Play-Based

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

-Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)

Learning through play is about providing a developmentally appropriate environment with a variety of materials, including open-ended objects where children can choose what they engage with and how they will interact. It works through relationship-based interactions with a caring and appropriately responsive adults who have helped the child to build a trust in the environment and the adult relationship.