Slava and her friends are stepping into the most hilarious police adventure ever! Watch as they set up their pretend police ...

From developing social skills to fostering creativity, pretend play in young children is likened to being a "metaphoric multivitamin" in an editorial published in the journal Neuroscience and ...

The Farm to Table play kitchen is designed for pretend play and is intended for children 3 years or older. The play kitchen ...

Pretend play is associated with a host of enhanced cognitive abilities such as executive function, language and perspective taking, which are important to education, making the minimization of ...

Pretend play is particularly interesting to me because it involves a combination of complex cognitive, physical, and social behaviors that even very young children are capable of performing.

Approximately 192,000 model play kitchen sets for children are being voluntarily recalled following one reported death.

Plus, pretend play is a social phenomenon: children also pretend play with others. If someone pretends to pour tea into a child's empty cup, the child may follow suit and pretend to drink from ...

Pretend play allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings, and the modulation of affect, the ability to integrate emotion with cognition (Jent, Niec, & Baker, 2011; Seja, & Russ ...

“Children could come to Pretend City while parents were getting educated and do a lot of pretend play,” said Gabriela Velasco, infant development specialist at MOMS OC. MOMS OC programs aim to ...

Our play spaces are free to use all day, every day until about 30 minutes to closing. When you’re using your imagination, there’s always new fun to be had, so come visit us and see the power ...

So pretend gun play is generally A-OK and might even make kids less violent—hooray, one less gun-related thing to worry about. And in fact, it might be something to celebrate for another reason.

Pretend play can be fun for preschool children, but a new University of Virginia study, published in the current online edition of the journal Psychological Bulletin, finds that it is not as ...