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

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
o Sensorimotor
o Fitness
Skills
and Health
•Outdoor
Play Connects Children to Nature and Their
Environment
o Nature
Feels Good and Inspires
o Children
with Disabilities
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Purposes of Play
•Play
Fosters Intellectual Development
o Symbolic
Thought
o Acquisition
o Language
•Play
of Information and Skills
Development
Enhances Social Development
o Pretend
o Games
Play: Dramatic and Sociodramatic
with Rules
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Purposes of Play
•
Play Contains Rich Emotional Values
o Expression
o Relieves
of Feelings
Pressure
o Mastery
•
Play Develops the Creative Aspect of a Child's
Personality
o Imagination
o Divergent
•
Thinking
Play is Deeply Satisfying to Children
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Developmental Stages of Play
• Piaget's Stages of Play
o Functional
Play
o Constructive
o Dramatic
o Games
Play
Play
with Rules
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Developmental Stages of Play
•
Parten's Stages of Play
o Solitary
o Parallel
Play
Play
o Associative
Play
o Cooperative
Play
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Developmental Stages of Play
•
Educational Implications
o Organized,
competitive games are developmentally
inappropriate for preschool-aged children
o Be
prepared for chaotic nature of children’s play
o Understand
learning
how play can enhance academic
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Factors Likely to Facilitate Creative Play
•Allow Children's Ideas to Develop/Avoid
Dominating Play
o Teacher-Directed
o Child-Initiated
o Teacher
Play
Play with Teacher Support
Intervention in Play
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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
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Some Practical Ways to Stimulate and
Extend Play
• Cast Yourself as Child's Assistant in Play
o Move
with the Child's Play
o Put
Yourself in the Child's Position
o Put
Children in Command of Play
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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
o Get
Equipment That Encourages Imagination
o Wide
Variety of Basic Kinds of Equipment
o Change
Equipment Frequently
o Rearrange
o Store
and Recombine Equipment Frequently
Equipment in Convenient Places
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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
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Specific Activities to Encourage
Creativity in Play
•Creative Dramatic Play – “Just Pretending”
•Block Play
o Supply
a Variety of Blocks
o Emergent
Perceptual-Motor Skills
o Emotionally
Satisfying Block Play
o Visual-Spatial
o Intellectual
o Blocks
Relationships
Development
Foster Creativity
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Specific Activities to Encourage
Creativity in Play
• Water Play
o One of the freest, finest play opportunities we can offer
children
o Should be offered several times a week
•
Mud and Sand
o
•
Among most popular play activities, offering messy,
unstructured, tactile, sensual experiences
Computer and Digital Screen Play
o
Make sure does not interfere with robust, physical play
o
Ensure screen play is enriching and developmentally
appropriate
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