Nursery World - Enabling environments birth to Threes: Role up!

Let the children take on a new identity with fun dressing-up activities from Alice Sharp.

WHAT YOU NEED

A range of glasses - children's, adults' and toy varieties, ideally in modern and old-fashioned designs; large container, such as a hat box, old suitcase, gift box, canvas bag or wooden drawer

POSSIBLE LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Grasp meaning from context

- Use language as a means of sharing feelings, experiences and thoughts

- Pretend that one object represents another

- Begin to make-believe by pretending

PLAYING THE GAME

- Place all the glasses in the container, present them to the children and let them try on the different pairs. Show your interest by exclaiming, 'You look cool/different!' and so on.

- As their play develops, ask the children who they are pretending to be - a superhero? - and ask appropriate questions about the roles that they have taken on - 'What's your name? What powers do you have?'

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