Dramatic Play

Dramatic Play

•Use puppets to act out favorite stories.

•Build a pillow fort or blanket tent or have a tea party or picnic in your living room. Invite stuffed animals or Facetime friends to make it more of a party.

•Combine building toys with dolls or little people to enrich the play and expand language. For example, use legos or blocks to build a barn for your farm animals or school for your dolls.

•Form a band using household objects like pots, laundry baskets, empty water bottles or wooden spoons as instruments. Ask your child to teach you songs or nursery rhymes they have learned at school.

•Create a toy car garage or a tunnel from a shipping box by flipping over the box and cutting out large holes from the bottom (for entry and exit of cars). You can work on prepositions by modeling in, out, top, bottom. Have your child decorate the box.