play types patten

Jessica, Sue, Maria and Tina are pretending to play house where each has a different “role.”

• solitary

• associative

• parallel

• cooperative

Sarah plays with a dinosaur by herself in the three-year-old classroom

• onlooker

• solitary

• parallel

• cooperative

Paul and Jeff play blocks by each other, not interacting at al

• parallel

• associative

• cooperative

• solitary

Henry, Andrea and Tom work on mother’s day cards at the art table

• cooperative

• unoccupied

• onlooker

• solitary

. Tina and Shaina play with dolls, back to back and not interacting

• associative

• cooperative

• solitary

• parallel

Josh plays with a rattle and puts it in his mouth to teethe on it

• unoccupied

• onlooker

• parallel

• cooperative

Aiden, Alisha, Tucker and Brady pretend to be firefighters at the playground

• cooperative

• parallel

• onlooker

• solitary

Emma plays with a classroom pet, a turtle, while Josh watches from a few feet away

• cooperative

• parallel

• onlooker

• solitary

Flora and Jefferson run around the playground chasing each other and yelling

• parallel

• cooperative

• onlooker

• associative