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Pretend and Role Play practice for Nursery – Reception

Art & creativity · Pretend Play · Early Years (EYFS). Role play and acting out stories.

What your child will learn

Join in pretend play: doctors, cafés, shops and animals.
Use one object to stand for something else in pretend play.
Take part in role play: choose what characters would say and need, use props imaginatively, retell a traditional tale and play cooperatively.

Try some free pretend and role play questions

These are real BrightWorld questions. In the app, every question adapts to your child’s level and comes with hints and worked examples.

Question 1. We are playing doctors. What does the doctor need?

football
stethoscope
frying pan

Show the answer

stethoscope

Question 2. In The Three Billy Goats Gruff, where does the troll live?
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In a rocket
In a castle
Under the bridge

Show the answer

Under the bridge

Question 3. Let’s pretend this cardboard tube is a…
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teddy
telescope

Show the answer

telescope

How BrightWorld helps with pretend and role play

Children practise pretend and role play at Easy, Medium or Hard, in mixed quizzes, in the Answer Run game and inside story missions. If they get stuck, they get a hint and a worked example; if they’re flying, the questions get harder. Parents see how they’re doing in the parent area.

Practise pretend and role play in BrightWorld
BrightWorld starts at your child’s level with a quick, fun check, then adapts as they learn. No ads, no strangers, and you see what they’ve learned.
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