This kind of play promotes mental dexterity in children who are able to take a different perspective in solving a problem and develop creative ideas.
While working with and playing with loose parts, children learn to make experiments and hypothesis and arrive at conclusions: a solid basis of learning in real life.
Use Loose Parts to Teach Social Skills Oral Language
Worker with loose parts encourages coordination and communication in children. The children in a play-based environment can collaborate in order to create, build, and play with loose parts.
They will have to share their ideas, negotiate roles, and solve the conflicts by cooperating in this collaborative play, which improves their sense of social skills and positive interactions.
Loose parts secondly help with language development since, a child can discuss plans with peers, define or narrate what they are doing.
Communication skills are not the only things that are acquired at a young age through this social interaction, because these children also learn to have a sense of community and work together as a team.
How the Loose Parts can evoke the Imagination and Creativity
Among the most impressive advantages of loose-parts play is that it can excite the imagination and creativity of children.
The beauty of loose parts is the fact that they are open-ended which means that there is a wide range of ways children can use the materials participating in the creation of some creative ideas.
When children play with loose parts they have access to the materials to create a castle out of blocks, tell a story using natural objects and make up a new game; they have the freedom to engage in endless imaginative play.