Play
Play
Play is the basis for all a child's development.
Play can take place alone or in interaction with other people.
-Children need more than just the same puzzle or rules game or push-button toy.
- sensory, exploratory - often alone and mostly non-verbal
- Pattern, rhythm&repeat,
- symbolic
- according to FEDCs
Playing for yourself (solitary play)
One of the earliest ways to play is for the young child to begin to be interested in what is going on around them and how they can reach, feel, sense or move something in order to have new experiences, learn about their own body, explore things in their environment and try out and develop their own, mostly unconscious, ideas. This exploratory play on its own begins at 2-3 months of age and forms the basis for the important ability to occupy oneself and to have one's own interests. It takes place undisturbed, alone and non-verbally, or in the silent, observing presence of a trusted person. 'Playing alone in the presence of the (m)other', as the child therapist D. Winnicott called it, enables the child to develop his inner relational world and sense of self. In such situations it is important that the adult holds back and participates emotionally with interest, quietly and benevolently, without wanting to prompt the child to interact or to give, show or teach him something or to draw his reactions to himself.
Examples
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Tips and activities
Sensory game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
Water feature - webinar
- f
Exploratory game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
Make pattern
Problem Solving
Boxes & Containers
- f
Loose parts
- fnd
High play value
- f
Parallel game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
Interactive game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
Movement games
- takes place mostly non-verbally, in order to gain new experience.
Symbolic game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
Cooperative game
- with others to communicate and exchange with each other
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"brain has become
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