The Essential Ingredients for Imagination

• A person in a child’s life

  • someone who inspires and sanctions play
  • someone who accepts the child’s inventions with respect and delight

• A place for play

  • a sacred space

• Time for play

  • open-ended
  • unstructured

• The stuff of play

  • simple but curiosity provoking

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