{"id":57,"date":"2017-10-06T13:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildren.life\/?p=57"},"modified":"2022-01-15T17:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T17:29:20","slug":"4-types-of-childrens-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildren.life\/4-types-of-childrens-play\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Types of\u00a0Children’s Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A child plays and the development is interdependent. A play promotes the kids’ development and the kids’ development intensifies the play quality. Because of that, if we want to promote the development of a child, we should understand children’s play. But, understanding children’s play isn’t so simple. If we want to understand children’s play, we must be familiar with the children’s motivation, needs, abilities,… Also, we should know the utilities of children’s play, features of children’s play according to their age, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyhow, for better understanding children’s play, knowing types of children’s play is also very important. In pedagogical literature, 4 types of children’s play are the most common. Here are examples and explanations of each type of play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Functional play involves children’s performing certain functions of their body, toys, or things that they mastered. This type of play is the first play in children’s lives and the only play activity in babies<\/a><\/span>. For example, babies play functional play putting their foot fingers in their mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most common functional plays are motoric activities. Examples of functional plays also can be: jumping on one foot, walking backward, turning on and off the TV, playing voices, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n