Importance Of Play

Play is important for children’s growth and development. Play makes their life more enjoyable. Play develops their creativity and imagination, provides an opportunity to interact with each other, and enhances confidence and self-esteem for them to face future challenges. Children always have a desire to play freely, because play is their instinct to enjoy life and flourish in it. Their desire to play is what makes children, children. This desire to play is a child’s instinct to grow appropriately in all developmental domains. They feel happy when their desire to play is satisfied. But when their desire to play is restricted, their basic need for fun and their basic right to learn, grow, and develop are ignored. Thus, children would not be able

Children are the same. When children have a sense of control to do what they want to do individually or with their peers, they gain more confidence. The reason why children enjoy playing is because they are good at it. Play is something they feel like they can do well at all time. They are experts in playing. When you take away their play time by giving them more work, you are not only taking away the most fun part in their kindergarten life, but you are also taking away what they could do best. Play helps children to grow their self-esteem. Children in between age two to seven are in a critical period for developing self-esteem. Thus, whenever we limit a time to play in a kindergarten classroom, children lose an opportunity to develop their

For example, a child would not have a learning opportunity to increase her gross motor skill, as much as she spins or plays, if she was doing her seatwork all the time. Although the example above focuses on the development of a child’s gross motor domain, play could also enhance other domains, such as cognitive and socio-emotional domains. Play will eventually help children get ready for the future by providing opportunities to satisfy these developmental needs. An example for cognitive development is when a child is playing with the Legos. Here, a child is simply playing, but how he interlocks different sizes of block to construct different things from Legos improves his spatial ability necessary to learn geometry and shapes effectively in the future. In other words, by being engaged in a constructive or manipulative play, children could achieve a foundational concept of geometry and shapes that they will learn later in life. For socio-emotional development, play allows children to learn about social roles and practice those roles so that they can be a contributing member of the society in the future. By pretend play, for example, children learn how to interact with people, response appropriately, and engage in the world around them. Thus, when we replace play to work time, we are taking away their opportunity to lean social skills necessary for them to