It's just like real life. When preschool teacher Theresa Yarber was setting up her classroom, she wanted a fresh take on the dramatic play area in her classroom where the kids use their imagination.

On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center ... Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area ...

Encourage children to mime the actions to go with the sound effects. Create a building site role play area with off-cuts of wood, boxes, polystyrene ‘blocks’ Furnish with tools and had hats ...

On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten ... the percentage of classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 ...