The Importance of Play
We’ve compiled a list of links, resources and videos to help you learn more about the importance of play! We’ll continue to add to this list when we find suitable resources, check back often! Be sure to share these great resources about play with parents and colleagues!
Outdoor Play and Learning: Loose Parts (Video)
Check out Evergreen’s video Outdoor Play and Learning: Loose Parts, and see how teachers and their students engage in curriculum-connected, inquiry-based learning right on their schoolgrounds using loose parts. See how using wood cookies, wood planks, burlap and ordinary kitchen items can provide rich, experiential learning opportunities right outside your classroom, and how this approach leads to “ more critical thinking, more creativity, more imagination.”
Children’s Unstructured Play Position Statement
Play is More Than Fun by Stuart Brown (Ted Talks, March 2009)
Learn how play builds kids’ brains – The National Institute of Play
Play: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Definitions of Play – Scholarpedia
The Decline of Play by Peter Gray (Ted Talks, June 2014)
This is Me – The Child’s Right to Play, International Play Association
