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Further Reading: Play

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Play is a wide ranging topic that has many research areas focused on many specific elements. Below are articles and organizations that look at play from a broad perspective. These articles build knowledge on the impact and importance of play, and how we can embrace play in all it’s formats.


All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed 

Play

How the Pandemic Continues to Impact Children's Play

The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds

Play Facts

Policymakers ‘must learn to harness the value of children learning through play’

The Lego Foundation: Learning through play

What we mean by: Learning through play

Learning Through Play : Increasing impact, Reducing inequality

Twenty-six studies point to more play for young children

The elements that make a perfect playground

 

Activity in muddy puddles

Being Active in Different Locations

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Kids playing in a preschool physical activity environment

Facilitating a Positive Physical Activity Environment

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Children's feet jumping on a trampoline

1. PROVIDE FACILITATED AND UNSTRUCTURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND OUTDOOR PLAY EVERYDAY.

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Children in a row, sitting at their desks, with early years provider. Some are raising their hands.

7. DEVELOP POLICIES ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, PHYSICAL LITERACY AND SCREEN TIME.

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