Heuristic Play

Heuristic play is an enriching type of play where babies and young children interact with everyday objects, rather than toys. The goal of heuristic play is to provide a wide range of sensory stimulation to help children discover and learn things for themselves.

Heuristic Comes from the Greek word to discover or find out.

Heuristic means…

• enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves.
• "a ‘hands-on’ or interactive heuristic approach to learning"
• proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined.

 

• Heuristic play is rooted in young children’s natural curiosity.
• Babies and young children grow, they move beyond being content to simply feel and ponder objects, to wanting to find out what can be done with them.
• Heuristic resources can be sourced from anything if they stimulate the senses and are a good talking point.

 

Heuristic Play Woodlands