This category involves integrating memory images, imagination images, and personal knowledge of self. It includes verbalization skills, interaction with a leader., development of a story line, and conflict, resolution. This category is prop and place related. We provide the props and children go to the place suggested by the prop and play there. The props stimulate recall of memory images upon which children can act, and also spark creation of imagination images.
Place is merely the central aspect.
In this place, children use props in novel ways, practice fluency skills, and learn flexibility as they interact with the play leader. These activities focus on the development of kinesthetic memory and imagination and on acquiring physical skills such as coordination and balance. We believe that the internal physical maps are laid down early and children can develop physical ways of knowing very early in life. In this category are two types of activities that make use of art materials. The second set of art-related activities focuses on using an art activity to stimulate some other type of activity.