Play With Objects
According to Piaget (1967), play with objects helps young children extend their physical knowledge of the world. He observed that, from infancy, children actively engage with objects out of innate curiosity and with minimal adult guidance. Their learning results primarily through direct experience, trial-and-error, and practice. As children gain further understanding of objects through sensory exploration and physical manipulation, they develop abilities to differentiate objects by sorting, sequencing, and classifying. Children also learn to recognize and produce patterns of objects.