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Changing Play From eighteen months onwards

play changes. 1. After eighteen months how has

the child’s physical development improved allowing more advanced play?

2. What other aspects of development also become important in play?

3. What vital social skill are these children showing?

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Development from 18 months to 2 years

This child is two and she is bored with her old toys. Her language, social skills and imagination are growing.

4. What games or activities could a parent now introduce?

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Toys for a two year old

5. Give three things that you think the two year old will gain from playing with a sand pit.

6. Name one other outdoor toy and one indoor toy that would have similar qualities.

7. Now the child has a larger vocabulary what else should they have for quieter play?

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The Two to Three Year Old


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Daniel is a typical 2½ year old. He is developing his gross motor

skills, this means he can enjoy pushing his big truck.

8. What three skills will he need to join in with his older brother playing with the brio train?


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9. Name one other toy that you would buy for these children to play with and say why you would choose it. Note one child is 2 and the other is 4.


Three to Four Years 10. Most play before three is

solitary or alongside another child. How does play change after three?

11. How are the children of this age changing socially or emotionally?

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Social Play


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playgroup what social issues or problems can you see?


Pre School Play

13. What should be introduced into pre school play?

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Ready for School

The child now has a wide range of play possibilities.

It is important that there are a variety of play activities.

Match each child’s play to one of the four development areas below. For each one say why you chose that type of development..

physical development intellectual development emotional development social development

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Suggested Answers 1. Better coordination and balance

allows more physical play. 2. Intellectual, emotional and social

aspects of play. 3. Sharing and taking turns. 4. Role play games, helping out

simple cooking, toys where she can use imagination.

5. experiments with new materials, it is outdoors, improves dexterity allows imagination…

6. Water play set, play dough. 7. Board books and activity books

including colouring books with words.

8. Fine manipulative skills, social skills of sharing and following game ‘rules’ imagination from understanding of the world.

9. Large blocks, train set dolls house large figure farm or zoo. A toy that can be played with together allowing different levels of play.

10. Social play becomes much more important they want others to play with.

11. Children no longer centre on themselves they need to interact with others.

12. One child is isolated, the two girls are not considering the other girl, the boys are playing together but not sharing well.

13. Investigative play, learning of specific skills, word and number play.

14. Physical because this is purely a physical skill. 15. Social the boys are cooperating in the game. 16. Intellectual she is clearly thinking about how she is crafting the paper 17. Emotional he is expressing himself and a child’s picture is often a gift for someone.

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