Superhero play is a fun way to encourage your children to use their imaginations. Today we’re featuring a free printable superhero mask template. Downaload it and let your kids imaginations soar!
Why is superhero play important?
Encouraging your kids to play superhero is an excellent way to increase creativity, and encourage playtime with siblings and friends. Superhero play provides your children with many benefits. Once you read this post, we’re convinced you won’t be able to resist downloading our free superhero mask template to let your kids experience the awesome benefits of superhero play.
Benefits of superhero play
Healthy emotional development
Superhero play helps your child develop a healthy understanding of a variety of emotions. While some parents have sought to argue that superhero play is aggressive, it really isn’t. Through superhero playtime, your children will start to grasp a variety of concepts – like fairness, justice, equality, and more. Moreso, they can begin to understand how to express seemingly negative emotions in a healthy way. Emotions like fear, anger, and more. Healthy emotional development is a vital component of learning how to express emotions in everyday life.
Build leadership skills
As your children enjoy superhero play with their friends or siblings, they can work on mastering some leadership skills. Your children get to play the hero or villain and in turn, start to use leadership skills to encourage teamwork to save the day during superhero play. These skills are important in our society and will forever be an important part of adult life.
Boosts imagination
Lastly, superhero play allows your child to use their imagination as they download and print their free superhero mask template to color for their playtime. Pretending to be a superhero during playtime is an excellent way to boost imagination as your child uses their creative thinking skills to develop a superpower that their superhero can use to save the day.
How to use our superhero mask template
Click the square image below to download this superhero mask template. Open the file on your computer and print enough superhero mask templates as you’ll need for superhero playtime. Encourage your child to color in their superhero mask template based on their favorite colors or use the already colored superhero mask option.
Your children can use their masks to create superpowers that will help them enjoy superhero play with friends or siblings. Encourage your kids to use their imagination by helping them create a list of superpowers they have and work together to create a fun imaginary playtime scenario with your kids for hours of fun.
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Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine! Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time. KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10. It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania. Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on. Get in touch TODAY!