Play

Play for young children is not recreation activity,...
It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity....
Play is thinking time for young children.

It is language time. Problem solving time.
It is memory time, planning time, investigating time.

It is organization-of ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body
and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.
--James L. Hymes, Jr., child development specialist, Author