Young children often take part in role-play: creating play sequences that are based on their own experiences, such as cooking, going to a cafe or shopping. As they get older, these scenes can become very sophisticated, and take on an imagined dimension, such as 'going to the shops and meeting an alien'.
We also encourage children to get involved in small-world play, usually with small wooden or plastic animals and figures. This type of play can help children to move on to creating imagined stories without objects: a skill that will be needed later for, among other things, creative writing in school.
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