Both structured and free-form play contribute significantly -- and in different ways -- to your child's overall development. Structured activities help introduce children to new ideas.

Unlike structured activities, which come with rules and predefined outcomes, free play allows children to take the lead. Whether they’re building castles out of cardboard, role-playing imaginary ...

Unstructured activity is usually in the form of play. Play can vary in intensity—a running game like tag promotes heart-pumping activity, while building a sand castle is less physically demanding.

We did encounter some large groups engaging in "play" in the open areas/ grassy fields, but it appeared to be mostly structured forms of play. They took part in rule-based, organized, large-group ...

Structured Play Reporter Marge Pitroff of member station WUWM in Milwaukee reports on the role of modern summer camps in the lives of today's kids, ...

All forms of free play counted as less-structured activities. The researchers conjecture that when children are in control of how they spend their time, ...

Free play is nature’s means of teaching children that they are not helpless. In play, away from adults, children really do have control and can practice asserting it.