Areas Quote by Richard Louv

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to…

— Darell Hammond

Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.

— Jeff Foxworthy

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

— John Cleese

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

— Daniel Greenberg

Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

— Richard Louv

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

— Emma Walton Hamilton

One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof expression, new…

— Fred Rogers

“When children play, they exercise their senses, their intellect, their emotions, their imagination—keenly and energetically.… To play is to explore, to discover and to…

— Jaak Panksepp

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to…

— Fred Rogers

When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative…

— Fred Rogers

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

— Donald Woods Winnicott