Pretend play is extremely important for kids to engage in, and you can help facilitate your child's imagination by giving them lots of imaginative toys to play with. Pretend play builds social/emotional skills, language skills, thinking skills, and is the way that children make sense of real life situations around them. Young children learn best by imagining and doing. We've put together a list … [Read more...]
The World of Imagination Play
Young children learn by imagining and acting. They may pretend to be Mommy talking on her cell phone, they make their Lego figures visit the land of dinosaurs, or they may even crawl around the house on all fours pretending to be a puppy. These are just a few of the millions of ways that children use role play to act out experiences they may have had, or they may have interest in. The benefits … [Read more...]