Materials
- food magazines and grocery store inserts
- scissors
- cardboard or oak tag
- glue
- pens and pencils
- number stickers or price stickers (if available)
Instructions
- Encourage the children to cut out pictures of foods from magazines or inserts.
- When they have cut out a few pictures, they can glue them to one side of a piece of oak tag or cardboard.
- Encourage them to write the name of the food and the price next to each picture (help them as needed). Children can use number or price stickers if desired.
- Children can use their menus in restaurant dramatic play.
Instructions
1. Set up an area of the classroom to resemble a hospital. Put the above
materials in the area.
2. Encourage the children to pretend to be doctors, nurses, and patients. Be
sure to mention that boys and girls can grow up to be either doctors or
nurses.
3. Read books about visiting a hospital.
4. Include a list of vocabulary words in this center, such as doctor, nurse, sick,
healthy, stethoscope, bandage, x-ray, and bones.
