Types of Play

Games with Rules

• Children play according to the rules they have made up themselves.
• Children who watch older children play.
• Children explore the possibilities of materials or objects.
• Children play without regard for what other children around them are doing.

Solitary Play

• Children play according to the rules they have made up themselves.
• Children who watch older children play
• Children explore the possibilities of materials or objects.
• Children play without regard for what other children around them are doing.

Onlooker Play

• Children play without regard for what other children around them are doing.
• Children who watch older children play.
• Children play according to the rules they have made up themselves.
• Children explore the possibilities of materials or objects.

Parallel Play

• Two children doing two different things side by side
• Making a decision
• All Play

Dramatic Play

• Children doing two different things side by side
• Dress up; Doctor; Police Officer, etc
• All Play

Constructive Play

• Can happen; doctor, house
• 
  Solitaire, playing alone
• 
  All play
• Legos, play-doh, collage

Play is best described as

• as being intrinsically motivated.
• as process over product.
• as freedom from rules.
• all of these

If a child is playing alone, this is defined as

• unoccupied
• onlooker
• solitary 
• parallel

When children play together in an organized way and with a shared purpose, they are displaying which stage of play?

• associative
• parallel
• cooperative
• none of these

Which is true of play for children?

• play is a way to keep children from misbehaving
  
• play teaches important skills
• play only happens after two years
  
• children in third world countries don't playNext