My understanding of Pre-Operational Play is that children develop Representative Function between the ages of 2 and 4. During the Representative Function sub-stage, children master the ability to picture, remember, understand, and replicate objects in their minds that are not immediately in front of them. In other words, children can create mental images of objects and store them in their minds for later use. Infants and toddlers understood their world as containing only what they were immediately experiencing and nothing else. For example, by pretending children practice and strengthen newly acquired representative structures. By given children opportunities to play with other children it will give viewpoints in seeing things in drawings
