School dramatic play
Ultimate List of Dramatic Play Ideas for Preschoolers
Preschoolers love to pretend! Engaging in one of these rich dramatic play ideas is the best way for children to learn and grow in preschool. At a minimum, the basic dramatic play set-up is a housekeeping center, but when it’s time for a change, try one of these creative dramatic play center ideas in the home living area of your preschool classroom.
What can children learn while engaged in dramatic play?
The list of ways that children grow and develop while engaged in rich dramatic play is infinite.
- Children develop their imaginations. They learn to be creative and think out of the box.
- Students expand their vocabularies. They engage in authentic language development— talking to each other, listening, asking questions, using words and conversation for real purposes.
- Children practice negotiating, sharing, and taking turns.
- Early learners get practical experience with sorting, classification, and organizing.
- Children increase their ability to self-regulate.
- Children expand their attention spans while they plan play activities that last increasingly longer periods of time.
Airport – Dramatic Play Center
This dramatic play scenario is complex, engaging, and oh-so-cute! It is hands-down guaranteed to be one of the students’ very favorite ways to play. The Airport is the one center that students come back years later and ask about. It’s the one that even school-aged kids will play with for hours on end. It is a blast! Click HERE for more pictures.
Baby Nursery – Dramatic Play Center
Preschoolers love to pretend to take care of babies and it such an important lesson on how to be caring, gentle and loving. The best part is, most of the supplies are probably already in your playroom.
Click HERE for more pictures and ideas.
Birthday Party – Dramatic Play Center
Is there anything better than a birthday party for no reason at all?! No, there isn’t! This Birthday Party dramatic play center is easy because children typically know how to play it. They’ve likely been to many birthday parties and may even start planning their own party months in advance. If you’re just getting started, this one is great for the first month of school.
Cookie Shop
Bakery – Dramatic Play CenterChildren can bake and sell goodies at their very own Cookie Shop. The best parts of this center are the do-it-yourself cookies and double oven! Click on the picture below to see all of the photos.
Flower Shop – Dramatic Play Center
Setting up a flower shop is the perfect dramatic play scenario for spring, Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day.
The preschoolers count and add flowers in their bouquets and practice tying bows (or knots!) with ribbon. Click HERE for more inspiration.
Grocery Store – Dramatic Play Center
Ask your preschoolers to save and bring in all of their empty recycling containers, then use them to set up a “Shop Smart” grocery store. It’s guaranteed to be one of their favorites. Click HERE for simple step-by-step directions.
Hospital – Dramatic Play Center
This classic dramatic play center is another favorite. Set up a hospital with a triage cot, doctor costumes and lots of props. No explanation is needed! This is one of the centers (like the grocery store and the restaurant) that the children are usually very familiar with. They love to be called “Doctor”! Click HERE for more pictures of the set-up.
Hot Drink Cafe – Dramatic Play Center
Warm up with a mug of hot chocolate and a fresh pastry at the “Star Drinks” hot drink cafe.
Click HERE to see lots of photo inspiration.
Ice Cream Parlor – Dramatic Play Center
Chocolate and mint ice cream with cherries on top… coming right up! Preschoolers love to scoop and sell this summer treat to their friends. Click HERE to see more pictures.
Library – Dramatic Play Center
Do your students love to reread the books that you share with them in class? Set your dramatic play area up as a Library. Allow them to “check out” books with their very own library card and return them to school the next day.
Pancake and Waffle
Cafe – Dramatic Play CenterWhat’s for breakfast?! Add the pancake and waffle sets (available HERE and HERE from Melissa & Doug) to the kitchen and fire up the grill. Children will love the custom menus and all of the toppings for their delicious breakfast.
Pizza Parlor – Dramatic Play Center
Make a brick oven from a cardboard box and a roll of “brick” wrapping paper.
Preschoolers will make pizzas, and order pizzas, and deliver pizzas, and pretend to eat pizzas ALL.DAY.LONG! Click HERE to see all the photos.
Post Office – Dramatic Play Center
Invite children to write letters to the parents or grandparents, to make cards for their classmates, and to deliver the mail at the Post Office Dramatic Play Center. Click HERE to see lots of pictures.
Restaurant – Dramatic Play Center
Can we take your order? The restaurant dramatic play center is chock full of opportunities to practice reading, writing, and teamwork. Click HERE to see the menu and order forms that are perfect for emergent readers.
Sandwich Shop – Dramatic Play Center
Switch the general restaurant into a fast-food sandwich shop. With this dramatic play idea, students will follow the menu board from left to right to choose the bread, protein, vegetables, and toppings for their very own sandwich.
Taco Stand – Dramatic Play Center
Would you like a taco or a burrito from this very popular Taco Stand? Preschoolers will take your order then create the taco or burrito of your choice. What a way to “spice” up the dramatic play center!
Vet Clinic – Dramatic Play Center
While you’re learning about zoo animals, pets, or even the farm, this dramatic play Vet Clinic is a great way to engage children in pretend play. They will care for the animals and become veterinarians, x-ray technicians, and nurses.
