Playing

Toddlers Playing

• Toddlers learn through play. Play is often hard work but can have many rewards for them and you.
• Look at where, how and with what your toddler is playing. Watching them at play gives you a chance to slow down and witness the delight of playing.
• As your toddler copies you in play, you help them develop many new skills.
• Toddlers are curious. They explore by putting in and pulling apart, pushing, poking, dropping and throwing.
• Make sure play is safe.
• Give toddlers lots of space. Let them scatter their play materials. Constant tidying up is exhausting for you and can interrupt them.
• All play is worthwhile, even when it looks like a huge mess. It's the effort and the doing that is important - not what it looks like at the end.
• Toddlers have a short attention span so don't expect them to stick with one thing for too long.
• Playing is a learning opportunity and playgroups and toy libraries can help.

courtesy Department for Community Devlp, Australia.

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