The Power of Play

• Play stimulates brain growth in children at the most critical time in their development.
• Renowned psychologist, Jean Piaget, summed it up best: "play is a child's work." During play, children develop cognitive abilities like abstract thinking and problem solving. Opportunities to play also present opportunities to socialize.
• Building with blocks, for example, is a math experience as much as it helps children develop concepts of shape, size, length and location. And with art, when they’re mixing colors, they’re also learning hand-eye coordination and exercising their imagination and creativity
• Play fosters health, intelligence and creativity 
• Imaginative play helps children make their own rules and practice self control
• Make-believe is a powerful tool for building self-discipline because during make-believe, children engage in what's called private speech: they talk to themselves about what they are going to do and how they are going to do it. 
• Through play they learn about the world around them.