Categories of Play:
Cognitive Play:
Builds thinking and reasoning

Social Play:
Various ways children interact with peers, these include independent play, partner play
(play beside each other but not with each other),  buddy play and group play

Physical growth of the body, health fitness: Fine motor activities awareness; body,
spatial, directional, rhythmic, tactile and temporal

Emotional Development:
Affective reactions during play for behaviors such as aggression and verbal signs like
crying and laughing.
Spatial Awareness *is the ability to orient to other people and objects in space
as well as how much space the body occupies.

Directional Awareness *Consists of laterial awareness of right and left and
directionality awareness of forward and back and up and down.

Temporal Awareness *Understanding the relationships between movement and
time

Rhythmic Awareness *Is the ability to make movements that are repetitive and
patterned resulting in balanced harmonious movement.

Tactile Awareness *Is the ability to discriminate through touch and feel