Do you have a home corner? Does it sound a little old fashioned? A play kitchen, some pretend food and a couple of baskets? At school and in the nursery, it’s always one of the most popular areas of the classroom for one simple reason: children are driven to copy adults and what adults do. […]
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As children approach school age they begin to participate in cooperative play. This is the final stage of the six stages of play and the most sophisticated. It’s the kind of play you get when children play together, assigning roles and agreeing the rules of the game, however arbitrary they may be. You will find
Sometimes I think the 100 Toys approach to play is a bit like the Paleo Diet. I find myself wondering how children would have played before there were any toys. The impulse to explore would still have been there. Toddlers would have enjoyed schema play. Babies would still have dropped their food on the floor.
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