Playing & Exploring – Playing with what they know
Once babies have learned something about the properties of objects they move on to see what they can do with them – how they can play with them. Find out how this develops into sophisticated pretend play, developing rules and problems for them to solve and supporting their self-regulation.Good for looking at
- Characteristics of effective teaching and learning
- Playing with what they know
- Pretend play
- Object play
- Co-operative play
- Symbolising
- Problem solving
- Turn taking
- Agreeing to the rules of play
