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Pretend Play Writing Printables

By Karen Cox | Affiliate Disclosure | Filed Under: Dramatic Play, Pre-Writing Skills

These pretend play printables will encourage your prekinders to practice writing skills while playing. Most importantly, children have fun writing while they play, and they practice skills without even realizing!

Pretend Play Writing Printables

Here are six printables that can be used in your Dramatic Play Center and/or House Center. Children will practice writing letters and numerals with these printables as they pretend to write phone messages, shopping lists, recipes, calendars, checks, and design their own money. You will often see younger preschoolers writing scribbles, wavy lines, and letter-like symbols. These are all important steps in the pre-writing learning process.

Shopping List Printable

Kids can use this shopping list while pretending to write our their grocery list. Each line has a box to the left that they can check off as the pretend to purchase their items. These fit well on mini clipboards.

Shopping List Printable

Download: Printable Shopping List

 Printable Play Checks

Kids can use these printable checks to pretend to pay for their items at the grocery store, restaurant, doctor’s office, etc. They can use these to practice writing numbers and letters.

Play Checks Printable

Download: Printable Play Checks

Printable Play Money

Kids can design their own money with this printable. Allow children to inspect real money, and then design their own money by writing a number and drawing pictures. (Friends of this site in other countries can email me to request their money, if needed.)

Play Money Printable

Download: Printable Play Money

Printable Recipe Card

Kids can pretend to write their own recipe by drawing a picture of their food in the box, and then write the steps to make the food on the lines below. Encourage children to write letters as well as numbers to represent how many of each ingredient.

Recipe Card Printable for Kids

Download: Recipe Printable

Phone Message Printable

Kids can answer the phone and take messages for other people by writing on this Phone Message sheet. They will write the caller’s name and message in the boxes.

Phone Message for Dramatic Play

Download: Phone Message Printable

Calendar Printable

My students love to write on calendars! Kids can write numbers, letters, or symbols to represent holidays, birthdays, and other special events.

calendar for kids

Download: Printable Calendar

I hope your children enjoy these writing printables for pretend play! I am working on another set of printables for the Writing Center, coming up soon! You can find more Pre-Writing Activities for Pre-K here.

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36 Comments Tagged With: Literacy Printables

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Karen is the founder of PreKinders.com. She also works as a full-time Pre-K teacher in Georgia. Read more...

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  1. Lori says

    November 12, 2014 at 8:28 am

    I think our girls will enjoy using these printables while playing dolls. Thanks a lot .

    Reply
  2. Darcille says

    November 12, 2014 at 8:50 am

    I am a Head Start Teacher in California. I enjoy so many of your creative ideas.
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    I use them whenever,& where ever possible to help enrich learning & make it fun & enjoyable.

    Reply
  3. kendell says

    November 12, 2014 at 9:02 am

    Thanks once again for sharing your files, they are appreciated, Kindest regards

    Reply
  4. Chris says

    November 12, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Thank you for the terrific ideas. Writing was my focus on my PDP this year and these will definitely help.

    Reply
  5. LeAnn says

    November 12, 2014 at 9:42 am

    Wonderful!

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    • Kathy says

      November 18, 2014 at 5:39 pm

      Thank you so much Karen for the resources. YOur website is awesome!!!

      Reply
  6. Chris says

    November 12, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Thank you so much! I’ve always wanted my Kitchen Center to be more meaningful and these do just the trick!

    Reply
  7. Samantha says

    November 12, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Thanks! Good to use in dramatic play for writing.

    Reply
  8. Sharon says

    November 12, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    Thanks very much for your emails and ideas. I have found some of them very useful as a new teacher in training over the last two months.

    Reply
  9. Sara says

    November 12, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    Great for ELL prek !
    Thank you

    Reply
  10. Rachael says

    November 12, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Thank you for sharing your wonderful creations,

    Reply
  11. Kim says

    November 12, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    What a fabulous resource! Thank you so much for sharing!!

    Reply
  12. Stacy @ Share&Remember says

    November 12, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    So awesome, so awesome, so awesome! Thank you! Will pin & share.

