Role play is important as it develops the minds of two-year-olds and encourages them to be creative in the way that they play. Children of this age are experimenting and copying what they see around them. With recognisable equipment, such as cooking and cleaning utensils, they can mimic carers to a degree. But largely what they are experiencing is role play in a more random, sensory way than a child of three years old. Schematic behaviour is more prevalent in two-year-olds - putting things in and taking them out of containers, making things go round and round and lining things up.
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