1. Child’s Play

2. Play Play is an important and necessary part of development.
Play influences:
Physical, Intellectual, Social and Emotional development.

3. Physical Development Helps to develop fine movements skills.
E.g. Children need to build upper body strength by hanging or swinging

4. Intellectual Development
Both verbal and visual stimulation is provided by play.
Play encourages mental awareness

5. Social and Emotional Development
Play encourages ‘friends’ – social relationships between children.
This then forms the basis of socialization into adult society.

6. 1) Playing alone – unaware of other children nearby.
STAGES of Play
1) Playing alone – unaware of other children nearby.

7. They will defend their own toys
Parallel Play
The child is playing alongside others – but still concentrating on themselves.
They will defend their own toys

8. Watching as others play.
Looking – On Play
Watching as others play.

9. Joining in Play
Playing with others and sharing the same activity.

10. Belonging to a group and doing the same task
Cooperative Play
Belonging to a group and doing the same task

11. Task
In 2’s and 3’s look at the scenarios and decide what STAGE of play does it describe.
You have 10 Mins

12. Task Discovery Physical Creative Imaginative Manipulative Social
We have just looked at the stages of play now we will look at types of play:
Discovery
Physical
Creative
Imaginative
Manipulative
Social
IN PAIRS or 3’s you are going to explain to the class on type of play
The info will be given to you.