The Many Languages of Play

And 15 specific types to notice

“The child has a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)…
a hundred ways of thinking, of playing, of speaking.”
—Loris Malaguzzi

My brother and I performed a lot of living room shows in our youth. Costumes, lipstick, ill-practiced dance routines. I was especially fond of starting in a crouched bud position, then blooming upwards like a rose —…