Types of Play 1
This type of play is usually seen in the block center but it maybe seen in any area. It is the type of play where children are building.
What is constructive play?
You will often see the following toys with this type of play-dress up clothes, purses, kitchen, community helper clothes, play money, play phones and cultural clothing
What is dramatic play or Sociodramatic play?
( pretend, make-believe are also acceptable)
Parten's play type where children play beside themselves.
What is solitary play?
This type of play is used in the medical environment.
What is medical play?
This type of play is a form of dramatic play but includes very small replicas of things in the world. Children can play with small toys, animals, cars, people.
What is small world play?
This type of play is viewed by many as big body play where children build their gross motor skills. They play maybe viewed as assertive and forceful but it is not fighting.
What is rough and tumble play?
Parten's play type where children play next to each other but do not play together and share toys
What is parallel play?
This type of play also for the child to use their imagination. Toys that maybe used in this type of play include playdough, blocks, art materials.
What is creative play?
According to research, rough and and tumble play decreases when a child enters kindergarten: True or false.
False. This type of play increases due to children learning more about moving their bodies and the decrease in physical activity when children enter elementary schools.
Parten's play type where children play and share toys but do not have a schema or a common theme
What is associative play?
This type of play as known as sensorimotor play the children to explore the environment and learn about the world. Through trial and error, the child learns about the world and the environment.
This child development theorist strongly believed in children's play supporting social development and working through anxiety. Her father was known for his development theory.
Who is Anna Freud?
This theorist believed that play helped children express their emotions and gain control of their social emotional environment. Through play, children are able to work through and solve some emotional issues.
Who is Erik Erikson?
True or false: Children in constructive play have a schema. They need to play out their schemas in their play as a part of their developmental growth.
True
Who is Jean Piaget?