Enhancing a child's development with dramatic play means providing several play environments. Set up mock kitchens so that your child can practice cooking. Put together some clothing in a treasure box that your little one can use to play dress-up.
Role playing is a common type of dramatic play in which children are able to imitate the behaviors that they see in society. Through role play, a child can pretend to working her favorite jobs, and a child will likely even choose to emulate the roles of her mother and father by pretending to cook, clean or go to work.
Children don’t have to learn how to play make-believe; it comes very naturally to them. It can help children solve problems and improve their social interaction. Encourage your child to explore all the elements of creating a fantasy. In a child’s pretend world, there may be fictitious animals, superheroes and a city where everything is the child’s favorite color.
During dramatic play, children may also want to pretend to be their favorite animals. Children will have to use their bodies to imitate the movements of the animals, which increases an interest in animal studies and promotes exercise.
A child’s thoughts make up the basis of cognitive play. A child’s imagination is very active. Encouraging your child to draw pictures about the things they see in their imagination will give you an idea of how to set up dramatic play stations for them.