Children learn the social skills of caring, sharing, taking turns and cooperation in other concrete ways besides observing adult behavior. They learn by involvement in spontaneous play with other children. It is your task to set up the learning environment so that children can interact with each other. Dramatic play should be allowed so that children can create their own roles with props and clothing, household materials and utensils. Large floor puzzles create a cooperative environment.
Wagons allow one child to ride and the other pull and then trade turns.
Children can learn with puppets that demonstrate turn taking and what is considered bad behavior of not sharing. Children's books with themes of friendship, sharing, caring are available. When two children work On the computer together they are learning to cooperate. A timer, sign up lists and tickets can be used to help facilitate learning some of these skills. By observing how children interact with one another, you can use this information to help develop social skills, show them how to enter into group play and even give them a way of handling interpersonal conflicts.