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Symbolic Play
- Gives Children an opportunity to be whatever they want to be
- When children use an object to represent something
else e.g a banana as a phone
- Sometimes this play takes on real life events
such as hospital visits
- Emotional/Personal Benefits: give the child a chance to act
out scenarios which are familiar or troublesome
- Social benefits from playing/collaborating with
others. helps in character development.
- Language/cognitive benefits of using language in
different contexts and extending their imagination
- enables them to explore their emotions as it
gives them an opportunity to enjoy humor and
positive feelings
- helps improve memory in young children.
By creating mental imagery during
pretend play, children learn problem
solving.
- symbolic play is vital in early childhood development.
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