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Learning benefits of imaginative play –

• It provides opportunities for children to identify with the adult world.  Practise and role play their understanding and interpretation.
• Develop social skills: practising negotiation skills, turn taking and sharing. Provides opportunities for working out problems and experimenting with solutions.
• Emotional development: Understanding and expressing their feelings through the re-enactment of certain experiences.  Taking on roles that encourage discipline and empathy.
• Encourages imagination: Children can be anyone and do anything in the pretend world.
• Develop language skills: practising listening, looking and talking.  Being spoken to and talking with other people, also developing an understanding of what is being communicated through body language such as smiles and nodding.
• I also believe that imaginative play is a great way for children to escape, relax and unwind from their busy lives.

Fine motor skills are also readily developed through play. Coloring, cutting with child-sized scissors and playing with toys such as peg boards or dressing dolls are just a few ways that children develop small muscle coordination and dexterity. As skills increase, children naturally increase the difficulty of their play, constantly stretching their limits.

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                                          Playing with cars

Playing with Rice

Blocks

Playmobil

                          Musical instruments