Embark on eleven playtime adventures with Pocoyo and friends as they learn the importance of playtime is enjoying it with others. Enjoy playing hide and seek to playing dress up as pirates!

These sequences show children from 7 to 30 months playing, uninterrupted by adults. They show the remarkable exploratory powers of the under 3s and the value of this type of play in encouraging concentration and therefore cognitive abilities. There are 6 ten minute sequences, with infants sometimes alone and sometimes in pairs, showing favoured schemas of action emerging at different ages. Each of the six sequences consists of a child/children playing...

The playful side of Yanomamo life is shown on a day during the rainy season when women and children of the village play a game of tug-of-war.

Physical play is the first type of play to emerge but also the least researched and most neglected by educators. However this is rapidly changing as educators realize just how vital it is from many points of view. Inbuilt psychological drives mean that children want to be able to do things for themselves and physical play leads to children becoming adept at using their bodies. Being motivated to succeed at tasks is an important factor in effective...

Pretending to be shamans, a group of young boys imitates their fathers, blowing ashes into each other's noses and chanting to the hekura spirits.

A group of boys engages in an arrow fight in the village clearing. They shoot blunt arrows, practicing their aim and learning to dodge the shots.

Eebee's adventures focus on the important developmental skills that form the foundation for all future learning. Each adventure is designed to help parent and baby transform everyday play and exploration into learning that lasts. Filled with real-world situations that babies can actually understand, build on, and learn from, these adventures guide both parent and baby on the exciting path of social, emotional, cognitive, and physical skills development....