Benefits of Play

Autonomy and individuality shine through play. Children learn what makes them special and what they offer the world!

Creative thought abounds in every type of play. With fewer cognitive and social limits than adults, children bring creativity to all they do.

The perfect play kitchen or decked out dress up rack allows a child’s imagination and abstract thinking to flourish simultaneously.

Math and science skills such as trajectory, gravity, and number sense are inevitably explored through most types of play.

Environmental print, book reading, and pretend play all strengthen literacy in young children. So do songs!

Given the opportunity to work through conflict, children develop problem solving and interpersonal skills they will use their whole lives.

Fine and gross motor abilities are honed through sorting activities, art making, and big body movements like dancing and running.

Both risky and rough-and-tumble play help a child learn what they are physically capable of. It’s also an opportunity to practice consent.