As a parent, I am most concerned about what sandbox games are and what benefits sandbox games are for my children! Let's talk about how sandplay promotes children's development.
What is a sandbox game
Sandplay refers to sandbox works made by using sandboxes, sand, and sand tools, which can fully express people's mental images, consciousize the subconscious, and then use Jung's "mental image" theory to analyze the works of the placers.
The name of the sandbox game gives three keywords: sand, disk, and game. First of all, children like sand and seem to have some kind of out-of-nature affection for sand. Almost all kindergartens have "playing with the sand" and "playing with the pool", the same sand game, two plates, one holding sand and one holding water. After the transformation of the sand table, both are added with sand, but one of them is used as a "dry sand game" and the other can be added with water, which is called a "wet sand game". Play is in the nature of children. Thus, the game contains the restoration and obstacle of nature, so that the conditions and opportunities to heal and heal can be obtained in the game.
The role of sandplay in children's development
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Sandbox games are a way of communicating and communicating. For children, image thinking develops earlier than abstract thinking, and language cannot express inner feelings, experiences, and emotions. Therefore, when children place toys and models in the sandbox, they are actually expressing and presenting their emotions and psychological states; through the sandbox and toy models they use, the child's psychology or inner world has the conditions for objective recording and analysis, and it is often more effective than language.
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As an intuitive and experiential "gamification" activity, sandbox games are not only loved by children, but also promote children's intellectual development through touch and expression. Touching sand can promote children's tactile development, and toys of various colors can promote children's visual development. The development of touch and vision will promote the development of the brain, which in turn will promote the development of children's intelligence.
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When sandboxing, the sandbox is a small world created by children, and this free creative activity can enhance children's creativity. Children's spontaneous play, spontaneous creation, turning the sand can make different shapes of mountains and rivers, placing toys can form a kaleidoscopic scene, these activities undoubtedly have a great help to the improvement of children's creativity.
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Now parent-child communication is more and more valued by parents, but do you really understand the heart of the child? Through the interpretation of the counselor, or the parent-child sandbox activity, parents can understand the child's psychology with the help of sandplay, and the sandbox made by the child is the manifestation of the child's inner state.
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In addition, under the guidance of the sand table consultant, the sand table game can also solve the problems of aggression, hyperactivity, introversion, and timidity that occur during the child's growth.
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Sandplay can promote harmony between children's body and mind. Sandbox game is a psychological expression technology, every scene made by the child is his inner expression, through such an expression, the child's inner order is sorted out, personality development is promoted, and the psychological level is improved.
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Sandplay can make children enjoyable and relaxed, sand is one of the most popular materials for children to play, almost everyone has had the experience of playing sand in childhood, children in different countries and different periods are no exception.
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Sandplay games can improve children's cognitive ability, you can think of basically in the sand table will be reflected, pack animals, plants, characters, buildings, nature and other thousands of toys, undoubtedly the children's cognitive ability will be greatly improved.