All the DAZE Productions: Prop Boxes - Themes that begin with "L"

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.

Click Here for Alphabetical Prop Box Directory

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, Home-made Books, Home-made 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:
pillows, 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 such as: old CD discs (reflective back), prisms,
coloured cellophane, mirrors, sparkly objects, coloured water in plastic pop bottle, display coloured
glass in windows, sun catchers, books on lightning bugs (or fire flys), opaque glass, flashlight and white
bed sheet for shadow theatre, binoculars, cellophane on windows, cellophane on paper tubes, marbles,
microscope, kaleidoscope, magnifying glass, several clear plastic containers, condiment containers,
food colouring, sunglasses, aluminum foil, optical illusions

Little Red Riding Hood
storybook, dress, red cape, basket, grey jumpsuit, ears glued to headband, grandma dress, play food,
blanket, cap and glasses for "grandma", flannelet shirt, cardboard axe, finger puppet characters with
small cardboard house,