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In the popular Exchange book, Play: A Beginnings Workshop Book, Betty Jones, in her article "The Play's the Thing: Styles of Playfulness", notes the many ways children learn through play...

• to make appropriate choices among many possibilities.
• to use their imagination, to improvise, to think flexibly, and explore new options.
• to be aware of their own real interests, without being distracted by other possibilities: to say "yes" and to say "no."
• to solve problems, both with materials and with people.
• to cooperate with other children in the creation of mutually satisfying projects.
• to work through their feelings in creative, non-destructive ways.
• to pay attention to a project until it's done.
• to use something �" a dramatic action, a word, a toy, a set of blocks, a collection of marks on paper �" to represent something else �" a real experience, a powerful feeling. Practice in these sorts of representation is essential in the process of becoming literate, which is another form of representation.
• to see themselves as competent and interesting people, with useful skills and good ideas.

Betty Jones' complete article can be found here.

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We have bundled together a variety of practical resources on play and are selling them at a discounted package price. OurPlay Tool Kit contains the following items:

• Play: A Beginnings Workshop Book
• The Power of Play: How spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children by David Elkind
• Exchange Article Collection #8 �" Play CD
• Plus three Out of the Box Training Kits…
  - "Play and the Outdoors"
  - "But They're Only Playing"
  - "Supporting Constructive Play in the Wild"

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