Bin 7: Dramatic Play
Let your child’s imagination take center stage. This puppet theater set features an interchangeable sign with one side as a blackboard to promote the show, a clock, and curtains for a realistic theatrical experience! Children can play as people or animals cultivating creativity by performing puppet shows, singing, and story-telling. Additionally, this bin is also packed with 14 sets of satin superhero capes and felt masks for dramatic play. Promote self confidence, social and cognitive skills, resilience, and more!
Early Learning Standards Met:
North Dakota - Creative Arts, Language, Communication, & Literacy, Social, and Emotional Development.
Minnesota - Creativity and the Arts, Language, Literacy and Communications, Social and Emotional Development, and Approaches to Learning.
Do Together
Ideas for how to use this bin:
- Use the puppets to learn the names of feelings, and/or talk about how you are feeling
- Act out a story using puppets and narrate what the puppet is doing
- After reading a story, take turns reenacting scenes from it
- Write and put on a puppet show for friends and family
Watch or Play Together
Use this media connection to spark interest, model skills and approaches, or explore a concept:
- "The Three Little Pigs" Puppet Show | Circle Time at Home (Video 3:29)
- What are Puppets? | Young Explorers (Video 1:50)
- Trickster Tales | Arts After School (Video 6:50)
Talk and Wonder Together
Maximize learning using these prompts during or after the activities:
- How is the puppet feeling? How could you show that?
- How could someone help the puppet feel better?
- What is your puppet doing?
- How many characters are in this story? Who are the main characters?
- What happens in this story? How does it begin, what happens next, how does it end?
- What was your favorite part of the story?
- How would you change the story?
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