DRAMATIC PLAY

Dramatic Play is any play where kids create assigned roles and act out scenarios. This program is designed for children aged 3-9 and their caregivers to explore together.

Join a Library Volunteer at this program that helps develop social, emotional, and cognitive skills, including communication, empathy, creativity, and problem-solving. Children engage in dramatic play by taking on roles, like being a doctor or a baker, and acting out situations they have experienced or observed.

Not only does dramatic play support creativity and self-expression, but it also helps children practice social and life skills.

Here is a list of ideas you can act out together in this dramatic play program:

Explore featured books, which we encourage you to check out.
Dress up like a Community Helper.
Model being a doctor while utilizing medical equipment to perform an exam.
Demonstrate how to create Mail or deliver letters with our mailbox.
Discover how to be a dentist by exploring dental instruments on a model mouth.
Tinker and construct/deconstruct a small wooden toy at one of the workbenches.
Apply personal experience to be a grocery clerk; ring up and bag groceries, check out customers, practice counting items, and explore pretend money.
Use the pretend food and the Kitchen set to cook a meal and set the table. Also, utilize toy knives to cut up special Velcro play food items.
Explore the dollhouse and assign the rooms, decorate the rooms with the proper furniture, or name the characters in the dollhouse.
Manipulate small animals and pretend to be at the zoo or be a wild dinosaur.
Pretend to be an artist and create a picture on the art easel.
Act out a show with the puppets.

If you have any questions, please contact Nicole Rader at nrader@jvbrown.edu

This program is one of the many ways Pennsylvania Public Libraries supports the PA Forward Initiative by providing civic, social, and basic literacy opportunities for learning.

** NOTE: Please be advised that photographs may be taken at this event/program for use on the James V. Brown Library website and in the press, Brown Library marketing materials, and other library publications. By registering for or attending this event, you consent to the library photographing and using your image and likeness. No names will be used. If you do not want your photograph taken, you may still register or attend the event, but please be sure to let the person in charge know. **