{"id":546,"date":"2025-04-11T14:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/?page_id=546"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T12:53:33","slug":"types-of-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/types-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Play Scotland\u2019s document <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playscotland.org\/resources\/print\/Play-Scotland-Play-Types-Tooolkit-bringing-more-play-into-the-school-day.pdf?plsctml_id=11593\">Play Types Toolkit (2017)<\/a> exemplifies the work of Bob Hughes (2006) who identifies 16 types of play that children experience and that \u201cengaging in each one is a necessary corollary for a child\u2019s healthy development.\u201d (Hughes, 2006) Practitioners then need to be aware of the different types of play, what they might look like and what kind of opportunities should be provided to allow for these types of play to be experienced.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/playpedagogy\/uploads\/sites\/40381\/2025\/04\/11140505\/Play-types-1024x725.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/playpedagogy\/uploads\/sites\/40381\/2025\/04\/11140505\/Play-types-1024x725.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/playpedagogy\/uploads\/sites\/40381\/2025\/04\/11140505\/Play-types-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/playpedagogy\/uploads\/sites\/40381\/2025\/04\/11140505\/Play-types-768x544.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/playpedagogy\/uploads\/sites\/40381\/2025\/04\/11140505\/Play-types.png 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What are the Play Types? Intro to Play Theory\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qJruM9_ovDg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Scotland\u2019s document Play Types Toolkit (2017) exemplifies the work of Bob Hughes (2006) who identifies 16 types of play that children experience and that \u201cengaging in each one is a necessary corollary for a child\u2019s healthy development.\u201d (Hughes, 2006) Practitioners then need to be aware of the different types of play, what they might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/types-of-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Types of Play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35301,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":642,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/546\/revisions\/642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/playpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}