Coffee Shop Dramatic Play for Homeschool

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A little girl is kneeling in front of a coffee shop dramatic play area pouring a cup of coffee from a coffee pot. There are tea pots, milk jugs, sugar, and another coffee cup on the shelf in front of her with the coffee machine.

This week we created a Coffee Shop Dramatic Play area in our play room. C loves different types of dramatic play and it is a great way to teach vocabulary, social skills, pre-writing skills, counting, pre-reading skills, etc. I had do a coffee shop in my classroom when I taught, but just had hand made signs and such. For C, I made them all printable so it would be easy to create and keep for the future.

C loves to make tea with her teapots and always tells us that she drinks tea instead of coffee because she is little. I knew that she would love this dramatic play set because there was a real coffee pot as well as real coffee cups. I held onto some jugs of milk and sugar boxes we had from our grocery store dramatic play area (check it out here) and added those as well.

A little girl is pouring pretend milk from a small jug into an orange and blue coffee cup.
The coffee cup is sitting on a yellow table. Hanging from the little girl's neck is a lanyard with a tag on it that shows that she is a barista in a coffee shop dramatic play area.

She loves it!! We have drank so much coffee together it is crazy!! One day she brought her coffee upstairs and sat in her chair and told us she was gonna drink her coffee while she watches the news.

A little girl is sitting in a child's chair pretending to drink coffee from the orange and blue coffee mug from the coffee shop dramatic play area mentioned above while watching tv.

This dramatic play packet will also be great for the little ones. D loves to make coffee as well. So we let him pour pretend coffee all day. He loves to blow it off because we remind him all the time that coffee is hot!

A toddler boy is pretending to make coffee in a coffee machine. He is not using a coffee pot though, but he put an orange and blue coffee cup where the pot would go. In the background, hangs the sign of the Coffee Shop dramatic play area.

Learning Extensions with a Coffee Shop Dramatic Play Area

Setting up a table- add decorations and teach the proper way to set a table
How to act in a coffee shop- the whole experience can be a teaching tool so that your child can go to a real coffee shop with no problem!
Value of the dollar- what can you actually get for the money you have? Give your child a set amount of money and see what they can buy. Let your child have as much money as they want and see the difference.
Table Manners- use this time to teach your child (and demonstrate) good table manners
Cooperation- invite other children over so that your child has to share and interact with others while playing
Sharing- have your children work together (or with other children) in the kitchen to make the food or coffee or even taking turns as each part (barista or customer)
Addition- adding up how much the entire bill is going to be
Subtraction- make that change!
Multiplication-have them multiple the amount of an item that is ordered more than once
Counting- counting money (even if they don’t know the monetary worth of the bill- if it is $3 have them count out 3 bills no worrying about if they are 1 dollar bills or not)
Counting- counting the correct number of chairs or place settings needed for each table
Counting- counting the correct number of items ordered
Matching- matching the food to the item ordered or to who ordered it
Vocabulary- learning and reading the items on the menu
Writing and Fine Motor Skills- writing the bill or even just circling the item on the order form
Gross Motor Skills- walking around without failing or knocking something over (we all probably need some practice here)
And so much more!!!

Please enjoy this dramatic play area with your child.

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