Preschoolers are creating menu!

This week, our preschool children created a menu for a pretend restaurant during a literacy-rich dramatic play activity.
To support their success, we pre-cut food pictures from magazines, and children selected the pictures and named each menu item as it was added to the menu. Together, we talked about restaurants, menus, and how we know what to order.
Children helped choose a restaurant name and observed as it was written, learning that names begin with an uppercase letter. As menu items were added, children identified familiar letters and sounds and helped glue pictures in place. This activity supported language development, early literacy, environmental print awareness, creativity, and cooperative play. The completed menu was placed in the pretend-and-learning center for continued use in imaginative play.