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Enabling Environments: Let's explore ... dolls and dolls' houses
Nursery World,
9 July 2008
Dolls happily lend themselves to use in extended play across all areas of early years provision, and their houses make the perfect resource for domestic and construction activities, says Judith Stevens.
Psychologists often divide play into several categories - object play (playing with objects such as building blocks, dolls and cars); pretend play (pretending a block is a mobile phone, for example); socio-dramatic play (acting out a story and taking different roles); language play (exploring words); and physical play (running, jumping and climbing). All of these types of play are important for different reasons. The key is variety. The wonderful...
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