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Children need freedom
to play and to express
themselves, to explore
and make sense of
their world.
Visit www.edinburgh.gov.uk/play
WHY PLAY?
10 Things to do before you’re 10! TIP!
1. Roll on your side down a grassy bank 2. Make a mud pie 3. Build a sandcastle 4. Climb a tree 5. Make a painting using your hands and feet 6. Play Pooh sticks 7. Make snow angels 8. Ride a bike through a muddy puddle
9. Find 10 different leaves in the park
10. Collect frogspawn
Designed by the City of Edinburgh Council • Corporate Services • 0156 / CF/ GD/ July 2011
Play can be challenging and make children’s hearts
beat faster! It can be lively or relaxed, noisy or quiet,
solitary or with friends. Play can happen with or without
equipment, indoors or outside. It can be light hearted or
very, very serious!
Children need freedom to play to practise skills, explore
the world around them and develop understanding in
their own way and in their own time. Real play comes
from children’s need to express themselves, to explore,
learn about and make sense of their world.
Play is learning for life, but most of all Play is fun!