Benefits of Play

Similarly, Macintyre (2001:1-29) notes that play provides children with opportunities to explore, manipulate and interact with their environment, thereby encouraging them to investigate, create and discover their world and its offerings. Play is also said to motivate children to add to their knowledge and understanding of the world as well as to provide a particular mindset in which they feel challenged to understand all that is new and unknown. Macintyre (1-29) also points out that play is hands-on experience in learning how to master the environment. In other words, to play is to learn to live in this world in a skilled and competent way.

Learning Through Play and Brain Development

As just noted, one of the many benefits of play is that it facilitates cognitive development. Indeed, Ceglowski (1999:1-3) notes that play can operate to enhance children's problem solving ability, and their degree of creative thought; it can also assist them to get high grades in school. Moreover, it helps children to see multiple solutions to problems and enh

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ic example of dramatic play is the children's perennial of Cops and Robbers. Dramatic Play: It's Importance in Learning Brown, Sutterby and Thorton (2001: 1-9) state that dramatic play is an imitation of reality and as such, it merges children's imagination with the real world. Dramatic play is said to involve: 1. Imitative role-play in which the child performs a make-believe role and acts it out through imitative bodily action and/or speech. 2. Using objects that while not replicas of the real objects nonetheless represent it. 3. Verbal make-believe so that the mind is as much or more engaged than the body. 4. Persistence in role playing which can last, on average, as long as ten minutes. 5. Interaction with others 6. Verbal communication in which verbal dialogue is exchanged between players. As to the importance of dramatic play, Brown et. al (2001: 1-9) report that it strengthens and builds peer relationships and assists a child with emotional maturity and well-being. The authors also point out that while new skills are often not acquired during dramatic play, there is a good deal of practice of recently learned skills, some of which might have been quickly lost were it not for play. Further, dramatic play is s
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