The jolly postman!

Lily spent last evening writing a message to her pen pal in California, so I had to smile when my sister sent me photos of her post office dramatic play center. For Valentine’s Day, she often incorporates a post office theme into her lesson plans. I think it is a great idea. I have a thing for post offices, the postal service, and stamps. I was really into stamps in my childhood which extended into my teen years. I liked learning about faraway places. A girlfriend of mine actually produced a…

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Editable post office price list poster, part of our post office role play series.

The Jolly Postman Small World. Rhyming houses and envelopes with rhyming words. Characters from the story.

Thought: Cubicle walls (or using furniture) section long wall into squares to make our village, post office, salon, store, florist etc. Mini areas for 1-2 kiddos @ a time.

Our post office based on the jolly postman and jolly Christmas postman.

The Jolly postman post office :)

Letter sorting is a fun way to work on letter recognition and get some pretend play in too.

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While we were at the Visitor Centre I set up several activities outside. One was a StoryWalk. The Jolly Postman by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. There isn't much green space around the centre so I used a clothesline to hang the story on a fence. To expand the idea of mail I set up a mail box with envelopes and pens. They wrote their address on the envelopes and put them in the mailbox. I'll mail them soon. I hope they are surprised when it arrives at their house.

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Hmmm…what’s this? Envelopes? A marker?Not just any envelopes, not just any marker…Dear readers, THESE are special play letters! That marker is a wet erase marker. And those envelopes are laminated. That means hours of fun imaginary play and, someday, practice for printing and addressing letters!How did I make them? It was easy-peasy. I took some …