| Prop Boxes |
| Include the following collections of objects and materials for children to create, discover, and use for imaginary play. Store collections in boxes or baskets to be accessible at any time (indoors or outdoors) for children to enhance their dramatic play. L Laundry: doll clothes, doll blankets, and dress-up clothes, tubs of warm, soapy, water and a tub of rinse water, laundry baskets, a clothesline and clothespins. Set up a desk with pads and pencils to check clothing into a pretend laundromat. Library: Tape Recorder/Player with Earphones, HomeMade Books, HomeMade Recorded Stories, Stuffed Animals, Environmental Print Pictures And Posters, Alphabet Posters, Poetry and Rebus Posters, Felt Board and Pieces, Puppets, Make Believe Reading Glasses, Stamps for marking books, A wide variety of children's books (add pockets), cards for books, a wide variety of magazines (with pockets), Bookmarks, Pencils, pens, and markers, Paper, A sign- in/sign-out sheet, Stickers, ABC index cards, File folders, Posters of children's books, Telephone, telephone book, calendars of various types, library cards, book bag, sign - "quiet please", library catalogues, Beyond the Box: Extend the prop box into a Dramatic Play Centre by adding the following materials: pillowa, comfy chairs, puppet stage, floor and/or soft reading light, library book return carts, Light and Reflection Add these materials to capture and demonstrate light. old CD discs (reflective back), prisms, coloured celophane, mirrors, sparkly objects, coloured water in plastic pop bottle, display coloured glass in windows, suncatchers, books on lightning bugs (or fireflys), opaque glass, flashlight and white bedsheet for shadow theatre, binoculars, cellophane on windows, cellophane on paper tubes, marbles, microscope, kaledoscope, magnifine glass, several clear plastic containers, condiment containers, food colouring, sunglasses, aluminum foil, optical illusions Little Red Riding Hood: (UPDATED 2007) storybook, dress, red cape, basket, grey jumpsuit, ears glued to headband, grandma dress, play food, blanket, cap and glasses for "grandma", flannelette shirt, cardboard axe, finger puppet characters with small cardboard house, |
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