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Doggy Day Care
Create a new theme for your Dramatic Play Center based on a community
helper that takes care of dogs while the family is at work.
Collect a wide variety of stuffed dogs in all sizes.
Add toy dogs and other props to your center, such as small plastic bowls,
hairbrushes, small plastic dog bones, small balls, and a plastic dishpan with
cotton balls for pretend bubbles.
Invite the children to pretend they are “feeding” a doggy from the small
plastic bowls.
Children can “give the doggy a bath” in the plastic dishpan.
They can “brush or groom” the doggy with hairbrushes.
Toy doggies can be “walked” and “have playtime” chasing the small balls and
barking with the other doggies!
Where Can It Be?
Gather a small group on the rug to read Where Can it Be? by Ann Jonas.
This book tells about a child who looks all over the house for her missing
blanket.
As you turn each page, invite one of the children to lift the flap to see what
is behind the closed doors.
Play a hide and seek game with your group.
Tell them you have taken a blanket from the doll’s bed in the Dramatic Play
Center and hidden it somewhere in the classroom.
Ask them, “Where can it be? Let’s look under the easel.”
Lead them to the easel and bend down to look under.
Ask, “Is it on the book rack?” Let the children lead you to the book rack and
look on top.
Go to different areas of the classroom, using location words such as over, under,
inside, and next to.
When children locate the missing doll’s blanket, clap and say, “We found it under
the beanbag (or wherever it was hidden)!”