• 1.

  Explore community services. Walk to a neighborhood post office. Go to a library story hour. Introduce people and places.

• 2.

  Blocks and boxes naturally enhance children’s creative play. As part of a community helpers theme, children create fire, police, and gas stations; hospitals and clinics; libraries; schools; and other familiar buildings.

• 3.

  Community helper props in pretend play encourage children to try new roles.

• 4.

  Choose a job or building in your neighborhood that fascinates you.

• 5.

  On a large index card, draw the person or place, or write its name with Crayola® Washable Markers and Multicultural Markers. Make more than one card if you like.

• 6.

  With a Crayola® Glue Stick, attach your card to the end of a recycled cardboard shoe box or other small box.

• 7.

  Play with your building or person in the blocks area. Construct a village with friends and their boxes. What vehicles help people do their jobs? (fire trucks, bookmobile, buses)

Standards

• Letters, Numbers & Words
• Talking
• Vocabulary
• Physical: Balance
• Physical: Eye - Hand Coordination
• Physical: Large Motor
• Social & Emotional: Making Friends
• Social & Emotional: Pretend Play
• Thinking: Creating
• Thinking: Observing
• Thinking: Understanding Concepts