Many of you have already heard that my goal for this year has been to create many "prop boxes" that will be rotated in our dramatic play area. I want to change the environment from just a play house area to a ice cream shop, post office, camping site, doctor's office, etc. I want to enrich the children's vocabulary with a print rich environment and real life situations that they can act out.
One of our new prop boxes is our "Birthday Box!" We will plan to take these items out each time a child in the preschool celebrates their birthday. This month was J's 4th birthday!
The table setting includes all birthday plates, napkins, cups, and party hats...
A GIANT "Happy Birthday" sign...
Pretend presents, and a dancing/singing birthday bear...
We almost always order pizza for each birthday, so we have a wooden pizza set and a birthday cake set...
Of course a birthday wouldn't be complete without balloons...
Time to play!!!
J was getting showered with imaginary gifts!
The kids loved stuffing the presents with anything they could find...
What a cutie pie! J requested cake for his birthday, so I made a yummy chocolate caramel cake with whipped cream topping and health bits...
I ended up buying this set of counting cakes later on to add to our prop box...
We played with it right away, and then packed it away for our next birthday!
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