Dramatic play themes

Dramatic play centers are a huge hit in preschool. They also student to learn through play, use their imagination and creativity, and take a hands-on approach to learning. These dramatic play ideas for preschoolers help students with their language development and expand their vocabularies. They also help students learn how to self-regulate, share, and take turns with friends. Find grocery store dramatic play, airport dramatic play, and baby nursery dramatic play.

The ultimate list of dramatic play ideas for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. Flower shop, pizza shop, doctor's office and many more!

Cars, trucks, planes, trains, and more - many preschoolers love the topic of transportation. These fun ideas will get preschoolers thinking about the ways we move!

Transform the dramatic play center into a BEACH for a summer theme, ocean theme or a beach theme! Your students will LOVE to play at the pretend beach, and you will love it because you can sneak in tons of literacy, math and STEM learning opportunities! Learning through play is powerful! Grab your lesson planner because I'm going to give you tons of ideas for your pretend beach.

Change the dramatic play into a theater for a fairy tale theme or reading week! What better way to celebrate reading than acting out some of their favorite books! Plus, students are now retelling books, which develops their book knowledge, book skills, reading comprehension, fluency, and LOVE of reading!

This Donut Shop Dramatic Play center will satisfy even the biggest sweet tooth! It's perfect for budding preschool chefs-in-training and will keep the students coming back for more.

Pizza is a favorite food for many preschoolers. Setting up a pizza parlor in your learning space is a great way for preschoolers to develop important math, literacy, and social skills while having fun!

This zoo dramatic play center includes an invitation to build zoo animal habitats! Use natural materials to make the animal enclosures for lions, zebras, penguins, gorillas, and more. These habitat activities for kids will get them learning about where animals live during your zookeeper dramatic play.