interactive play
Audience joins in
Interactive play is activity where participants actively engage with each other or with responsive elements rather than passively observing.
The term appears in child development contexts for play involving back-and-forth exchange between children or caregivers, and in entertainment for games, exhibits, or performances that respond to audience input: The museum features interactive play stations for kids, Interactive play helps toddlers develop social skills.
- make believeImaginative fantasy play
- role-playingActing out characters
- playground gamesOutdoor children's amusements
- puppet showsPerformances using hand-controlled figures
- cooperative gamesGames with shared victory
drama games · teamwork · team building · relay races · charades · storytelling · tag · collaboration · scavenger hunts · shared goals · turn-taking · video games · obstacle courses · augmented reality · communication skills · show and tell · audience participation · dance routines
- playgames, played, toys, playfulness, players
- pet exercisefetch, dog walking, dog park, tug of war, ball throwing
- animal playroughhousing, rough-and-tumble, chasing, pouncing, romping
- dinner theaterdinner show, murder mystery, whodunit, melodrama, cabaret
- adaptive playsensory toys
- play typesdrama, comedy, tragedy, farce, melodrama