Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading ECN Radio Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Subscribe today to our bi-weekly newsletter!   ACTIVITY Setting up Camp By Julie Joy Toddlers are beginning to mimic the adults around them. Dramatic play encourages language skills and imitation. Curriculum Area Dramatic Play and Language Before You Start If you do not have many of these items send a note home to ask parents to send stuff for camping day. Remind them not to send anything that could be easily broken or is unsafe. You could even have children bring sleeping bags. Let's Begin 1. Set up a tent by spreading the blanket across two chairs or covering a table. For an outdoor tent try poking an outdoor lawn umbrella in the ground and covering it with the blanket. Or set up one of the inexpensive small tents you see at discount stores. 2. Arrange the other props around and in the tent. 3. Talk to the toddlers about what it is like to go camping. Pretend with them, as many may have never been camping before. 4. Sing a campfire song together. 5. Give them some time to explore on their own. Furthermore Play "Gone Fishing" by adding some toy or handmade fishing poles, hats, tackle boxes, nets, etc. If children bring sleeping bags, let them use them for naptime.   Large blanket Flashlights Canteens, picnic basket, bandanas, backpacks, old cameras Lincoln logs (for a pretend fire) Circus Tent and Rainbow Tunnel Bandanas - Set of 12 Compass on a String - Set of 12 Happy Car and Tractor Set Frontier Building Set - 160 Pcs. Small Gotcha Nets - Set of 6 Kindermint Blanket Fish N' Fun Articles and activities listed on this website may be printed for single use. No article or activity may be duplicated or distributed in any form, in whole or in part, without permission from the publisher, Excelligence Learning Corporation. Contact Permissions Department.

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