RESOURCES FOR PLAY

Purchased Accessories
Rubber, plastic, or wooden animals
Traffic signs
Vehicles of all kinds
Rubber, plastic, or wooden people
Small cubes or other blocks to decorate
Small doll houses
Popsicle sticks for signs and fences
Tongue depressors
Easter grass
Pipe cleaners (chenille sticks)
Wooden beads for decoration
Doll house furniture

Free and Found Accessories
Cardboard pieces for roofs
Boxes to make into buildings
Tile, vinyl, or parquetry flooring samples
Carpet samples
Pictures of buildings, bridges, cities, farms, etc.
Strawberry baskets
Styrofoam trays
Fabric swatches for tents, curtains, bedspreads
Thread spools
Yarn or string for cables or fences
Film canisters for towers
Countertop samples
Wallpaper samples
Cardboard tubes from paper towels
Plastic lids
Foil or cellophane

Dress-Up Clothes
Dress-up clothes add excitement to the block area. A construction hat, fire helmet, or engineer’s cap can enrich play and link the block area to curriculum themes. Dress-up clothes invite the children to engage in dramatic play using the blocks.

Posters and Pictures
Large pictures and posters can stimulate play ideas. A large picture of a highway construction site may suggest ideas about road building. A poster of a family shopping for groceries might suggest building a grocery store.

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