Play Pretend: Restaurant

With your child, make a list of all the supplies you’ll need to run a restaurant.

Gather restaurant props (aprons, plastic spoons, forks, cups, plates, trays, play money, cash register, pots and pans, small pads of paper, pencils, tables, chairs, and placemats).

Have your child make menus by cutting food pictures out of magazines or supermarket flyers and gluing them on cardboard. They can also make food out of clay.

Discuss what you might hear in a restaurant: “May I take your order?” “ This is delicious!” “ Thank you!” “Come again!”

Take turns role-playing customers, waiters (taking orders by writing or drawing), cooks, and cashiers.