International Day of Play
Celebrating International Day of PLAY
A day of play - Wednesday 11th June 2025
Play is at the heart of everything we do at playgroup. This special day, declared by the United Nations, recognises the vital role of play in every child’s life. Play supports children’s development, boosting creativity, confidence, social skills, and emotional wellbeing. It’s not just fun, it’s essential for learning, growth, and a healthy start in life.
Learn and grow through play with friends
Playgroup is a regular place to meet, offering babies, toddlers and young children a wide variety of early learning experiences. It's a great way for your child to learn about the world, make friends and develop social skills. Playgroup has endless benefits for your little ones to learn, grow and develop through play with friends, such as:
- Interaction and socialising
- Building self-esteem, resilience and confidence
- Early brain development through play
- Smooth transition into school
Celebrating play at playgroup or at home!
We have developed activity resources to give you ideas to celebrate the day of play at your playgroup. These ideas are fun and easy to do at playgroup and at home and also give you information about how these play activities benefit your children's learning, growth and development. Download the PDFs here:
Learn through PLAY - Sorting & Matching
Click here to learn more about sorting & matching
Physical Activity Dice
Click here to learn more about physical play
Learn through PLAY(dough)
Click here to learn more about playdough
Here are some of the activities we had at our Celebrate Play Day event, our way of celebrating this special day in our playgroup community!
Click below for activity ideas you can do at playgroup or at home and their benefits for early child development:
Physical Play with Soft Blocks (for babies)
Sensory Play (great for children with development delay or disability)
Spread the word!
Let your family, friends and network know about the power of play through social media, using the hashtags #CelebratePlay #CelebratePlayDay #InternationalDayofPlay #PlaygroupWA #IDoPatPlaygroup - we have also created a social media tile for you to share on your playgroup's platforms. We encourage you to tag us or send us your playgroup celebrating the day of play so we can share the magic of playgroup!
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