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Community Child 
Care Connection, Inc.
1004 North Milton Avenue
Springfield, IL 62702-4430

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Local:  (217) 525-2805
Toll Free:  1-800-676-2805
Fax:  (217) 525-5859
Email: info@cccconnect.org

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Children Play... Children Learn

It is said that “a child’s work is his play.” Play develops imagination and creativity. Play also gives children practice in the social skills they need in our world. It offers opportunities to teach children when to give or take, when to share, how to get along with others, how to listen, to plan, and to check on how their ideas are working out.

Through good play, children learn to live with themselves and with others and to develop a better sense of how our world operates. Play also offers children the opportunity to experience success and the chance to work through uncomfortable feelings in a secure and supportive way.

We all want our children to face problems, to think them through, and to learn how to solve them. Increasingly our lives demand this ability and skill. Play gives children experiences in creating and rearranging possibilities to reach a solution. Play continually confronts children with real situations and problems and provides them the means for working through them. Play also promotes the total development of the child and enhances self-esteem as children succeed in play.

A child playing in the following ways is forming a solid foundation for a life of learning:

When I dress-up and pretend play with household items, I am:

  • practicing to understand and master adult roles
  • practicing math and language skills
  • organizing and using ideas
  • symbolically using materials in meaningful ways

When I am listening to or looking at books with others, I am:

  • making friends with books
  • learning that printed words have meaning
  • learning about other people and places
  • often interacting with an important adult to develop verbal and listening skills

When I am building with blocks, I am:

  • using my imagination and creativity
  • learning about height, width, depth, and length
  • experiencing patterns, symmetry, and balance
  • gaining feelings of competence
  • learning to cooperate, share, plan, negotiate 

When I notice and play with things in nature, I am:

  • investigating the world around me
  • developing my curiosity
  • growing in my sensory awareness
  • appreciating beauty and order in nature

When I am playing with playdough and modeling clay, I am:

  • being creative and imaginative
  • strengthening and developing my small muscles
  • developing my sensory awareness

When I am doing woodworking activities, I am:

  • creating in my own way, two and three-dimensional objects with various materials
  • gaining skill in hammering, using screws, and other tools
  • developing my eye-hand coordination
  • feeling good about being allowed to do an “adult activity”
  • learning about safety for my friends and myself
  • problem solving

When I am playing with paints and watercolors, I am:

  • being creative and imaginative
  • experimenting with colors, lines, form, spatial relationships, and methods of applying paint
  • expressing my feelings and moods

Source: www.parentstages.com

 

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