Children and Imaginative Play
For anyone who has ever suffered from stage fright, it may be galling to watch the unselfconscious way that children make themselves centre stage. Every child is an instinctive actor – a natural tendency to learn through imitation combined with their trademark lack of self-consciousness brings out the thespian in them all!
This makes the world of imaginative play an immensely rewarding place for parents and children alike. Kids build their imaginations by allowing them to run riot – figuratively speaking – and play activities based on characters and role play can also help build their language, social, emotional and sharing skills – as well as increasing self-confidence and having a great time while dressed as a pirate, of course.
Almost any play materials can stimulate a child’s imagination and lead them to generate new worlds, population and scenarios – a cue for chairs and cushions to be pressed into assistance as the walls of a castle! – but traditional toys such as toy cars, dolls houses, plus of course the good old dressing-up box, still lead the way. Play sets – either they be farms, zoos or fire stations – are fantastic ways of putting the child “in charge” of an enthralling new environment, and it is very enjoyable to watch them assign character traits to the figures, adopt dissimilar voices and generate situations for those characters to act in.
Given children’s propensity for grabbing a crayon and daubing anyone that comes to hand, arts and crafts are a near-limitless way for them to express their imagination. Although they may have a hard time explaining why “mummy” has green hair in their final masterpiece!
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