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