If an adult following Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, saw a four-year-old boy pouring wet sand out of a bucket two feet above the ground, to make sand castles, would watch and scaffold. The adult would provide guidance and support to the contemporary level of capability of the boy. However, if an adult supporting Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory, saw the four-year-old boy doing the same thing, they would have to show him figuratively or illustrate symbolic play. For example, the adult would have to model by building a sandcastle through the boy's perception. Children from the ages two to seven are in the preoperational stage. During this stage, children are egocentric, and cannot reason or combine ideas, they grasp an understanding through
