Imaginative Play Pretend Play For Toddlers. Stop for a meal or drinks and let the kids play. Pretend play can be as simple as pretending to answer a toy phone or a more complex setup like playing restaurants at home.
Your toddler might also enjoy play acting herself pretending to be asleep pretending to drive a car or pretending to be mommy or daddy to give her baby doll a bottle. See hours on the website. As defined by the american academy of pediatrics aap.
Cardboard box pretend play.
There is so much research out there that talks about the benefit of pretend play especially for the toddler age group. Pretend play can be as simple as pretending to answer a toy phone or a more complex setup like playing restaurants at home. A child s imaginative and creative play is essential for the development of their social emotional and cognitive skills in addition to being a way to explore and discover the world says donna. A 2 year old needs a toy baby bottle to look like more or less like a bottle whereas a 3 year old might use a shoe as her bottle her imagination will close the gap between what s real and.
