She turns on her imagination, invents pretend scenarios, and makes up stories. She starts to learn persistence and how to deal with frustration. She discovers new things and challenges herself. What good things happen when your child plays alone? She learns to direct her own fun and exploration. These activities plunge your child into the world of imagination, experimentation, and invention. The last category is Arts & Crafts, which includes Spontaneous Arts and Creative Crafts ideas. The second category, Self-Directed Play, is a freewheeling, unstructured style of play that unfolds rather naturally for your child when you provide the playthings and offer a bit of help to get things started.
These games are designed for engaging your child's attention for ten or fifteen minutes and require only minimal setup and occasional adult help. First, you'll discover what I call "Busy-Body Play." Busy-body games and activities are ideal for the many occasions when you need a few minutes of concentration to make dinner or work in the kitchen while your child plays nearby. There are three main types of solo play covered in this section of the book. All games are preschooler-tested and approved.Ī note to parents: Play matters! Technology has its place, but these unplugged games are designed to stretch the imagination, spark creativity, build strong bodies, and forge deeper connections with family and friends.
There are outdoor games and indoor games, games to play solo and games to play with others, arts and crafts, songs and rhymes, playdates and party favorites––even instant activities to do at the kitchen table while dinner’s cooking. “Just plain fun!… Will help parents give their children the kind of childhood that more and more children are missing.”––Mary Piper, PhD., author of Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girlsįrom Animal Doctor to Lunch Bag Puppet, Letter Hunt to Life-Size Me, here are more than 200 screen-free games and activities to help kids enjoy the wholesome, old-fashioned experience of playing creatively and freely…without technology. Unplug Your Preschooler with more than 200 screen-free games and activities!
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