WHAT IS ACTIVE PLAY?

“Active play is essentially physical activity with spontaneous and

occasional bursts of high energy. It can occur indoors or outdoors, alone
or with friends and family. Even before children can walk, they can start
playing. As they get older and learn more skills, opportunities for active
play increase.”(ACT Health and ACT Government. Fact sheet 2)
 WHAT IS ACTIVE PLAY? HOW IT IS RELEVANT WITH CHILD
DEVELOPMENT?

• Active play is not only important for physical development, but also
important for social, emotional, cognitive and language development.
Some reasons are listed below to describe why active play important for
the children because without knowing that we can connect it with
developmental domains.
• For building and maintaining strong heart, bones and muscles.
• For developing movement and hand-eye coordination.
• For fostering social interaction skills.
• For building and developing self-esteem skills.
• For Improving critical thinking skills.
• For encouraging risk taking skills.
• For developing emotional skills.
• For enriching vocabulary and language skills.
 STAKEHOLDERS
• Stakeholders are the important part those affected by the issue and who
has interests, concern, idea and thought to motivate and implement the
issue. They play a vital role to plan and care the issue and need support
to success the issue. In our proposal stakeholders name are given below:
• -Children
• -Parents
• -Early Childhood Educator
• -Governments
• -Public health
• In active play issue, children are the main stakeholder because it affects
their physical and mental development. If children are not getting the
proper environment for their growth, they will have obesity. It can create
many major health problems and can affect the other stakeholders also.
 OUR ISSUE

• Issue: Give opportunities to the children to involve in the active

play; get the well-developed childhood.
Why Canadian
1. Canada weather conditions
kids are not having enough active play?
In Canada most of the children spend more than half of the day in childcare facilities, and at times Early Childhood Educators are unable to

provide the recommended physical activity levels due to an inclement weather, which significantly limits the amount of time children spend

outdoors facilities.

2. Modern technology and television

While more and more countries are developing physical activity guidelines for the 0 to 5 years period, and also they are confirming that the

childcare centers provide kids with satisfactory outdoor play equipment and outdoor play space, but unfortunately children in Canada spend

their times to play video games and electrical stuff

3. Involvement of parents from their busy life

Parents just can limit the screen time but at the same time they can engage with children by setting their schedule to be more active such as

take the children to the park, swimming pool or dancing classes, exploring a new hiking trail or participating in an organized sport as a family.