Children's Creative Play by Karin Neuschütz

Author:Karin Neuschütz [Karin Neuschütz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780863159787
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Free role play

The inspiration for playing at this age starts to come from within. Children have a clearer idea about what they want to enact than previously, so the external environment isn’t as influential as before. They have an inner image of the play.

Listen to some five-year-olds as they play. First they sketch a framework for the play, and then they speak in the past tense:

‘Let’s say you were a man who came to visit, and I was a mummy who was going out with her baby, and you had a high hat.’

When all the important facts are established, a child says, ‘Now we’ll begin,’ and then they start talking in the present tense.

‘Knock knock, says the man, knock, now I’m going in – hello, isn’t the daddy home today?’

‘No, he’s out right now.’

‘Oh dear.’

Now a pause: the actors notice that the high hat is missing. They rush to the dressing-up box and get a hat. ‘This can be the hat.’ Now that their play corresponds to their inner image of how it was supposed to be, they theatrically repeat the whole beginning.

Play at this age has a special mood. When they were younger, the borders between play and other activities were quite loosely defined. But now, children can suddenly stop playing. Conflicts often arise because children have different inner images of how it should be: ‘No, let’s play something else now,’ or ‘If you won’t do it like I said, I’m not going to play!’ They’re now capable of actively withdrawing from the play when it doesn’t suit them any more.

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