Whiteboard Story Scenes for Pretend Play
Pretend play is important for developing social skills, language skills, thinking skills, and much more. Place a whiteboard on the floor and draw story scenes to spark your child’s imagination. Affiliate links are included in this post.
Whiteboard Story Scenes for Pretend Play
I used our large whiteboard to draw a background for the pretend play. The whiteboard is simply a piece of hardboard marker board from the hardwood store.
Aiden helped draw, too. Can you tell?
In our story scene, we included roads, a train track, a river emptying into a bay, an airport, and grass.
We added pieces from the Melissa & Doug Vehicles Chunky Wooden Puzzle
And then Aiden’s imagination took off… as he gathered more toys to join the scene.
He asked for a firehouse.
The firetruck had to rush to put out the fire.
The train is stopped at the train depot. The yellow car is about to stop at the stop sign. Take a look at that view!
Uh-oh, there’s an accident. The police car is getting involved.
The dog is playing in the flower garden.
This is how Aiden and I enjoy spending much of our day – playing. I love to watch his imagination at work and see the stories unfold.
More Pretend Play Ideas
- Storytelling Inspired by The Puddle – Here’s another way that we’ve used the whiteboard as a story scene. This time there’s simply a puddle drawn on the board. Watch the video of Aiden’s story, The Robot and The Puddle.
- Retell your favorite story using props like we did for Are You My Mother?
- Create 3D play scenes to go along with Little Hoot, one of our favorite owl books.
- Check out this post for over 50 storytelling ideas.
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