What is age-appropriate play for preschool and kindergarten children ?
Preschool children’s play activities often build on the experiences they enjoyed as toddlers. With better developed motor and social skills, they enjoy active, supervised play by themselves and with others. Preschool-age children are better able to use crayons, pencils and paints, safe scissors, and paste or glue. Preschoolers tend to be increasingly confident about their ability to run, jump, climb, ride tricycles, and play ball or other interactive games. They usually relish chances to play on playground equipment and to use their large muscles, indoors and outdoors. Many preschoolers love to pretend and can cooperate to play together. Puppets and other props may be used for role playing and story telling. This imaginative play helps children act out interests and desires in a situation with intrinsic rules for behavior. Children’s pretend play is often related to stories that adults have read to them, so books can become important parts of a child’s play. Children should have access
