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Play may seem like an innocent interaction with toys and other objects, but it is actually helping children learn about themselves and about the world around them. Play is crucial because it helps develop different domains in the brain and teaches young children about their senses.

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Play builds cognitive skills, such as problem solving, through cause and effect and making comparisons. When a child plays, they may figure out that if they do one thing, it will lead to a certain result. This cause and effect will help the child learn about problem solving. If a child is playing in water and they stomp hard, they will be able to make the comparison that stomping hard will create bigger splashes.

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Play is crucial for children’s social-emotional development because it will help them with regulating emotions and experiencing interactions with others. Playing with others motivates children to practice self-regulation skills, such as controlling their impulses to grab things that they want at the moment. When children are playing, they learn ways to resolve conflicts over toys that works for all of the children involved.

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Physical play helps children use their energy to develop fine and gross motor skills. Children who experience a lot of physical play learn what it takes to be healthy and it helps develop connections between the nerve cells and the brain. This can improve and develop strong muscles and ones, balance, and cardiovascular health.

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During each play session a child is involved in, there is communication between the child and others, or the child and themselves. Rolling a ball back and forth requires two people, this is the same for communication. Children learn how to use language when they are playing. When playing, children’s vocabulary is being built and they will be able to recognize the meaning behind words. They will be able to learn different animal names, colors, what it looks like to be sad or mad, and much more. The more familiar a child is with these words, the more they will use them.

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Sensory play is just what it seems, it is play that uses one or more of a child’s senses. Sensory play is simple, open ended, flexible, and relevant. Children’s interaction with their environment around them will help with brain development. From the day they are born, children explore their environment through the use of their senses. It’s important that children still experience this, even though they are not babies anymore.

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How does creative play help children's sensory development?

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How does creative play help children's sensory development?

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Creative play is a type of play that doesn’t have a specific end result. It is anything that a child plays with or creates. Senses are important in creative play because they allow children to try new textures, sounds, tastes, sights, and movement. Children are not confined to one sense in creative play. They are able to interact with the environment with their senses and create their own play through that.

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Resource for play adaptations for children with special needs

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Resource for play adaptations for children with special needs

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NAE50 play modif. for children w.disabilities.pdf (lamission.edu)
This website gives examples of play modifications for children with disabilities. There are many adaptation examples such as environmental support, simplifying activities, material adaptation, and much more. Children with special needs have difficulty participating in play activities. These adaptations will help the child become more interested and more able to participate. Being more interested and more able to participate, the child will more easily develop their cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and language skills.

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Resource for play materials that will help engage in sensory development

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Resource for play materials that will help engage in sensory development

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Sensory Play - Action for Healthy Kids
This website explains how to safely engage in sensory play for a child and gives ideas on what to provide for sensory play. It describes how to create sensory bins, sensory bags, and a sensory play mat. These play materials will help a child to develop all of their senses. Senses are important to be developed because through this hands-on learning, cognitive skills, observation skills, and drawing conclusions can be developed.

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Help kids get in touch with their senses by facilitating sensory play using interesting materials to create tactile and visual experiences.

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Resource that will help provide play materials that engages developmental domains

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Resource that will help provide play materials that engages developmental domains

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Good Toys for Young Children by Age and Stage | NAEYC
This website is a great way to get ideas of what to provide as play materials for children. Under each age, there is a description of what developmental stage they are in and how to expand their play based upon that. For young infants and toddlers, there are ideas for cognitive, physical, and language development. These domains are important for a child because they help develop problem solving skills, fine and gross motor skills, and building their vocabulary.

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Good Toys for Young Children by Age and Stage

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In addition to being safe, good toys for young children need to match their stages of development and emerging abilities.