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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Ideas for imaginative and creative play at its best, 5 May 2003
As a young mother I'm always aware of my daughters' development and how I can aid this in a fun and interesting mannor. It is with great delight that I discovered 'Creative Play' by Dorothy Einon, an expert in child development.
Its pages are illustrated in detail throughout, both in colour and black and white.
Einon explains in a brief introduction why children do the things they do - the basics, why do children play? what keeps them playing for so long?
The book is split into three main sections: Birth to Two Years, The Pre-School Years and From Six to Ten Years - the broard ages covered being very usefull including the fact that you don't need to keep buying more and more books as your child grows! On each page the text runs down the middle of the page with extra illustrated ideas for constructive play in the margins. A theme throughout the book is how certain 'games' or activities develop certain skills, and at what age these could be introduced to your child. Einon also demonstrates ways of turning your housework or daily activities into explorative play for your child.
As well as games that can be shared with your child there are also many examples of ideas that children can play 'by themselves' nod nod wink wink, thus also expanding their indipendance at different stages of their growing. Some of the ideas I liked, some of the more simler ones that I had forgotten could be done at any age were drawing and painting using different media, raiding car boot sales to find interesting dress up clothes and make-believe games. Other ideas I have found include photographing your childs day to day activities and turning the photos into a picture book so that your child can point out what they do each day, recognise the activities and themselves, making stilts, different ways to create music, looking at nature, various ways to aid self discovery, cooking, combining work and play , craft ideas such as fingerpuppets and the thrill of wearing mummys hat and shoes and sitting in the washing basket or crawling through a cardboard box! There is a whole wealth of ideas waiting to be experimented with, some just reminding yourself of what you used to do as a child and others just making you think "Are, now that's a good idea!" I'm so pleased I bought this book!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ideas for imaginative and creative play at its best, 16 May 2003
As a young mother I'm always aware of my daughters' development and how I can aid this in a fun and interesting manor. It is with great delight that I discovered 'Creative Play' by Dorothy Einon, an expert in child development.
Its pages are illustrated in detail throughout, both in colour and black and white.
Einon explains in a brief introduction why children do the things they do - the basics, why do children play? What keeps them playing for so long?
The book is split into three main sections: Birth to Two Years, The Pre-School Years and From Six to Ten Years - the broad ages covered being very useful including the fact that you don't need to keep buying more and more books as your child grows! On each page the text runs down the middle of the page with extra-illustrated ideas for constructive play in the margins. A theme throughout the book is how certain 'games' or activities develop certain skills, and at what age these could be introduced to your child. Einon also demonstrates ways of turning your housework or daily activities into explorative play for your child.
As well as games that can be shared with your child there are also many examples of ideas that children can play 'by themselves' nod nod wink wink, thus also expanding their independence at different stages of their growing. Some of the ideas I liked, some of the more simpler ones that I had forgotten could be done at any age were drawing and painting using different media, raiding car boot sales to find interesting dress up clothes and make-believe games. Other ideas I have found include photographing your child’s day to day activities and turning the photos into a picture book so that your child can point out what they do each day, recognise the activities and themselves, making stilts, different ways to create music, looking at nature, various ways to aid self discovery, cooking, combining work and play, craft ideas such as finger puppets and the thrill of wearing mummy’s hat and shoes and sitting in the washing basket or crawling through a cardboard box! There is a whole wealth of ideas waiting to be experimented with, some just reminding yourself of what you used to do as a child and others just making you think "Are, now that's a good idea!" I'm so pleased I bought this book!
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