing thought, experience or ideas with art
- imitating and pretending
- Language development
- fine and gross motor skills
- cause and effect
- sensory awareness
- sharing, cooperation