Overview

• Ninety-six percent of respondents rate creative play as very or rather important for children’s cognitive and social development
• Only 51 percent of adults believe children have sufficient opportunities for creative activities outside daycare and school
• Eighty-one percent say constant access to digital media discourages children from engaging in creative pursuits
• Seventy percent of lower-income respondents and a majority in Eastern Germany (54 percent versus 35 percent in the West) identify financial and regional gaps as obstacles to creative activities
• The Forsa survey was conducted April 14–16 and published June 10 to align with World Play Day on June 11 and underscore children’s Article 31 right to play under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child