Types of Play

6. Children are interacting to achieve a common goal. Children may take on different tasks to reach that goal.
9. Involves experimenting with objects to build things; learning things that were previously unknown with hands on manipulations of materials.
11. Children will interact with each other and share toys, but are not working toward a common goal
12. Children are observing other children playing. They may comment on the activities and even make suggestions, but will not directly join the play.

1. Children’s behavior seems more random and without a specific goal. This is the least common form of play.
2. The ability to use objects, actions, or ideas to represent other objects, actions, or ideas and may include taking on roles.
3. Exploring, inspecting, and learning through repetitive physical activity
4. Children play alongside each other, using similar toys, but do not directly act with each other
5. The main theorist used in class this semester!
7. Children play by themselves, do not interact with others, nor are they engaging in similar activities as the children around them
8. Imposes rules that must be followed by everyone that is playing; the logic and order involved forms that the foundations for developing game playing strategy
10. he defined the different types of play