Play is active.

The children will involve

thinking, organizing,
planning & interacting
with environment.
Play is personally
motivated.
The children must
choose which play
they want to
participate.

Play is often
nonliteral.
The play is out of the
box.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
PLAY
Play has no extrinsic
goals.
The children are doing
a task to suit his goal.

The play has no

extrinsic rules.
The children must be
able to alter the
rules.

Player supply meaning to

the play.
We have to accept
whatever the children
describe things.