By pretending and engaging in dramatic play, children are able to:
- Act out real life or imaginary roles, playing alone or with other children, without the accompanying stress of responsibility.
- Stimulate and express their thinking, creativity, and imagination by manipulating and rearranging their environments and experiences.
- Escape from the limits of being little, weak, or naive.
- Experiment, explore and extend their boundaries of experience, size, strength, time, space and login.
- Build self confidence with opportunities to feel important, to support or repair their self-esteem, feel less helpless, more in power.
- Challenge their own thinking and resourcefulness.
- Focus on new concepts and ideas an integrate them into their lives
- See what it feels like to temporarily be someone else by acting out what another person might say and do.
- Enhance their communication skills: vocabulary, comprehension, speaking, attention span, listening to and following directions.
- Clarify their feelings and vent their problems by putting them into words.
- Express their ideas, needs, feelings, fears and fantasies safely.
- Neutralize negative, aggressive, destructive feelings by releasing unacceptable impulses.
- Prepare for grown-up roles by imitating many different adults.
- Lean about different situations, people, animals and places.
- Work out their fears, problems, resolve issues, experiment with solutions, make sense of confusion.
- Test limits, take risks, reverse usual roles, act out anti-social behaviors.
- Develop a sense of morality and pro-social behaviors.
- Gain knowledge about social relationships and understand themselves better.
- Enhance cooperation, and take turns as they plan and work together.
- Discriminate between reality and fantasy by bringing them together in play.
- Experience similarity, diversity and inclusion.
- Cultivate senses of belonging, joint purpose and cooperation.
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