My Connections to Play

                              
Both photos retrieved from google images


Two essential items I would need for play would be rather simple but mean absolutely everything:
 Hands and Feet

Back in my childhood, play was not with different items or different games, it was simply our imagination, running wild in the woods, and exploring new things. We would find new things, go places our parents told us not to go but yet we still did it because we were interested in the unknown, we were curious. Our parents would always tell us to go outside and play and we had so many things to do that we stayed outside all day doing what a grown up would maybe see as much of nothing but to us we were learning so much. I can recall going to a small river stream and seeing tadpoles for the first time. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. My dad told us not to go but we went anyways. Just exploring and finding anything that looked halfway interesting.
    Play now, compared to play back then is completely different. There is so many technological advances that causes kids to do all that exploring in doors now. It is a lot more scripted and you're practically held within a box because outside of the resources that the games that children play bring about the child is not able to explore things outside of that. My hope for younger kids is that even their parents will promote and encourage more exploratory type play inside as well as outside the home.
    I do believe that play had an impact on my life through childhood as well as adulthood. I feel as though play contributed to my ability to have hands on experience with some of the things that I learned about at school, I feel as though play is a contributing factor to me analyzing situation far beyond the surface.