TYPES OF PLAY Sensorimotor Play Utilizes the senses

TYPES OF PLAY

Sensorimotor Play • Utilizes the senses and motor skills ie. -playing in sand, mud or water or any textural media that aids in premath and prescience concepts.

Rough and Tumble Play • Looks like wrestling and fighting • Great release of energy • Social and physical development

Make Believe or Dramatic Can u imagine? -Make believe or imaginative play ie playing house, restaurant, office or bank -teaches real life situations, problem solving and strengthens social interactions and behaviors -able to express themselves -able to act out things they have seen or experienced

Active play • Playing and interacting with others and OBJECTS • Child must be actively involved • This is how the child learns • Puzzles, board games, manipulatives or actively looking at a book

PASSIVE PLAY • A child does not interact with anyone or anything • Watching televison or a video are examples • Limit this type of play • Used when child is tired, angry, or needs some alone time.

Social Patterns • • • Unoccupied Behavior Onlooker Behavior Solitary Play Infants Parallel Play 2 – 3 Years old Associative Play - 3 yrs. – school-age Cooperative Play – 4 yrs – school-age

Unoccupied • Child is not involved in any particular activity • He/she just observes what seems to be interesting at the time. • When not interested, will look around, walk around, play with fingers, hair, suck thumb etc.

Onlooker Behavior • Child watches other children play • Child may talk to other children who are playing but will not become actively involved. • Wants to be close enough to interact with other children

Solitary Play • Starts in infancy and continues • Child Plays along and has no interest in anyone else or what they are doing • Toys he/she is playing with are different from those other children are playing with. • Totally involved in a personal activity

Parallel Play • Child plays beside or next to other children • No actual interaction, but the toys are similar • Not playing with the children • Common in 2 – 3 year olds

Associative Play • Child is playing WITH other children • Children share toys and interact with each other. • No specific organization of activities • Each child does what he/she wishes but is part of a large group • Starts at 3 years – school-age

Cooperative Play • This type of play involves organization • Child is part of a group that has a specific purpose such as making an art project or playing a game together. • Leaders and followers emerge • Starts at age 4 and continues through school-age

How does play help a child grow? • • • Physically? Emotionally? Intellectually? Socially? Morally? Discuss with a partner near you

How can adults guide children’s play? • Allow them to be creative • Allow them to make up their own rules • Intervene only when asked or you see a safety issue arise • Interact by praising and encouraging