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What can play provide?
Opportunities for all
Play can provide:
Opportunities to take calculated risks. Opportunities to use and to hear different
sounds Opportunities for stories and books to be
read or to be read to.
Play can provide:
Opportunities to pick up the rhythm of poetry and verse
Opportunities to make friends, sustain friendships and make connections with others
Opportunities to become cognitively aware.
Play can provide:
Opportunities for children to explore their creativity and to be creative
Opportunities to be inventive Opportunities for and outlets to support
emotional well-being
Play can provide
Outlets for aggression and for the legitimate release of emotions
Opportunities to make believe Opportunities for physical skills to be
developed An opportunity for the child to function in his
own world rather than the world of an adult
Hutt (1979)
Describes play which is Epistemic Ludic Play with games