Get Your Driver’s License at the DMV

Development Level: Preschool/Prek

Learning Areas: Dramatic Play, Technology, Literacy

Overview: Introduce the Department of Motor Vehicles operations with this hands-on dramatic play activity!

Materials:

• Device for taking photos (with printing capabilities)
• Pieces of white construction paper (cut into the shape of large licenses by the teacher; 1 per child)
• Colored pencils (for children to decorate their licenses)
• Markers (for children to write their names, birthdays, and states on licenses)
• Printed eye exam test
• Examples of licenses (either a teacher’s or printed)
• Printed images of the DMV
• Tape (for hanging printed eye exam test to the wall)
• Children’s scissors (for cutting out photos)
• Glue sticks (for gluing printed photos to licenses)
• Chart paper
• Chairs
• Cash register and play money