Dramatic Play Bakery Fun at Trinity Preschool

In all of our classrooms during the month of December we set up our dramatic corners at bakery centers. We tend to not put an overemphasis on holidays at our school, we don't use holidays as our main theme or focus, so for us, having a bakery is a good way to tie in Christmas. 

One of our classrooms uses this store front type of set up , but the other two rooms use a puppet theater as the bakery store front.
We give the children some props for baking as well as for running the bakery store and taking orders for food.

Closer view of items we have in our bakery.

We have a "window" in our bakery too.  

We make each of the children their own baker's hats using paper, and a good quality paper napkin or paper towel as the top.  We add their name too.  These are a huge hit!

We have an assortment of store bought and homemade items for our bakeries.  We have donuts made from socks, flannel shaped cookies, and later the children will make salt dough cookies too. 

Close up view of the donuts made from socks.

Trinity Preschool Activities for Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Stay & Play:   

We read Edwina- The Dinosaur who didn't know she was extinct" by Mo Williams

We did painting with liquid soap and powder paint mixed together on black paper.  It has an oil painting look.

We did the freeze dance using ribbons, face the facts and touch.  We had some under the sea fun too.

Willow Room:

We read "All together now: by Anita Jeram was our story today.  We talked about the flowers and asked the children if they have flowers by their house.

We did a cute rhyme song about kites, called 5 little kites

We used tissue paper and starch to make collage pictures. We worked on our Mother's Day gifts.

We did Jump Jim Joe, and Sammy for music.  We also practiced the songs we will sing for Mother's Day.

We have a flower shop set up in our dramatic corner.

Maple Room:

We read "The crunching Munching caterpillar" by Sheridan Cain

We worked on our Mother's Day present for art.

We had flower shapes at the easel with paint.

We did The April Song, and practiced our songs for Mother's Day.

We did letter W activities and read the book "Pete's a pizza"

We are having fun with our pizza restaurant in our dramatic corner.

Oak Room:

We read two books today "Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni and "The magic school bus and the shark adventure"

We are done with the alphabet, so now we are working on numbers, we wrote the number 1, and wrote "one" and made one dot.  

For music we did Little fish, baby beluga, and Join in the game today.

We had plastic fish in the estimating jar.

We used sponges, we used different type of sponges and different kinds of sponges into water and squeezed the water out to see how much different sponges would hold. 

Preschool Dramatic Play- Library fun

In our Pre-k room, the dramatic corner has been changed into a library. We have books the children sort into the right spots, a computer keyboard, stampers and paper, and each child has their own library card which the children sort into a filing system alphabetically. They check out books, write their name that they checked out a book and return them too. Each child got to come into the office to borrow a book for their class library. They said the topic they wanted and the teachers helped them find a book.

Preschool Dramatic Play Post Office

We have purchase some cute accessories for our dramatic play post office and we have made many. One of the teachers made cut postal worker vests the children can wear as well.

We expand on these as well, with sorting activities, putting ABC on bins and alphabet letters on envelopes. You can sometimes get old envelopes from a card store and we save junk mail too. Great way to recycle old mail. We also do some patterning activities, the children have to match the pattern on the envelope to the correct mailbox. We put out pencils, paper, and stampers too.

Willow Room Pizza Kitchen

Willow Pizza Dramatic Corner Fun


Our dramatic corner was transformed into our very own pizza kitchen. We made pizza ovens, cut up felt to make pretend pizzas, and we set up a counter with registers and order taking materials. We have fun aprons and checkered table cloths too. After we played in here, we made our own pizza for snack too.