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Puzzle Blocks

Playing with games and puzzles helps hone our ability to recognize and understand categories, patterns, and associations.

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Cloud Dreamer

Using our imaginations encourages original thinking, flexibility, adaptability, empathy, and the ability to generate multiple solutions to a problem.

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Tinker Ball

Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution.

Beyond Words

Video: From Child Scientist to Playful Inventor

What does children’s play have to do with the work of serious scientists?

Beyond Words

Video: Play to the Future

Is the quality and quantity of children’s play changing? How do new electronic and digital technologies affect children at play? How can new technologies provide rich motor and sensory experiences? If play is changing, how will that affect invention?

Beyond Words

Video: All Work and No Play?

Is it important for adults to make time to play? How do work, play, creativity and productivity relate to each other? When is the last time you played?

Beyond Words

Video: Play for Play's Sake (How Do You Describe Play?)

Does play serve a purpose or is the point of play to have no purpose?

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