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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 ...

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My daughter’s preschool teacher Sylvia tells me that guns are just one prop in the vast arena of pretend play—“Kids shoot each other and then they get over it,” she says.

DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2022.2141252 Preschool children's play involving tablets is less creative and imaginative compared to their play involving physical toys.

After identifying these key components of pretend play, we theorized that the components develop hierarchically, in the order presented above, across the preschool years (3-5 years of age).

Then we presented each picture pair, side-by-side, to 100 children at the height of the pretend play years (3 to 6 years old). Pictures were gender-matched to the child.

In general, a preschool will describe itself as either play-based or academic. Within those philosophies are several more specific approaches, such as Montessori and Cooperative.