Presentation for CHD 120 at Tidewater Community College.

1. Dramatic Play Center
BY: PATRICIA TURNER

2. What is Dramatic Play?
 Dramatic play encourages children to act out roles by pretending or make believe.
In doing so, children manipulate small toys to practice their skills to help them
understand what happens in everyday life.
 Dramatic play teaches the children to practice their language skills in pretend play,
by either talking to themselves, or engaging with others.
 In dramatic play, the most important part is listening and talking, which teaches
the children to take roles as they develop stages in their play.

3. Materials
 Housekeeping Theme:
 Stove
 Refrigerator
 Sink
 Tables and chairs
 Play food (different ethnic food), play utensils (i.e. dishes, pots, etc.)
 Dress up clothes (apron, dress, pants, skirts, shoes)
 Diverse Dolls and clothes
 Ironing board

4. Materials (Cont.)
 Work Theme:
 Grocery Store:
 cash register, paper bags, pretend money, uniforms, items sold in grocery stores, grocery cart.
 Restaurant:
 Tables & chairs, menus, play money, aprons, table clothes, chef hat, hair net, play cooking
equipment, empty, condiment containers.
 Medical:
 Diverse dolls, table, stethoscope, uniforms, doctors kit, blankets, play bandages

5. Materials (Cont.)
 Fantasy Theme:
 Super hero:
 Capes, masks, different super hero uniform for boys and girls (i.e. Incredibles, Wonder Woman,
Spiderman, etc.)
 Gardening:
 Gardening tools (i.e, rake, shovel, etc.), hats, flowers, play vegetables
 Camping:
 Tent, play fire, play lantern, play canteen, backpack, chairs, flashlight

6. How many materials needed in Dramatic Play Center
Many materials are required at one time so that at least three or more children can
use at once. There should be at least three different dress up outfits and representing
both men and women. Gender specific examples of dress-up items(men clothing,
hats, and girls clothing and hats). (Page 243)

7. DIVERSITY
 Diversity refers to the differences in people with regard to race, culture, age, or
gender. (Pg. 246)
 Materials needed: Dress up clothing representing different cultures. Play cooking
and eating utensils from different cultures. Dolls representing different races,
ages, cultures. (2 examples of each materials.) (pg. 247)
 Dramatic play is an important factor in promoting cultural diversity in young
children to learn about the world around them and to learn cultural values.
Acceptance of diversity encourages children to appreciate differences in others.
This also give the children a sense of belonging.
 Culturally diversity is greater than a person’s ethnicity. It gives the children a
sense of belonging.

8. DRAMATIC PLAY SKILLS
 LEARNING POTENTIAL OF DRAMATIC PLAY
1. Dramatic play provides children opportunities to accept and assign roles, then act
them out by breaking through walls of reality and pretend to be someone or
something different from themselves. They learn to dramatize situations and
actions to go along with the roles they have chosen to play.
2. The child develop important social skills such as empathy, language development.
The child learns how to take turns, share responsibly and creatively solve
problems.
3. Accessible: Children are able to touch their materials for play. For a full day
program the children will need a minimal of 1 hour free time daily.

9. ROLES OF THE TEACHER
THE TEACHER SHOULD OBSERVE THE CHILDREN AND ENGAGE IN THERE DRAMATIC
PLAY. TEACHER’S ROLE IS TO PRETEND WITH THE CHILDREN . TEACHERS ROLE IS
TO PROVIDE FOR THE CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND SAFETY, CHECKING THE PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT SPACE AND FULLY ACCESS ALL ATMOSPHERE OF WELL BEING.

10. DOMAIN:COGNITION GENERAL
KNOWLEDGE
 Strand 3-SUB-STRAND C. ECONOMICS
 C5- Demonstrate awareness of money being needed to purchase goods and
services. (Pg. 33)
 Strategies – providing play opportunities for child to purchase things in dramatic
play. Modeling using technology constructively and responsibly in daily living.
Providing child with play materials that have economic uses for dramatic play.

11. DOMAIN: APPROACHES TO LEARNING
 Strand 4: Creativity and inventiveness
 C9- Use creativity and inventiveness to complete projects to tasks. (pg.26)
 Strategies: Encouraging child to try things in new ways. Providing props time,
space, and freedom to choose activities. Avoid competition. Using open-ended
questions and descriptive language. Asking or engaging with the child to depict
how a story may have ended differently. Play make believe games.

12. GROCERY STORE

13. DIVERSITY IN HOUSEKEEPING