Children can gain perceptual awareness as the play when they explore and handle many different -but safe- objects.

By exploring the weight and characteristics of a variety of objects:

• balloons
• balls
• scarves
• feathers
• hoops
• ropes
• beanbags

under the careful guidance of a caregiver, the scientific principles such as gravity, weight can be experienced.

Youngsters, of course, imitate the recreational activities of their older siblings and adults. The basic skills of tossing and catching or bouncing and targeting are underdeveloped. And a great way to build fundamental movement skills in children is to introduce them to the handling and exploring of safe items: soft, squeezable, light.

While the children are trying to move these items: giving them to others or receiving items to their own hands: they begin to understand the dynamics involved.

Their brains begin to store the results of their explorations:

• what happened when a ball is bounced
• how high to toss a balloon to keep it floating
• where to stand when someone else is trying to bounce a ball to the child

Active play is a great way to build sensory knowledge and the physical activities that accompany play build great pathways to the brain by moving muscles!

Keep basket of safe items in a basket or box for play times. We move to learn and learn to move and in that process learn to LEARN!

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