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CONCEPTS – When given the opportunity to play with concepts, often

weird and wonderful conversations emerge about sometimes taboo or difficult
experiences. Take death for instance, from our experience when children

engage in play involving recapitulative play opportunities such as skinning and

gutting animals, chat often turns to the children’s own experience of death,
whether that be a pet or a family member. This gives children the opportunity to

talk through their experience of the concept of death. There are many other

concepts like time, space and religion that children need to be able to play with
in order to make sense of them.