The Power of Dramatic Play
Dramatic play is an important part of childhood that engages every part of a child's brain. Creativity, communication, and social skills are just some of the areas tapped into during dramatic play. For the onlooker, dramatic play truly taps into the wonder of childhood, where anything you want to be is possible through pretending and imagination. Children naturally engage in dramatic play and enjoy creating stories and scenarios based on things they might have seen. Dramatic play also allows kids to experience things as yet unfamiliar to them, building new knowledge and vocabulary. One summer my three children transformed my house into an elaborate mini golf course. They twisted and taped together paper to make golf clubs, crumpled paper golf balls, and made a winding path of 18 holes up and down the hallway, into the bathrooms and bedrooms. They played with this for weeks on end and enjoyed it way more than the vast number of toys they had that came ...