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Restaurant
Create a pretend eating establishment
Materials
- cardboard
- child-safe scissors
- clay
- glue
- magazines or supermarket flyers
- marker
- paper
- restaurant props (see below)
Directions
Young children love to engage in pretend play of real-life occupations. Help your children create their very own restaurant.
- Brainstorm: Together, make a list of all the supplies you'll need to run an efficient eating establishment.
- Set up: Gather restaurant props (e.g., aprons, plastic spoons, forks, cups, plates, trays, play money, cash register, pots and pans, small pads of paper, pencils, tables, chairs, and placemats). Children can make menus by cutting food pictures out of magazines or supermarket flyers and gluing them on cardboard. They can also make food out of clay.
- Role-play: Discuss what you might hear in a restaurant: May I take your order? This is delicious! Thank you! Come again! Take turns role-playing customers, waiters and waitresses (taking orders by writing or drawing), cooks, and cashiers.
Take It Further
Provide children with ingredients for a "burger" snack. Try rice cakes and apple butter, or round pieces of bread (use a cookie cutter) and jam. (As always, be aware of food allergies.)
Based on an activity in Play and Learn with Arthur, Volume 2
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