Creative Free-Play In A Child's Life

The relationship between play and learning seems obvious to many child professionals and parents, and yet there are still lack of understanding surrounding the importance of children's play. Some people believe that children need to "work" not play, and that playing serves no useful purpose in a learning and development environment. This is surprising considering that play, with its high levels of motivation and potential enjoyment empowers children (as well as people

There are benefits for children who play in organized activites and in creatively activites. Really there is nothing wrong with either one. Many people have there own inpinion but there is no or right answer. What activety would you have your child or children do?

Playing helps children grow and understand the world around them. The benefits from ‘playing’ for children is that they also learn how to socialize with parents and peers and it is an important and crucial part of their development. Also, children are always learning

It helps them to investigate and think more creatively. Third, kids get more freedom to express under no pressure, because they have no rules to follow with no pressure at all. In her book Playing to get smart,2006, Betty Jones, Ph.D., urges parents to understand that children and adults who are skilled at play with both things and ideas, have the power, influence, and capacity

Today, Many believe that children should be more focused on creative play other than, organized activities or vise versa. Playing with a more creative play out look gives the child or children confort to express themselves, interact with peers, and become independent thinkers. When on the other hand, some believe more organized activites are better with children bceause, it helps with children developing healthy attitudes towards them selves now and in the future.Along with the many diffrent programs a child can still attend and have fun doing while learning resposiblity.

What is play? Play is defined as engaging in activates for enjoyment & recreation rather than a serious practical purpose. Playing is a disorganized voluntary spontaneous activity, which may include objects, one’s body, symbol usage, and relationships. Play is flexible, individualize, grouped, motivating, self-directed, open-ended, or self-directed. (Smith, 2013) (Saskatchewan Ministry of Education, 2010)

Free-form play helps children learn their own interest and creativity. Using imagination is also important as a child, it gives them a freedom to learn to be their own person, and show their emotions. Pretend play also helps them understand the values and needs of others.

It's the aspect of all children's development. (Essa, 2014 p.36). Play helps children socially practice verbal and nonverbal skills and respond to peer feelings. This can be done by negotiating different role playing and help the child understand the feelings of the role they are playing and the person(s) they are playing with. (Smith, 2014, para 2) It also can teach them to take turns, share their materials and experiences. (Smith, 2014, para 2) Play can also help understand the point of view by working through conflicts of materials or rules in the classroom. (Smith, 2014, para 2) Play can help emotionally cope a child who is afraid of something. By creating an imaginary character who is not afraid of the dark, for example, can show them what that character does to overcome their fears and can create the idea in the child's mind of what to do when they are scared. Play is the way the child will understand the world better. (Essa, 2014

Children are like sponges who soak in all the information around them. They are also creative beings with imaginations. Should children have free creative play time? Should they participate in Organized Activites? Yes and Yes; I belive both are necessary for proper development.

expression of thoughts and feelings, and physical demands. It all interacts with in there dynamic process. Children learn about

There are many benefits to organized activities, and creative play. The parent is able to be involved in both types of play. It will make them a confident, responsible, and independent

When childs lives are filled with controlled activity, they need creative play to express who they are. Organized activities are very structured and usually have rules and decisions made by adults. Creative play is more hands on. Using materials the children can interpret how they see fit, and only thier judgment or imagination are the building blocks. Parents involved in creative play is important. Wether they let their children make the decisions or simply give them secluded time to find and use thier own creativity for innovation and problem solving.

This question is argued about between parents quite often. Are scheduled activities or creative play more helpful and importand to children? I, stating my own opinion, think that creative play for children is more important than schedule activities. They can still mix in schedule activites because it still wouldn't hurt. Let me explain why I think this way about this situation.

From my point of view , I think a child should have a creative play as essential for their heath. But, now a days kids are growing so fast and learning what life is about , on such young age and thats is why I support the benefits of a organized activities.

Previously, I have been aware of the effect of free play time during the early years on the future of each individual, but I was unaware of how play translates into adolescence and adulthood. Now that I am more aware of how great the effects are, I would like to take what I have gained from this article into my future as an educator. In my ideal future classroom, I would like to provide the children with ample opportunities for exploration. I hope to accomplish this by providing children with the appropriate materials and through developmentally appropriate guidance and instruction. The article briefly mentioned ways to encourage play in the adult life and I think that I will try to incorporate some of that information into my life as a college student in hopes of eliminating