1. Child’s Play
Play is a Child’s Work

2. Play offers opportunities
Children learn what is soft and hard, cold and warm, scratchy or smooth as they touch everything within reach
Children learn what is heavy and light and they lift and throw things in their world
Children learn what is sour and sweet and they put everything in their mouths to explore new objects

3. Play creates meaning
Learning learn what does and does NOT work and they push, pull, fit, stack and destroy
Children learn how to connect events, feelings, thoughts by symbolizing their experiences and acting out their feelings

4. Types of Non Social Play
SOLITARY play
Children play without regard for what other children are doing around them
Child does not approach others
Helps the child to be a thinker and concentrate on a task

5. Types of Non Social Play
ONLOOKER play
When children observe other’s at play
Learn social skills and listen to vocabulary
2 years old

6. Types of Social Play Children play alongside others but not with them
PARALLEL play
Children play alongside others but not with them
Children may play with similar toys but use toys in their own way.

7. Types of Social Play ASSOCIATIVE Play
Where children interact and share toys but do not have a shared goal or engage in joint efforts
May talk about what they are doing, share toys, and ask questions
Enhances curiosity, communication skills and language development

8. Types of Social Play COOPERATIVE Play
Where children interact with a shared goal
Follow instructions of other children
Observe division of tasks
Develop sociability

9. Passive Play
The child is not actively engaged in the act of play but rather being passively entertained by or minimally interacting with an electronic device.
Example: TV
Video
Computer games

10. Active Play The child interacts with objects, movement and others
Examples:
Building with blocks
Game like tag
Coloring
Sports
Tag

11. Sensory Motor Play
The child is engaged in play with objects of a textural medium
Learning through the senses
Sand
Finger paint
Play dough
Water play
Cooking

12. Exploratory Play
Children are able to actively explore materials and environments
Enhances learning through experimentation
Examples:
Mixing paint to make new colors
Relationships between shapes
Numbers and patterns
Inventing new things

13. Dramatic Play
Child uses objects, actions, and language to create imaginary roles and situations
Makes a connection between what is real and the pretend world
Provides and emotional outlet for them
Examples
Playing house
Pretending to be an animal
Re-enact a story
Puppets

14. Skill Mastery Develop sense of accomplishment
Do something over and over until they have mastered it
They feel good about their new skill
Kids love REPITION so they like to do things that they are good at over and over and over…..
Example:
Riding a bike
Skating
Puzzles

15. Constructive Play
Child uses objects or materials to create a representation of something
Symbolic thinking and pretend
Hand on experience
Good emotional outlet
Example:
Building a fort
Sand castles
Create things with paper and glue
Clay, play dough

16. Benefits of Play Intellectual Development
Child’s thinking becomes more orderly and logical
Over time, play becomes more realistic and rule oriented
Social/Emotional Development
Peer group provides support
Sense of belonging
Self Concept and Self Development
Develop pride and confidence in skills and abilities