Cooperative play requires more than one person. This includes ball games, see-saw, playing dolls or house, block building, some swings and hide and seek. Play with others emerges slowly. Your relationship with a child early in life predicts how well he or she will get along with others later. Dramatic play and creative play may also be called social play.
Children try out different roles and occupations such as firefighter, dancer, mom, dad and singer.
Kids at this age do a lot of imitating of the parents' roles. Manipulative play makes active use of the hands, muscles and eyes. Playing with puzzles, crayons, painting, scissors, beads, tools, blocks, dolls and trucks are a few examples. Though the toys you could buy might seem endless, what you have on hand may easily fulfill the role of stimulating play. Such ordinary items can unleash a youngster's imagination in ways that ordinary toys don't.