Does your preschooler love to identify every object in sight? How about fruits and vegetables? Today I will be sharing with you our Farmer’s Market Preschool Theme Pretend Play activity that I did with my son, C. He loves to identify things he knows and he let’s you know that he understands. How do you ask? If he feels that you are not listening, he will come up to your face and grab it and say the words again to ensure that you are giving him 100% of your attention. I chose to play farmer’s market with my kids and I especially chose to work on vocabulary.
To play all you really need are a few things that you probably already have on hand.
- fruits and vegetables (real or fake)
- 3 part cards (scroll to the bottom of the page)
- imagination
HOW TO PLAY
FIRST you want to start by choosing what fruits and vegetables you want to focus on. If you don’t have any fake fruits and vegetables, simply use real ones!
SECOND, identify the fruits and vegetables that you have in front of you.
THIRD pretend to be buying an item from the farmer’s market.
FOURTH start matching up the fruits with the 3-part cards. Also see if they can find the matching fruit for each 3 part card that you use.
How much are the bananas? May I have some bananas please?
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Here are some more pretend play ideas from the #teachECE team
Bakery Pretend Play Printables for Counting by Life Over C’s
Pretend Play in Preschool: How to be a Scientist! by The Preschool Toolbox Blog
Pretend Play: Amazon Fulfillment Center by Growing Book by Book
Pretend Play Fishing Alphabet Activity by Mom Inspired Life
Detective Pretend Play by Capri + 3
Exploring Numbers 0-10 Pretend Garden Meal by Tiny Tots Adventures
DIY Farm Pretend Play Mat by The Educators’ Spin On It
Monster Truck Pretend Play from Munchkins and Mom
My kids love to play market! Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert is a fun book to have in the pretend play area too.
I should see if our library has that book. Thanks Jodie!
What a fun pretend play scenario. Our kids would really enjoy this. Thank you for the inspiration!
My kids were just playing market! It’s a great real-life activity for them to prretend!
We have so much play food to do this with! What a great way to develop vocabulary, too!