The Importance of PLAY!
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Creativity and Play: Fostering Creativity
"Creativity is the freest form of self-expression and, for children, the creative process is more important than the finished product... Avoid dominating the play. Play should be the result of the children's ideas and not directed by the adult. Try to foster your children's abilities to express themselves through play. Try to help your children base play on their own inspirations, not yours. Your goal is to stimulate play and encourage children's satisfaction in playing with each other or by themselves.
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds by Kenneth R. Ginsberg, MD, MSEd
"Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with heir children."
Understanding Through Play by Steven B. Silvern
"Piaget (1962) identified four kinds of play: practice play, symbolic play, games with rules and constructions. (Piaget, in fact, separates constructions as a unique form of play that leads to adapted behaviors.) Opportunities for active education exist within each of these kinds of play."
Some Medical Benefits of Drumming...
http://drumaticinnovation.com/benefits-drumming/health-benefits
Other Play Resources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-sigman/play-importance_b_821238.html
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PBS TeacherSource -- Find lesson plans, activities and local resources.
Books:
Play & Activity:
"Creativity is the freest form of self-expression and, for children, the creative process is more important than the finished product... Avoid dominating the play. Play should be the result of the children's ideas and not directed by the adult. Try to foster your children's abilities to express themselves through play. Try to help your children base play on their own inspirations, not yours. Your goal is to stimulate play and encourage children's satisfaction in playing with each other or by themselves.
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds by Kenneth R. Ginsberg, MD, MSEd
"Play is essential to development because it contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youth. Play also offers an ideal opportunity for parents to engage fully with heir children."
Understanding Through Play by Steven B. Silvern
"Piaget (1962) identified four kinds of play: practice play, symbolic play, games with rules and constructions. (Piaget, in fact, separates constructions as a unique form of play that leads to adapted behaviors.) Opportunities for active education exist within each of these kinds of play."
Some Medical Benefits of Drumming...
http://drumaticinnovation.com/benefits-drumming/health-benefits
Other Play Resources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-sigman/play-importance_b_821238.html
PBS Parents -- PBS's online resource for parents and caregivers. Site includes tips and articles from child development experts, activity searches, and information on PBS programming and local events.
PBS Kids: Grownups -- This area of the PBS Kids Web site is devoted to parents and caregivers and includes links to educational philosophies, educator guides, and at-home activities related to PBS Kids programming.
PBS TeacherSource -- Find lesson plans, activities and local resources.
Books:
- Meals & Nutrition
- Play & Activity Ideas
- Emotional Development
- Education and Child Care
- Exceptional Children
- Gender and Culture
- Language, Literacy, and Mental Development
Play & Activity:
- Miller, K. The Outside Play and Learning Book: Activities for Young Children. Mount Rainer, MD: Gryphon House, 1989.
- Miller, S.A. Learning Through Play: Sand, Water, Clay, and Wood. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
- Morse, P.S. and Brand, L.B. Young Children at Home and in School: 212 Educational Activities for Their Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1995.
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