Play and learning for infants

Just been to a talk about play in early childhood, it presents a lot of ideas and set me thinking. It was interesting to find out something about child's play that maybe I need to change some mindset about playing & educating.

I've learned:

- Play as a response to life
- Play is a child's way to understand their surroundings, body, relationships, feeling and developing ideas
- A lot of toys may not be necessary for the child to learn
- Adults is better to let the children play amongst themselves rather than supervising
- Adults don't need to teach everytime the child pick up a toy, the children will learn by playing
- Play promotes creativity


Online infant game

Learning, playing & your newborn


Some ways to play & stimulate learning for the baby, as in the above website:

- Gentle caresses, sing with a soothing lullaby
- smile, poke out tongue, making different face expressions
- put baby on their tummy to strength neck/shoulder, always supervise & be ready to help.
- put on sothing music, hold the baby and sway to the tune