If to ask any adult, than the child is most often busy, the answer will be without effort: plays! A game for the kid preschool child – not just an entertainment, this important and necessary issue.
Playing, the kid learns the world, its laws and properties, learns to understand himself and people around, realizes the opportunities and embodies dreams. In the course of the game the child finds a way to give vent to the raging energy and to express the emotions.
Content of games
At the age of 1 – 3 years, receiving big freedom of travel, the child more and more actively investigates objects which surround him, Finds all new ways of manipulation them. But, as a rule, he is already attracted not so much by toys, how many objects of "the adult world": ware, furniture, tools, say, everything, than use other people.
The child of this age is capable to be fond for a long time of "establishing order" on the crockery shelf. Of course, adults have to take care that the kitchen utensils which are there were safe for the kid. He can selflessly touch grain, pour water from one vessel in another or arrange "concert", using pans and covers as "drum set".
And actually new appears in a game: the child tries to reproduce actions of adults already familiar to it, imitating them: "cooks" a dinner, a doll "feeds", puts bed it as mom; twists a wheel of the imagined car and knocks a hammer as dad. Such games have no plot yet, the child only tries the forces in adult classes which are still inaccessible to it.
As a rule, imitative games at first do not differ in richness of plots. The adult which will prompt that a doll, for example, not only it is possible to put to bed and feed will help to diversify them, but also to carry on walk in a carriage, to show it books, and the truck can not only go, but also transport cargoes, roll animals, move down from the hill …
Toys and objects substitutes
Here not to do without "the accompanying objects" any more: doll furniture and ware, tool kits, a garage for cars and so forth, and parents sometimes seek to fill game space of the child with the toys which are most imitating objects of the adult world
The child at this age it is active and with pleasure uses objects substitutes". So, the garage will be quite replaced by a box from under footwear, and "cake" for a doll can be made of several details of the designer of type of Lego. Therefore you should not seek to surround the child with the mass of the toys which are the exact copy of real objects. Use of objects substitutes develops imagination of the kid, his creative abilities better.