Role Play is an important part of childhood. It enables children to use their imagination and act out what they see in their everyday life.
When working in a nursery it is common that you will find a good role play area but there is no reason why you cannot make one at home and this blog will share some ideas on how you can do this.
Hospitals, Shops, Restaurants
Easy to recreate as children will often have small tables, pretend tills, and dressing up outfits already so you can go from this.
For my example I am going to show you how you create a shop.
ideas on what you can use
- pretend tills
- plastic food, empty food packaging
- dressing up clothes
- wendy house/playhouse if you have one
Extras
- make some price labels
- posters to put over areas In your shops
- print out vocabulary posters to help children learn new words
Outdoor role play
Another popular role play area is construction and this is great for having outside in the garden.
This photo is a great way of showing you what you can do and you can source a lot of this stuff at tips.
Where to source items for role play areas
- leaflets
- menus from takeaways
- Charity shops are great for sourcing old dressing up outfits
- amazon and ebay
- asking around
- brochures from travel agents
Do your children like role play? Have you created a role play area?
