ATTENTION!!! Calling all preschool grocery shoppers!!! This Grocery Store pretend play area will help encourage, inspire, and raise your students' level of imagination. It is filled with a variety of fun play based learning ideas, instructions, and pictures of how to set up your pretend marketplace area.

This download includes:

• A suggested list of props and materials
• Pics of dramatic play center Setup (classroom decor examples on how to set up your pretend play area)
• Bulletin board display (how to make a creative bulletin board grocery store list)
• How to create a grocery freezer
• Creating pretend play props ( checkout scanner, money, cashier checkout screen)
• Pics of prop setup
• Dramatic play Grocery Store in Action (pictures of ideas on how to play in your play area)
• Labels with and without words
• Roleplay necklaces (cashier, stocker, shopper)
• Signs (Open/Closed, Hours of Operation, freezer printout, Produce section pictures, Money, Shopping list, food picture cards, grocery sale ad signs, cashier checkout screen sign)
• Picture Cards of Grocery Store Vocab words
• Grocery Store dramatic play printables (receipts, grocery checklists, “what to buy at the grocery store”)
• Craft ideas (Food portrait painting)

This creative grocery store dramatic play theme is best used to help your students:

• Use their imagination freely
• with language development
• Learn and practice their social interaction skills
• Practice communication skills
• Practice using and understanding symbols
• Practice math skills
• Practice literacy skills
• Develop their fine motor skills

This structured play resource was created primarily for Preschool, Pre-K, Kindergarten classrooms, and Homeschool. And the best part for your students is that..... it doesn't feel like learning.

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