What is symbolic play?

Answer 1

Children imagine and pretend when they are playing. They try out

ideas feelings and roles

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It is when children play using different roles and situations, with arguments of their own creation, for fun. It also refers to symbolic, or dramatic, play which occurs when children begin to substitute one object for another.

This type of game appears after two years together with their family and peers as in this time children develop their understanding of other people and apply what they have learned to their own representations. The child may pretend to do something (with or without the object present or with an object representing another object) or be someone. They may also pretend through other inanimate objects. Examples of symbolic play are:

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using a piece of wood to symbolise a person

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using a hairbrush to symbolise a microphone

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Using a doll to feed another doll