early childhood - ages and stages in play

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Children at each age have to cope with changing and maturing sensory, motor, social mental, and emotional powers. As they develop, they have a driving desire and need to practice their skills in an ameliorating milieu of play and challenge, Piaget divided play into three ages and stage. Pretend or symbolic play occurring between two and six years when the child uses pretend play, symbols, or objects to represent reality. Wooden cylinders are made to represent soldiers or other people. She moves them about to make them march or climb up to the roof of one of the block constructions. Dolls are fed, washed, disciplined, and put to bed. Sand is made into pies to be eaten. This is the type of imaginative socio dramatic play that one finds in the nursery school and kindergarten. Play involving games with rules that encompass both competition and teamwork. This type of play starts in elementary school beyond the eight year.