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Child playing at a wooden market stall piled with hand-felted fruit, vegetables, and flowers under a striped awning for classroom dramatic play

Dramatic Play

Social-Emotional & Pretend Play

Children rehearse the world before they live it. Hand-built farmyards, classroom markets, and harvest tables: the props for becoming.

Section 07 · Pre-K to Grade 2
For budget & procurement

Built for the social-emotional learning Head Start’s ELOF places at the heart of early childhood: cooperation, empathy, and the roles children try on through play. Hand-built farmyards, markets, and harvest tables. We can map each piece to a competency in an alignment letter, on request. May qualify for funding through Head Start and Title I, or local discretionary funds. Final eligibility is determined by your school or district.

Head Start ELOF · SEL Request an alignment letter Ages 3+ · Pre-K to Grade 2 Durable Polish alder, German beech Hand-felted wool from the Kathmandu valley workshops Sociodramatic, home corners Fagus ASTM F963-17 · Drewart EN 71 · FSC Made in Germany, Poland, Nepal & Indonesia Net 60 · exemption certificates

Hand-finished alder in a Polish workshop. Hand-stitched felt produce in the Kathmandu valley workshops. Slow goods, on purpose.

Every dramatic-play piece is built by makers we know by name. Drewart alder furniture from a Polish family workshop. Tender Leaf market fixtures. Fagus solid-beech vehicles built to outlast. Tara Treasures felt produce, from a Fair Trade Certified company, designed in Melbourne and hand-worked by women artisans in the Kathmandu valley workshops.

Smiling child lifting a basket at a felt grocery market stall full of hand-felted produce for classroom dramatic play
Essay One  ·  Imagine and Become

Children learn the world by playing it first.

Before a child learns the price of bread, she weighs a felt loaf in a wooden scale. Before he understands a farm, he sleeps the calves in the shed. Dramatic Play is the toolkit for that prior learning. A farmyard with a real working tractor. A classroom market that opens at nine. A pantry where pumpkins live in baskets and rolling pins live on hooks. No batteries. No instructions. Just scene, prop, and the long generous space where a child practices being a person.

The Farmyard

Cows in the shed. Tractor in the field. The slow rhythm of care.

The Shop

Bread on the shelf, coins in the drawer, customers at nine.

The Pantry

Apples in the basket, cabbage on the cutting board, the kitchen as classroom.

In this section

Hand-built scenes and felt provisions for the social world, rehearsed in miniature.

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Bring the cows in at dusk, latch the gate, check the calves once more. The farmyard runs on small, repeated acts of care.
From the 2026 Fall Edit, page 48
01 The Farmyard Scene
Open the farm stand on Monday morning. By Tuesday, children have stocked the shelves, set the prices, and lined up to take turns as shopkeeper.
From the 2026 Fall Edit, page 47
02 The Harvest
03 The Shop Scene
04 The Pantry
05 Sweet Shop · Bakery
06 Sweet Shop  ·  Treats & Celebrations
07 World Foods  ·  East Asian Cuisines
08 The World Kitchen
A child sets the table she has watched her family set, cooks the dish she has smelled in a grandmother's kitchen. Dramatic play is the whole social world, rehearsed in miniature.
From the 2026 Fall Edit, page 12

Paying for this

One room or a whole school, many ways to pay for it.

Districts issue a purchase order and are invoiced Net 60. Private practices, microschools, libraries, and homeschool co-ops pay by card, or we invoice you directly, with no purchase order needed. We give you the paperwork either way.

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Lead time
3 to 8 weeks from PO
Arrival window
Stated per line on your quote
Quote turnaround
2 business days, held 45 days
Terms
Card, invoice, or Net 60 for approved districts

The whole dramatic-play corner

Outfit your classroom in one quote.

Schools buy Dramatic Play as catalog sets, not as single pieces. The two purchase-order-ready sets below are the same ones in our 2026 Fall Edit. Each is priced as a package and can be added to your cart.

CATALOG SETS  ·  NET 60  ·  TAX-EXEMPT  ·  ONE-ON-ONE CURATION

Complete Farmyard  ·  MTW-DP-FYS

The Farmyard Set.

Mat, animals, vehicles, fences.

$404

A complete farmyard play scene with mat, animals, working vehicles, and wooden fences.

  • Farm Mat: MTW-DP-TFM
  • Farm Animals (set of 10): MTW-DP-TFA
  • Classic Tractor: MTW-DP-FTT
  • Farm Cart: MTW-DP-FCT
  • Wooden Farm Fences (4 pc): MTW-DP-PWF

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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The East Asia Table  ·  MTW-DP-EAT

The East Asia Table.

Dim sum, sushi, bento, noodles.

$448

Five felt meals from across East Asia. Every set shares the same felt scale, so pieces move freely between them and a group can run one restaurant or five stalls at once.

  • Yum Cha Dim Sum (31 pc): MTW-DP-YUM
  • Sushi Bento Box (15 pc): MTW-DP-SBB
  • Egg Rolls & Hand Rolls (16 pc): MTW-DP-ERH
  • Mixed Sushi Rolls (12 pc): MTW-DP-MSR
  • Beef Noodle Soup (15 pc): MTW-DP-BNS

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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The World Kitchen  ·  MTW-DP-WKN

The World Kitchen.

Five tables, five traditions.

$587

Five felt meals from five food traditions, each carrying the customs that come with it: who serves, who shares, how a meal begins.

  • Swedish Fika (9 pc): MTW-DP-SWF
  • West African Jollof (11 pc): MTW-DP-WAJ
  • Middle Eastern Mezze (31 pc): MTW-DP-MEM
  • Ethiopian Feast (23 pc): MTW-DP-EFE
  • Peruvian Street Food (27 pc): MTW-DP-PSF

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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The Classroom Market  ·  MTW-DP-SH

The Classroom Shop.

Stall, cart, register, food, accessories.

$714

A market stand, cart, cash register, shopping accessories, and forty-three pieces of wooden food. The complete classroom market for sociodramatic centers.

  • General Stores Market Stall: MTW-DP-TGS
  • Let’s Go Shopping Collection: MTW-DP-TLS
  • Big Box of Play Food (43 pc): MTW-DP-EBB
  • Cash Register: MTW-DP-TCR
  • Shopping Cart: MTW-DP-TSC

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD. Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.

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Each catalog set is billed on a single purchase order, and each line ships in its arrival tranche. Longer-lead pieces ship separately on their own timeline. Net 60 accounts and exemption certificates welcome.

Longer-lead pieces include Drewart alder furniture, Fagus vehicles, and the largest Tender Leaf market fixtures. Ask us for current timing.

Net 60 · exemption certificates
A note from us

Or tell us about your classroom.

For custom mixes, district orders, or just a consultation, write to us directly. We are Irfana and Rashid, the founders, and a small team at our Los Angeles workshop. We will reply with a set recommendation, a line-item quote, and an estimated ship date.

Most schools hear back within two business days.

Replied to by a human.

Every reply comes from Irfana, Rashid, or a member of our small team. Never a bot, never a ticket queue. Within two business days.

Or schedule a call.

For first-time school accounts, district planning, or a walkthrough of the catalog. Twenty minutes on the phone with someone who knows the workshop.

Call us: (626) 841-0421 →
Mon to Fri, 9am to 5pm Pacific

Tell us about the room and we will build the quote. The full form, with budget, timeline, and the sets you are considering, is on our quote page.

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