Natalie Grebe Pretend Play. Dramatic Play. Likely these are some of the first terms you encountered when learning to teach in a childcare setting. Children pretending, acting, and vocalizing the world around them is certainly not a recent concept. What has changed however, is how we as early childhood teachers can support this type of...Read More

By Stefanie Camoni Preschool children love to pretend. They pretend to be police officers, fast food workers, moms, dads, even puppies and anyone or anything they have encountered, watched on TV, or read about in a book. Therefore, it is important to fill the dramatic play center with props and materials that allow children to...Read More

Kelli Harris When I was in graduate school, one of my assignments was to create a prop box, and my mind automatically went to the dramatic play area in my classroom. Prop boxes are a wonderful way to enhance and change the themes in our dramatic play areas. But this assignment was not for the...Read More