Play in young children is integral to the learning of children at this age.
“Play gives children the chance to incorporate new information into their behaviours and to elaborate and extend known information or familiar skills into new contexts, so says Lesley Morrow, writing in her article, “Preparing the Classroom Environment to Promote Literacy during Play”.
For a child’s early education, play is an important part of their development. It’s the child’s experience of learning with play that increases their absorptive abilities to learn.
Fergus Hughes sums up play, in his paper, “Play in Special Populations”, “Play is an essential ingredient in the lives of children.”
It seems an innate ability that, children play and learn.
Getting children to play Play mats
Play and its part in early childhood education is widely supported in the professional literature.
Play mats are an environmental tool supportive of creative, physically active learning. They invariably involve physical activity and engagement with educational concepts contained on those play mats.
The use of educational play mats in early childhood education is expanding, based on the positive fee back of teachers.
It is the flexibility of play mats that makes them such an interesting environmental tool in teaching young children. In fact, there are many fun, educational games that teachers can facilitate and children can play with the use of play mats.
Custom play mats: Use your ideas to teach more effectively
Day in, day out, teachers are looking for better, more effective ways to teach.
For early childhood education teachers, it is now extremely easy to have those ideas on educational play mats for teaching. It’s low cost way to teach local cultures, impart other knowledge specific to that locality or to solve a particular issue of pedagogy.
These Play mats can even be personalised with a child’s details so they have their personal play mat. This is an interesting idea as a fundraiser for pre-schools and kindergartens.