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CHAPTER 3: Fostering Creativity in Play

CHAPTER 3: Fostering Creativity in Play. The Whole Child: Developmental Education for the Early Years Tenth Edition Patricia Weissman Joanne Hendrick. Purposes of Play. Play Fosters Physical Development Sensorimotor Skills Fitness and Health

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CHAPTER 3: Fostering Creativity in Play

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  1. CHAPTER 3:Fostering Creativity in Play The Whole Child: Developmental Education for the Early Years Tenth Edition Patricia Weissman Joanne Hendrick

  2. Purposes of Play • Play Fosters Physical Development • Sensorimotor Skills • Fitness and Health • Outdoor Play Connects Children to Nature and Their Environment • Nature Feels Good and Inspires • Children with Disabilities

  3. Purposes of Play • Play Fosters Intellectual Development • Symbolic Thought • Acquisition of Information and Skills • Language Development • Play Enhances Social Development • Pretend Play: Dramatic and Sociodramatic • Games with Rules

  4. Purposes of Play • Play Contains Rich Emotional Values • Expression of Feelings • Relieves Pressure • Mastery • Play Develops the Creative Aspect of a Child's Personality • Imagination • Divergent Thinking • Play is Deeply Satisfying to Children

  5. Developmental Stages of Play • Piaget's Stages of Play • Functional Play • Constructive Play • Dramatic Play • Games with Rules

  6. Developmental Stages of Play • Parten's Stages of Play • Solitary Play • Parallel Play • Associative Play • Cooperative Play

  7. Developmental Stages of Play • Educational Implications • Organized, competitive games are developmentally inappropriate for preschool-aged children • Be prepared for chaotic nature of children’s play • Understand how play can enhance academic learning

  8. Factors Likely to Facilitate Creative Play • Allow Children's Ideas to Develop/Avoid Dominating Play • Teacher-Directed Play • Child-Initiated Play with Teacher Support • Teacher Intervention in Play

  9. Some Practical Ways to Stimulate and Extend Play • Ask Questions • Make Suggestions • Provide Plenty of Time for Play • Use Language to Enrich Play • Make a Point to Include Children with Disabilities

  10. Some Practical Ways to Stimulate and Extend Play • Cast Yourself as Child's Assistant in Play • Move with the Child's Play • Put Yourself in the Child's Position • Put Children in Command of Play

  11. Some Practical Ways to Stimulate and Extend Play • Actual Life Experience is Fundamental to Creative Play • Offer Many Opportunities for Outdoor Play • Equipment is Important to Facilitate Play • Get Equipment That Encourages Imagination • Wide Variety of Basic Kinds of Equipment • Change Equipment Frequently • Rearrange and Recombine Equipment Frequently • Store Equipment in Convenient Places

  12. Some Practical Ways to Stimulate and Extend Play Keep Play Areas Safe and Attractive A Final Thought Children need plenty of freedom, time, and materials for their imaginative play

  13. Specific Activities to Encourage Creativity in Play • Creative Dramatic Play – “Just Pretending” • Block Play • Supply a Variety of Blocks • Emergent Perceptual-Motor Skills • Emotionally Satisfying Block Play • Visual-Spatial Relationships • Intellectual Development • Blocks Foster Creativity

  14. Specific Activities to Encourage Creativity in Play • Water Play • One of the freest, finest play opportunities we can offer children • Should be offered several times a week • Mud and Sand • Among most popular play activities, offering messy, unstructured, tactile, sensual experiences • Computer and Digital Screen Play • Make sure does not interfere with robust, physical play • Ensure screen play is enriching and developmentally appropriate

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