Six Different Types of Play - #4 Constructive Play

There are six different types of play that encourage healthy development.

1.       Cooperative: Play with peers or adults

2.       Independent: Play of an individual

3.       Active: Physical Play

4.       Constructive: Building or making things

5.       Fantasy: Pretend play

6.       Rule-based: Events that have rules

During constructive play, children make things. Planning and creativity are combined to manipulate objects for building. Constructive play focuses more on the process of creating than on the end product. Through building with different materials, children explore and discover how the world works. Using constructive play, children actively experiment with the objects in the environment, explore new possibilities, and use principles of simple mathematics and science. Examples of constructive play are building a tower with blocks, completing a puzzle, creating a model with clay, making a sand castle, or drawing sidewalk art.

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