This document provides a list of furniture, materials, and equipment needed to outfit the indoor and outdoor environments of a preschool classroom for 12-15 3-5 year old children. It includes detailed items for different activity centers, dramatic play, math/manipulatives, language/literacy, building, and outdoor play along with the associated costs. Guidelines are provided for creating rich indoor environments through exploration, play, teaching, social interaction, significance to children, and a sense of belonging. Outdoor environments should support gross motor development, active engagement, physical exercise, safety, and natural materials.

1. Indoor and Outdoor
Environment
Preschool Classroom
Ages 3-5
12-15 Children

2. Classroom Furniture
Table and chairs for writing center
Cost $279.99
2 Tables and chairs for activity centers
Cost $398.00

3. Manipulatives center
Cost $474.99
Science Table
Cost $299.99
Music Media Center
Cost $369.99
Art storage shelf
Cost $549.99

4. Craft and listening station
Cost $610.29
Dramatic Play activity loft
Cost $3,999.99
6 Storage shelves
Cost $2,333.94

5. Sensory Play Station
Cost $299.99
Sensory Table
Cost $234.95
Art Station
Cost $479.99

6. Dramatic Play Materials
Dolls
Cost $100
Dress Up Clothes Cost $60.00
Dramatic Play
Career Vests
Cost $60.00
Doctor Set
Cost $27.99

7. Cash Register
Cost $ 36.99
Ethnic Play Food
Cost $79.99
Dishes
Cost $47.99
Play food
Cost $55.99
Puppets Cost $49.99 Tool Box Cost $27.99

8. Math and Manipulatives
Counting Bears $19.99 Peg number boards
Cost $24.99
Math Sheets $23.99 Unifix Cubes $12.79
Dino Stomp $ 27.99 Bear pattern cards $10.99 Pattern blocks $20.99

9. Sorting Center $45.99 Motor Activity set $29.99 Math center $29.99
Sequencing pocket chart
$19.99
Shape Puzzles $ 19.99 Pattern books $ 49.99

10. Language and Literacy
Alphabet sorting $39.99
Spelling game $ 19.99 Magnetic letters $ 11.99
Motor skill set $ 39.99 Vocab center $29.99 Alphabet Activity Game
$34.99

11. Word building sets $23.99 Dry Erase lap boards
$ 4.99 Fairy Tales stories, books, & CD
$98.99
File folder games $38.99 A-Z Pegboards $79.98 Puzzle boards $28.99

12. Building Center
Building blocks $44.99
Foam building blocks
$149.99
Wooden Play Trucks
$28.99
Farm Block Play Set
$ 37.99
Play People
$66.99
Train Set
$59.99

13. Doll House $179.99
Parking garage $98.99

14. Outdoor Play Area
Big Playhouse $929.99Climber and Slide Set
$4,999.99
Caterpillar Tunnel $449.99

15. Alfresco Kit $1,249.99 Picnic table $1,069.99
See Saw $154.99
Sandbox $289.99 Basketball Hoop $86.99
Out door Art Easel $249.99

16. 5 Hopper balls $84.95 Drum Set $97.99 Skill Set $149.99
Balls $13.99 Out door Play Kit $234.99 Sand Set $82.99

17. INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS SHOULD BE:
 Rich in Experience. Children need to explore, experiment, and learn basic
knowledge through direct experience. Childhood is a time for children to learn
about the world around them through physical exploration. Their environment
should have many opportunities for children to explore and discover their world.
 Rich in Play. Play provides a way for children to integrate all their new experiences
into their rapidly developing minds, bodies, emotions, and social skills. Brain
research supports this idea, stressing that children learn best through an
integrated approach combining physical, emotional, cognitive, and social
growth. Children need lots of room, toys and time to play.
 Rich in Teaching. The role of the teacher is critical in a child’s life. Children
depend on teachers to be their confidant, colleague, model, instructor, and
nurturer of educational experiences.
 Rich with People. Clearly children need lots of exposure to other people in their
early childhood years. Social Development is important in the preschool years.
Children need opportunities to interact and engage with other people.
 Significant to Children. Young children need to feel important. Children need to
feel that what they do is meaningful to someone besides themselves. Children
should be given important and meaningful jobs in the classroom.
 Places Children Can Call Their Own. A basic human need is the need to belong.
Children need to feel they belong, too. They need to be close to people they
know, have familiar and comfortable objects, and be in a setting that has a
personal history for them.

18. OUT DOOR ENVIRONMENTS SHOULD:
 Have adequate materials for children’s Gross motor
development
 There should be plenty of activities for children to engage in to
help keep them active and learning
 There should be plenty of space for children to run around and
get physical exercise
 All out door equipment should be in good repair and safe for
children to play on
 There should be natural materials in the play area such as trees,
plants, acorns, grass, pine cones
 There should be materials for dramatic play and creative thinking
activities

19. CORE COMPETENCIES
 Child Growth and Developments: Level 3
a. Recognizes that interaction with people and the environment stimulates the child’s brain function and
therefore brain growth and development.
 Curriculum and Learning Environment: Level 1
c. Plans regular daily activities that include indoor and outdoor activities.
d. Maintains a physically and emotionally safe environment and creates learning spaces with focus on
safety, health, routines and play/exploration.
e. Recognizes that infants and toddlers need spaces that promote movement and exploration.
f. Offers children choices.
g. Supports and encourages children’s participation in a variety of activities
 Promoting Physical Development: Level 1
a. Understands that gross and fine motor skills develop along a continuum.
b. Allows infants and toddler daily opportunities for gross and fine motor play.
c. Interacts appropriately with children during physical activities.
d. Plans for daily outdoor gross motor play time.
e. Plans for indoor gross motor play time when
being outdoors is not possible due to inclement weather.
f. Participates actively in children’s activities.
g. Ensure child safety during gross motor play