Fairy Tale Plays – Theater Dramatic Play Idea
Transformed trifold science boards into a straw house, a stick house and a brick house for an adorable version of the Three Little Pigs. Preschoolers who can memorize and act out stories will have great comprehension skills when they get to school. It’s also fun act out Goldilocks and the Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Fountain Drink Machine – Prop for Dramatic Play
Whether you’re setting up a plain restaurant, a pizza parlor, an ice cream shop, or a taco stand, here’s a surefire FUN way to spice it up. Add a drink machine! You can use a box or a bookshelf with just a few simple additions (paper cups and tissue paper) to make it extraordinary. Click HERE for more details.
Window Washer – Dramatic Play Idea
If you’re looking for a quick set-up, cheap center, this is it! Get all the supplies from the dollar store and added water. It’s great for summer, too. Take those kids outside and put them to work! Sometimes the best dramatic play ideas are the simplest.
Dinosaur Dig Site – Dramatic Play Center
Put on paleontology hats and look for dinosaur bones and footprints at this dramatic play dig site. Click HERE to see how to use a simple ingredient from the craft store to turn the sensory table into an excavation site.
Do your kids like to pretend or role play? What is your favorite way to set it up? Whatever it is, have tons of fun playing and learning with your children today.
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Magic School Dramatic Play - Fairy Poppins
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This dramatic play center features a “Magic School” for pretend wizards and witches.
It’s a perfect addition to Halloween activities, but can be used all year round too. It’s suitable for kids in Pre-K, Kindergarten and First Grade. Although I’m sure many older students (and adults) will enjoy playing in this area too. 😊
I’m so excited about this new pack! There are three main areas including a Potions Lab, Critter Care and Library. To create these centers you’ll need some basic Halloween decorations and few other materials such as bug figurines.
Potions Lab
With the potions lab, I decided to make pretend potions rather than use actual liquids, so that the kids could play indoors. To make the potions I added a few strips of colored cellophane inside some empty plastic bottles. Then I attached the labels. I also found some readily available craft materials to use as additional ingredients such as feathers, colored balls and flowers.
Once you’ve got your potions lab set up, the kids can follow the spell book and then mix up their potions in a witch’s cauldron.
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Critter Care
I really love this area, it’s a bit like a science lab for wizards! To make it you’ll need some bug figurines and clear containers. I found most of mine at discount stores. Around Halloween time, you can often find creepy crawly toys for a very reasonable price. I’ve made a variety of labels, so you can choose a few to use based on the resources that you have available.
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Wizard Library
This is such a fun area to set up in your reading corner. It helps kids learn about all the things related to the world of witches and wizards.
There are a few different book bin labels which give suggestions on the types of books you can choose for students. For example, you might head to the library and take out a pile of books on monsters or bugs. I just grabbed a few books I had such as “Owl Babies” and “Room on the Broom”.
You can create a more “Magic School” feel by adding a few props to your area such as cobwebs, a Jack-o-Lantern or candles. I made some pretend candles out of some cardboard rolls and crepe paper.
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Math and Literacy Fun
I created a few extra math and literacy activities in this dramatic play pack. These include some simple spelling and counting activities, such as the one shown below.
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More Fun Activities for Magic School Students
Kids can also have fun gazing into the crystal ball or pretending to read tea leaves. I’ve made some printable instruction books for them to look at so they know what to do. To make the crystal ball I just wrapped some silver foil around a large foam ball. To set up the tea leaf reading activity, I just grabbed a toy tea set with a teapot and tea cup.
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More Info
You can learn more about all of the printables and activities included in this pack here.
School mess, or Tick-tock, performance reviews, staging Volzhsky Drama Theatre, Volzhsky - Afisha-Theaters
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Schoolchildren put on a performance based on "Alien", everything looks clumsy, but very cool
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Staging performances based on famous films is quite a thankless task. The audience will be unhappy anyway, because a) you can never beat the original and b) you can't recreate all those incredible special effects on stage. However, students from a school in northern Bergen, New Jersey, USA, managed to perform a real miracle. The schoolchildren put on a performance based on Alien, and although it looked clumsy, it still turned out super cool.
The school drama club turned the 1979 movie "Alien" into a school play
As soon as the news about the production of "Alien" began to appear on the Internet, users were already ready to go to it.
And when the first photographs began to appear, everyone here literally fell on their ears.
The play even has its own trailer
Admission to the play was only $5.
Everyone was not only surprised by the school club's decision to stage the 1979 movie, but also by the quality of the props.
As it turned out, the xenomorph costume, like the other costumes in the play, was made from recycled materials. Art director and teacher Stephen Defendini often sorts through trash to turn someone's waste into impressive art.
Looks very realistic
The use of waste for decorations is due not so much to the desire to reuse materials as to lack of funding.
A few years ago, the school's funding was cut, so amateur actors had to look for other means to stage their play.
There was also a very cool scene in the performance, with the appearance of a facehugger from an alien egg
After all, this is where it all started.
A piece of that epic scene
A parent filmed the facehugger scene. pic.twitter.com/oamxaxikM2
— Paul Owens (@oh_pollo) March 23, 2019
Justin Pearson, one of the schoolchildren involved in the play, said that one of the assistants sat in the egg, who then threw a facehugger at the actor playing Kane.
Closer look at the astronaut's helmet
The scoundrel hid
So why did they choose to play Alien?
"I think the idea came about after the teacher in charge of all the shows, Mr. Cuervo, saw a failed 40th anniversary production of Alien"? Justin Pearson said.
Looking at the performance, many thought that the students were rich, but this is not so.
