Camping Dramatic Play Center : props, signs, ideas, creative fun!!!

Your happy campers are going to LOVE “camping” at their very own "Happy Camper Campground!" ❤️⛺

You may want to add a few props (just things you already have around your classroom or home... or cheap things you can grab from the dollar store), but most of what you’ll need is right here in this resource!

ALL THE INTERESTING DETAILS

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This resource includes over 100 pages of print-and-go awesomeness:

⛺Detailed Instructions about how to SIMPLY gather the props you need using what you already have in class, printed from this resource, or from around home (for example: You don't NEED a fancy tent taking up tons of space in your classroom! Happy campers LOVE making their own tents with some fabric or old flat sheets draped over your desks or tables like a good old fashioned fort! Free for you and easy for kids to clean up.).

⛺An Open/Closed Sign kids can flip back and forth

⛺Colorful Signs to welcome campers to the “Happy Camper Campground” in both full page and poster-sized options

⛺Colorful half-pages signs directing campers to the fire and fishing

⛺Blank “Happy Camper Campground” Maps so kids can sketch the layout of their campground

⛺A Happy Camper “To Do” List so campers always have ideas on what their options are: sing and tell stories around the campfire, go bird watching, make s'mores, hunt for animal tracks, go on a hike, go fishing, look for butterflies or bugs, and much more!

⛺Printable Fish in several easy-to-cut (rectangular) options: cute and plain, letters (each side of the fish has a capital or lowercase letter on it A-Z), and numbers (1-9).

⛺Half-page Recording Sheets to go along with the fishing. Kids can write down what they caught.

⛺3 sets of 8 Unique Animal Tracks: Kids search for the tracks and match them up to full-color animal pictures to see who the tracks belong to. If you want them to get some writing practice, there are 3 differentiated recording sheets where kids can write the name of the animal the track matches up with OR simply circle the name of the animal. It also comes with an answer sheet (so it can be self-checking) to go along with each set of tracks. I recommend doing each set of tracks for a week or few days and then switching things out to the next set to keep the activity fresh and fun!

⛺All Kinds of Cool Critters to print and put up around camp so kids can go bird watching, or searching for butterflies and bugs. Three unique sets you could switch up from week to week: ✅16 beautiful birds, ✅16 cute bugs, and ✅8 amazing butterflies. Each set comes with it’s own checklist so kids can check off the critters as they find them in camp.

⛺28 Labels to label everything in the camp, create props, and show kids where to put things away when they’re done. You campground will be PRINT RICH and the labels are also useful for organization.

⛺Printable Props like marshmallows, s'mores, crackers, chocolate, lanterns, flashlights, sunscreen, and bug spray. A couple props are ready to print BIG so they can take up more than one page and give you extra large trees or a big, toasty campfire.

You kids are going to LOOOOVE this! ❤️

Be sure to check out other fun dramatic play resources in my store, too! You can even grab them all (and get every upcoming dramatic play kit for FREE!) if you buy the BUNDLE! (Click to check it out!)