Provide opportunities and spaces at home with simple props for pretend-play, such as dolls, stuffed animals, dishes and blocks.
Pretending through open-ended toy objects (e.g., food, utensils, cars, planes, and buildings) and toy characters (e.g., dolls, animals, and figures) can promote the use of words and narratives to imitate, describe, and cope with actual circumstances and feelings. As children imitate what adults do during their pretend play sessions, such imaginative play is correlated to language development, self-regulation, symbolic thinking, and social-emotional development.
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