Children up to the age of five spend 1,300 hours – more than 54 full days – playing with their parents during these early years of their life, with 100 hours spent playing hide-and-seek, and another 95 hours playing peek-a-boo.
Almost 45 minutes a day, or 260 hours each year, is spent engaging in playtime over a child's first half a decade, according to a poll of 1,000 parents with children aged up to five.
The most common type of play is imaginative play, taking up 43.5 minutes a week, or 187.5 hours over five years – followed by parents reading to their children for 42.5 minutes weekly, or 185 hours in five years.
