"pretend play" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about activities in which children (or adults) act out roles in an imaginary scenario. For example, "The children enjoyed an afternoon of pretend play, creating their own storylines while acting out different roles."
Dress up and pretend play superheroes, of course!
The treatment is based on a daily therapy, the Early Start Denver Model, that is based on games and pretend play.
"If we want to have great scientists, letting preschoolers explore, play and do pretend play exercises the capacities for doing science," Dr. Gopnik said.
KIBO is kind of like constructing a sequence of actions, similar to the way kids do pretend play and create stories.
John's older son put on the Xbox 360 and started to play the game Cars whilst his younger child decided to "pretend play" with a PS3 SIXAXXISISISISS controller.
Imagination and pretend play in kids is linked to both an enduring positive mood in life and overall coping ability.
For the more lighthearted, there is also a giant pile of pretend Play-Doh (\u201cPlay-Doh\u201d), by the art world\u2019s designated prankster, Jeff Koons.
Results revealed that children who participated in a 5-week fantastical pretend-play intervention showed improvements in EFs, whereas children in the other two conditions did not.
Within the fantastical pretend-play condition, children who were highly engaged in the play and those who were highly fantastical demonstrated the greatest gains in EFs.
A sample of 110 children between the ages of 3 and 5 years were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: fantastical pretend-play intervention, non-imaginative play intervention, or business-as-usual control.
And they enthusiastically pointed at us as in active urban combat with the pretend-play targets we were.
