“Let’s pretend to be…” is commonly heard from young children as they play and interact at school, daycare, or at home. Many adults encourage imagination and creativity but others are afraid that ...

Have fun playing pretend with your child. Try these ideas that use everyday items from around your home. Daniel Tiger’s friend Jodi makes a special box tunnel from a cardboard box. What could you ...

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 ...

Researchers say there is evidence infants are exploring the world of make-believe before they're even aware they are doing it. A new study exploring the origins of pretend play suggests infants ...

Many people often think of play in the form of images of young children at recess engaging in games of tag, ball, using slides, swings, and physically exploring their environments. But physical play ...

There is an imagination gap being driven by tablets, phones and TV screens ...

Children are incorporating Covid-19 into pretend play. By Paul L. Underwood Last month, I popped into one of my favorite local restaurants. The place is known for its eccentric menu, created daily ...

Discover how an ape playing tea party teaches us humans are not the only beings with complex mental lives. Imagination develops in early childhood through creative play and later becomes a ...

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 ...

A new study exploring the origins of pretend play suggests infants perform interactional patterns with elements of pretense a lot earlier than thought. Pretend play is often considered a developmental ...