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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