MAGINATIVE PLAY ICE CREAM SHOP

BY JANICE DAVIS

Welcome to our Ice Cream Shop!!

The fun and joy of exploring the imaginary world of an ice cream shop.

Today I am sharing some ideas for setting up an imaginative play ice cream shop. My girls had so much fun with this (and Dad) and took part in adding their own ideas of what they thought an Ice Cream Shop should have.

SETTING UP:

Kids have a great imagination and really don’t mind what props they use for their imaginative play, as they will improvise and pretend one object to be something else. For our ice cream shop we used a book shelf covered with a sheet as the serving counter, a table in the restaurant for eating the ice cream, pretend money, pompoms for pretend ice cream, small serving spoons, patty pans to imitate ice cream cups and a little cash register.

You can’t have an ice cream shop without an ice cream stand! We used a small box covered with plain paper to make the stand. I carefully pressed 6 holes into the box with scissors, twisting to make the holes bigger. We then neatened up the holes by folding sticky tape over the rough edges as seen in the photo.

To make the ice cream cones we folded brown paper into cone shapes and sticky taped it together. The large pompoms are great for pretend ice cream but you can alternatively use scrunched up crepe or tissue paper.

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