    Reply
  13. Gina says

    November 12, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    So fun! The past couple of years I have extended ‘writing’ opportunities in all of my centers. These printables are so fun! My kiddos love making lists, and menus, and the best is when they write up ticket violations:) Thank you for sharing!! Blessings!

    Reply
  14. Line says

    November 12, 2014 at 10:35 pm

    thank you! great resource to bring more meaning
    and interest to the house area!

    Reply
  15. Rebecca Perera says

    November 13, 2014 at 1:12 am

    Thank you Karen for the pretend pre-writing you sent. It is most valuable and I will use it in my classroom.

    Reply
  16. shailaja reddy says

    November 13, 2014 at 3:32 am

    Hi Karan Thanks ones again for sharing wonderful thought and printables.
    regards

    Reply
  17. Kathy says

    November 13, 2014 at 9:25 am

    Thank you- our class will love these!

    Reply
  18. Hmswt95 says

    November 13, 2014 at 11:05 am

    Thank you so much! Cant wait to use in my class!

    Reply
  19. Solomon Cristina says

    November 13, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful and useful creative ideas!!! Your hard- working hands be blessed, dear for making easier and better days for us! God bless and protect you always!!!

    Reply
  20. Cathy says

    November 13, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    I must take a moment to thank you soooo much for all your wonderful ideas! It is my first year teaching Pre-K and your ideas are inspirational. Thank you once again for sharing! 🙂

    Reply
  21. Glo says

    November 16, 2014 at 8:01 am

    You are the BEST! Thank you again for another awesome activity! <3

    Reply
  22. Michelle Greear says

    November 16, 2014 at 7:14 pm

    Wow! These are absolutely great! I will use everything often throughout the year! Thanks so much!

    Reply
  23. Cheryl Rodgers says

    November 18, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    My students are doing a “clothes study” and we decided to make a class store. These items are PERFECT and just what we need to make our store complete!! Thank you so much!!

    Reply
  24. Lara Griffin says

    November 18, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    Thank you Karen! Fun, fun, fun in learning.

    Reply
  25. Marlene Sommer says

    November 18, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Thank you so much for all of these pretend play printables, Karen! I copied the money on green paper and the checks on yellow…my kids had a BLAST with them today! We added them into our Grocery store and cash register! The shopping list is also a huge hit!

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    • Karen Cox says

      November 18, 2014 at 7:25 pm

      Great idea to use the colored paper, Marlene!

      Reply
  26. Delena says

    November 18, 2014 at 8:27 pm

    So, how do you store these printables in your writing centers?

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    • Karen Cox says

      November 18, 2014 at 8:37 pm

      I’ve used various things. You can put them in ziplock bags (the stiff freezer ones) with the bags in a plastic tub. You can put them in plastic Sterlite drawers. You can put them in a paper sorter. You may even want to only put out one printable at a time, and just put those in a plastic tub or basket.

      Reply
  27. Gretchen Partrich says

    November 19, 2014 at 9:27 am

    Thanks so much for the wonderful freebies and all of your ideas that benefit so many others! I appreciate them!

    Reply
  28. Kristina P says

    November 19, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    Thank you so much for sharing these! These are great!!

    Reply
  29. Lisa G says

    November 25, 2014 at 6:49 pm

    This is an amazing site!! I can’t wait to print these things out for the writing center in my class!

    Reply
  30. Susan says

    August 10, 2015 at 4:40 pm

    I know not to put too much out at each center at the beginning of the year, so do you put a variety of these out the beginning of the year? or just some?

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    • Karen Cox says

      August 10, 2015 at 5:22 pm

      I don’t put these out at the beginning of the year.

      Reply
  31. Lee says

    March 8, 2016 at 6:31 am

    What a great resource! Don’t know how I missed these till now!!

    Reply
  32. Rebecca says

    July 15, 2018 at 12:29 am

    Thank you for these printables! My niece will love getting them in the mail and playing with them!

    Reply

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