Provide children with wooden peg dolls for dramatic play.
The dolls can be painted or left unpainted. Wooden dolls allow children to use their imagination. This is especially true with unpainted dolls, which allow children to play and create a world that they have imagined. The unpainted dolls can become any race, gender, age or profession.
Adaptations and Extensions of Play
Use with your favourite books to promote literacy skills
Skills
Literacy skills when combined with story books
Imaginative play
Creative play
Dramatic play
Social skills
Language skills
Socioemotional skills
Empathy
Narrative skills
Retelling stories and attention to recall
Vocal skills
Tactile skills
Sequencing
Verbal skills
Listening skills
Acting out real life experiences through imaginative play
Diversity – seeing similarities and differences in the dolls to oneself and family
Turn taking and conversation skills, if playing with others
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