 Now we will learn about how children learn critical thinking skills during their play. A good play influences students critical thinking skills. So children can learn critical thinking aspects such as asking open-ended questions, developing their own hypothesis regarding diverse situations and choosing to intervene in issues. For example, when we are playing a game, we plan our children first. What will we do? We are playing, we are playing catch-and-catch, or we are making a house, or we are driving a car, so we plan everything. Then during the plan, all those things are imaginative, they have some toys that they imagine in different characters. So they have to do decision-making between them. And then they think critically, is this my plan right or not? How will I make the next plan? What will happen if this doesn't work? What will happen if the car falls down? What will I have to do? In such a situation, they are making open-ended questions. What should I do? How should I do? If they are playing outside the school or outside the house, then they think what should I do? What should I do? See, the question of why is a part of the critical thinking, that you should look at its pro and con. Meaning, if a child starts doing anything, then he will first think about the advantages and disadvantages of it, whether I can do this in the house or not. Okay, this will be more useful. We call it a hypothesis that you can guess for some solution. If I do this, then this is going to happen. Then there are many things that are not right. In such a situation, it has to be intervened. If it is not going well, then I will put another way. Then it creates flexibility. And this is the part of critical thinking skills. And this cannot be played without. Because in the rest of the things, the teacher is planning or the parent is planning. When a child plays freely, and he imagines his own things by himself, and he has to manage it by himself, then he is also making his own decisions by himself. Children can utilize play to actively develop knowledge, meet social emotional needs, and learn problem solving skills. Learning problem solving skills during play is the most important. Children try to solve different situations. What can be done if this is not the case? The boat is running in the water. The boat starts sinking. They drop the water from there, then they try to run it. If they are breaking from any stone, they will get rid of it there and put it on a new path. All these strategies which then have to be adopted and solve their problems, have to think more about the solution to its problem. There are many solutions given. One of those solutions has come to the mind. We call divergent and convergent thinking. It has a very large stage in critical thinking skills. Then we see that they develop informed decision-making skills and learn to make choices. What do I have to play? Why do I have to play? Will it be more suitable for me? Which team should I make? Who should I choose as my friend so that we can play this game? So these are choices and choices you know very well that decision-making is always in choices. These are four things in front of me and one of them will be something that will be beneficial for me. Which team will play for me? What do I have to pick? What do I want to do? Do I want to paint? Do I want to build a house? Do I want to build something through blocks? So these are my choices. Now those children and children will be free in their choices. If they are making some decisions, then of course there will be some logic behind that decision-making. So the play contributes to the feelings of emerging self-identity, self-directedness, self-confidence and competence. So what are these things? I have done it. I have played this game. I have made a block. I have put my jeep in a race and won the race. And I did some kind of activity. So this sense of achievement is self-identity in you. That is the identity that creates your own sense of achievement. And then your self-directedness, that is what should I go into? What should I do? What is better for me? This is a very big thought that is very important in the future. So this can teach the children the tale itself. Because there they do decision-making themselves. Then it is that they learn flexibility. Flexibility means that if a solution doesn't work, if a method or a hypothesis is proved wrong, then it will come to the other side. If it is not like this, then if this playmate is not right, then it is the other playmate. So they quickly change their decision and force them to work on logic. So if we understand that all the learning that is there starts from the beginning of the game. Because this is a natural action. So we can create critical thinking skills in our children very well. Play contributes to the feelings of emerging self-identity, self-directedness, self-confidence and confidence. Which means that when children achieve sense of achievement, can complete their game or play their role, they feel self-identity. And then when they decide on their own, what should I do, what should I do, what should I do. And when they achieve their goal, they have a self-directedness which is very important for them in the future. Then they have self-confidence in them that they can do this. And they have courage and bravery in them so that they can fight all kinds of situations in the future. And in the same way, flexibility is also a very big answer that is created through play. Because if a child does not work on their own, then they come to the other side. And in this way they are able to know that even in the coming days, if they have a strategy or a strategy that will not work, then the other side can be successful.