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Dramatic Play, Pretend Play, Imaginative Play...

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Dramatic Play, Pretend Play, Imaginative Play...

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This has always been one of my favourite! Within the classroom environment, these areas are designed primarily around the children's interests, over the years I have created:

Kitchens

Restaurants

Doctors

Schools

Construction sites

Space stations

Hairdressers

Dentists

Fire stations

Mechanic shops

Nursery

Vets

Grocery stores

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Cardboard boxes
egg cartons
blankets/sheets
art/craft materials
paper
scissors/glue
clips
blocks
dress ups, old handbags
home corner
sticks/ natural materials
huge mound of dirt
Large and small rocks
shovel

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I loved the :"How to play with a stick video" now I can't stop seeing different games in a stick every time I see one! When looking at this I might be in danger of stealing two or three towels and creating a scene from 'Pirates of the Caribbean' !
" Eye eye Captain!" I'm off to repel boards!
What do you see?
Keep on smiling
Tony

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Dramatic, imaginary, pretend, role play!

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Dramatic, imaginary, pretend, role play!

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How fun is pretend play! I'm a big fan of open ended toys and materials...
- using a a stick as a fire hose, a horse, a fairy wand, a fence, a door, a dog's bone, etc, etc...
- A rock as a phone, a frying pan, an animal/pet...

- Dress ups are so great to get into character too

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- Puppet Theatre
- shopping corner with cash registers, pretend food, money etc.
- dress ups
- medical play with a calico doll
- wooden models of medical equipment
- building tents
- open ended art and craft supplies

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Pretend play with:
- dress ups
- natural materials to make food or grocery goods to sell (sand, leaves, bark, grass)
- toy money/cash registers
- props like a wands, crowns, wigs
- toy phone/microphone
- note pads/pens (for taking orders/writing scripts)
- iPads/cameras to film role plays
- music
- an audience to perform for

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A few examples of this in my household are:
-  playing mums and babies
-  playing doctors
- playing libarians
-Playing schools
-Creating forts with many different things around the house.
-Playing shops.
- Tea parties

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Almost anything dress-up and occupations!
- Fire people
- Police
- Ambulance/paramedic
- Doctor
- Nurses
- Mummy/Daddys
- Chefs
- Builders
- Plumbers
- Electricians
- Teachers
- Princess/Princes/King/Queens
- Shop keepers
- Barristers

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My kids would imagine their bed and quilt as space station, when they suck into the cover of the quilt, they treat it as space station and have space travel...

Also, kids sometimes love to act as a parent for imitating their actions, responses...

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Adding to the list my 7yo likes having paper, textas, scissors and sticky tape accessible. She will often create or make props to add to her pretend play ie a crown, a sign, a pillow, a blanket, a doll etc.

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All you need is an imagination…

In my classroom, I’ve noticed that the younger children (especially at the beginning of the year) they tend to start in the home corner with tea sets and pretend food. Or sand or play dough. A mound of dough is a birthday cake, a sand toy is buried treasure, the ground is lava.

As the year progresses, we tend to see children taking on aspects of role play like: superhero play, mums and babies, pretending to be police officers, fire officers, doctors, vets, etc

Some of these play scenarios extend from props and planned experiences, while others stem completely from the children’s imaginations.

Erin :)