Role-playing games for children have always been present in the field of children’s entertainment. Not only because they are fun and interesting, but also because they allow children to develop both psychologically and socially. In addition, they help to strengthen the personality.
When playing a character, the child can recreate a series of aspects that may seem simple at first sight. The story, the character, the tastes, the words, the gestures of those characters that he creates and gives life, are as much a way to occupy other shoes, to live other worlds, as to develop empathy.
On the other hand, one learns to be consistent. For example, if the pirate that the child plays is afraid of snakes, obviously he will not play with the snake toys, he will seek to escape or devise some attack to eliminate the «threat».
In other words, children’s role play helps develop their imagination, thinking, attitudes, language, personality and will. On the other hand, it allows them to communicate in a different way and really explore who they are. In addition, contact with other children while playing is satisfying for their social life.
What are role-playing games for children?
When a group of children get together and agree to play pirates, they create a series of characters, rules, environment and so on, under which each one must act. In this way, everyone can interact and have fun with other names, other tastes and fictional stories that can be inspired by real life, cartoons, among others.
It’s all about playing a role and establishing consistent relationships. Many times, the first role plays are those that seek to imitate the life of adults. Thus, children can say «let’s play in the kitchen» or «let’s play at being parents», and other similar ones.
Types of role-playing games for children
In many adult role-playing games are constituted from a table, those directed to children can exclude it and create the story through multiple themes. For example, here are some types of role play for children
Historical recreation. It is a type of role play where each child plays a historical character, they dress up in theater style, which will help them, besides dressing up and characterizing characters, to understand the plot with didactic outcomes.
Detective role play. In the style of Sherlock Holmes, the role play focuses on solving a grievance guided by a narrator in the plot, where with the clues the children will discover the bandit. This way the children will be stimulated by the story.
Conquest of animals. The characters in a role-playing game do not have to be human. Because with the imagination they have the power, the possibilities are multiple and infinite elephants, giraffes, lions, even dragons. The story must acquire a meaning, each character must be clear about what he is going to do and why.
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