Playground Quotes to Help Your Kids Learn the Importance of Outdoor Play

Playgrounds are one of the only places on earth that allow kids to improve on their physical and cognitive skills. Outdoor playground equipment and other similar play structures aid with the physical strength that children garner at the playgrounds. However, nothing can fuel a child’s creativity better than inspirational quotes. I always focus on quotes, because I believe that they have the power to nourish children’s imagination. So here is a set of other powerful quotes that you should read to your kids. Here we go:

1. “Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” ~Joseph Chilton Pearce

2. “It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” ~Leo F. Buscaglia

3. “Play is the exultation of the possible.” ~Martin Buber

4. “Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life just doesn’t taste good” ~Lucia Capocchione

5. “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” ~Mark Twain

6. “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” ~George Bernard Shaw

7. “Play is the beginning of knowledge.” ~George Dorsey

8. “Play is so integral to childhood that a child who does not have the opportunities to play is cut off from a major portion of childhood.” ~Musselwhite

9. “Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.” ~Roger von Oech

10. “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.” ~Charles Schaefer

11. “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” ~Diane Ackerman

13. “Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” ~Abraham Maslow

14. “Whoever wants to understand much must play much.” ~Gottfried Benn

15. “The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” ~G. K. Chesterton

16. “Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.” ~Mr. Rogers

17. “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” ~Kay Redfield Jamison

18. “Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” ~Plato

19. “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” ~Carl Jung

20. “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” ~O. Fred Donaldson

21. “The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.” ~Brian Sutton-Smith

22. “Those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose the healing capacity for humor.” ~Stuart Brown, MD

23. “In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche

24. “If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.” ~Jean Piaget

25. “The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.” ~Erik H. Erikson

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