1992'5, p.31
Palagina N. N.
Object play activity in early childhood
(RESUME)

The contents and the meaning of child's play with uninformative objects as well as its development are studied. Longitude observation of 6 children in a family and experimental research in a kindergarten (200 children aged-1-2.5 years) using the methods of Russian folk pedagogics show that the contents of object play include the variation of place, conditions and means of actions with the object, its equipment with uncharacteristic functions and the traits of an alive one. Such a play makes children comfortable, they acquire the possibilities for conditioned actions, symbolic replacement, imagined situations. Object play is a material base of images' transformation. The show of possible actions with the objects during the lessons and in everyday life is necessary for its development.