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Pretend Play
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WOODEN PINK TEAPOT Dolls House WITH FURNITURE & DOLLS GIRLS TOY PRETEND PLAY NEW $19.92 |
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Vintage 45-Piece Porcelain Miniature Tea Set-Pretend Play-Hung Hue Craft – EUC $12.99 |
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Wooden International Etnic Family x 6 pretend play $34.79 |
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Wooden Medieval Dolls x 4 (set1) – pretend play $20.90 |
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Wooden Medieval Dolls x 4 (set2) – pretend play $20.90 |
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Wooden Wizard & witch Dolls x 4 pretend play (gr8t for Harry Potter characters) $20.90 |
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Wooden Pirate Dolls pretend play $20.90 |
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Doll House 2009 Plastic Folding Carry Handle Pink Purple Pretend Play Case $5.99 |
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Adorable Dollhouse sturdy Furniture Wooden Bathroom Set Kid Pretend Role Playing $7.90 |
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KidKraft Girls Fun Mansion Deluxe Pretend Play Doll Annabelle Amazing Dollhouse $170.85 |
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Maxim DESIGN BY YOU DOLL HOUSE w/Furniture Pretend Play $112.99 |
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26 Vintage Chadwick Japan Pretend Play Doll House Food $24.00 |
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Maxim BASIC TREE HOUSE Pretend Play IMAGINATION 80010 $54.99 |
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KIDKRAFT MAJESTIC Mansion Dollhouse FOR BOYS & GIRLS PRETEND PLAY PRESCHOOL $228.95 |
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WOW! NEW Baby Doll STROLLER Pretend Play $14.53 |
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Children’s 13 Piece Mini Tea Party Set Porcelain Pretend Play Miniature Size $13.49 |
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Porcelain Tea Party Set 13 Pieces Miniature Pink Floral Children’s Pretend Play $13.49 |
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Porcelain Tea Party Set 13 Pieces Miniature Bone China Children’s Pretend Play $16.19 |
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Porcelain Tea Party Set 13 Pieces Miniature China Ducks Children’s Pretend Play $13.49 |
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Doll Crib Bed Bedding Mobile Kids Pretend Play Toy NEW $56.95 |
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Kids Boys Prince Pretend Play Castle Knights Horses NEW $168.30 |
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Folding Pretend Play House Dolls Miniature Food 14.5″H $26.95 |
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Savannah Amazing Girls Large colorful Mansion Deluxe Pretend Play Doll Dollhouse $134.27 |
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Colorful Plastic pretend play Dollhouse Miniatures Kitchen Supply Fruit & Knife $7.88 |
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Kidkraft So Chic Pretend Play Dollhouse with 45 Pieces Furniture 3 Levels 65078 $234.95 |
Playing – Think of it as Their Job
Play is a mode of discovery and invention. For parents, one of the most important challenges in today’s hectic world is ensuring that children have the time and opportunities to engage in the kinds of play that foster their mental and physical growth and encourage their imagination and creativity. For infants and young children, that means following a primary rule: “Less is more.” Kids at this age are so good at creating their own learning experiences that there is no need to load them down with meaningless toys or technology.
Pretend play and educational toys and games provide a learning experience that encourages discovery and growth. Especially, if they are designed to be educational as well as fun. Open-ended toys; such as blocks, arts and crafts materials like watercolors and clay, items to stimulate pretend play, as well as books, board games and playing cards, are a good bet. You can also help stimulate your child’s natural intellectual growth through verbal interaction and physical activities that entertain, inform, and cause wonder. For instance, magnetic educational toys or activities involving other creatures such as bugs, create an unparalleled sense of wonder.
There are a great many things we can, and should, teach a child. But there are many things he can learn only through self-initiated play. A child has to learn to stand before he can walk. He must learn to walk before he can run. He may fall down a hundred times. You can hold his hand, but he really wants to master the skills on his own. To him, learning to stand, walk, and run is not work, it’s a game — a game that not only serves as a means of learning skills, but also as a way of opening up his world.
And, remember that you are the boss and the child’s safety is your main concern.
About the Author
Author: Terry (MS, Early Childhood) has been in the early childhood business for over 25 years. She has directed Child Care Centers and been intensely involved in the training of teachers. Everything we have done is for the sole purpose of providing children with the best interactions possible to enhance their learning experience. One of the most positive things about our experience and our store is we have purchased many, many products for the 5 and under age group. To see some of the educational toys and games and other interactive products such as pretend play we have selected for this age group, visit The Learning Site for Ages 5 and Below.
As adults how and why we lose our imagination? I can not even pretend to play with my child?
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I think parents who force their children grow-up being stolen, and sending a measage to which it is difficult to put aside when they get older and their children should be encouraged playful. The reality beyond the innocence of us. Practice, and perhaps easier. Good luck Pandora
