🩻 Letter of the Week: X is for X-Ray

Featuring our $5 Doctor's Office Dramatic Play Kit

This week's theme is "X is for X-Ray", and we're pairing it with our Doctor's Office Printable Pack, designed especially for sensory play and perfect for decorating your IKEA Flisat table. With the Doctor's Office Dramatic Play Kit, your FLISAT table becomes a friendly doctor's office — kids check in patients, listen with stethoscopes, and study "x-rays" while they explore the world of medicine. New to the table? Here's how to set up a FLISAT table before your first patient arrives.

Doctor's Office Dramatic Play Kit

🛒 What's in the $5 Doctor's Office Printable Pack

The Doctor's Office Printable Pack includes:

  • Doctor's office signage & check-in setup
  • Printable doctor tools: stethoscope, syringe, and thermometer
  • Patient charts and checkup activity pages
  • Worksheets: letter X tracing and body-themed activity pages
  • Vocabulary cards: doctor, x-ray, patient, healthy, and more

Recommended for ages 3 and up.

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🧰 Materials You'll Need

  • Doctor's Office Printable Pack
  • IKEA Flisat table (or any sensory bin)
  • Stuffed animals and dolls — the patients!
  • Toy doctor kit tools and bandages
  • Black paper and white crayons or chalk for drawing "x-rays"
  • A flashlight or light box for viewing x-rays
  • Clipboards, cotton balls, and craft sticks

🩻 How to Set Up Your X-Ray Sensory Bin

  1. Print and hang the doctor's office signage and check-in setup on your pegboard or backdrop.
  2. Fill one bin with cotton balls and doctor tools as the exam station.
  3. Set up an x-ray viewing corner with the flashlight or light box.
  4. Line up patients in the waiting area with their charts.
  5. Place the vocabulary cards and worksheets nearby, then call the first patient — examine, x-ray, and heal!

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🎯 Learning Objectives by Age Group

  • 6–12 mo: Watching, reaching, and cuddling soft patients during play
  • 1–2 yrs: Naming body parts; gentle pretend checkups
  • 2–3 yrs: Matching tools to their jobs, taking turns as doctor and patient
  • 3–4 yrs: Letter X tracing, drawing bones on x-rays, counting heartbeats
  • 4–5 yrs: Sequencing a checkup, simple body and bone facts, writing patient notes

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💡 Tips to Extend the Activity

  • Draw Your Own X-Rays: Trace hands on black paper and add white "bones" with chalk.
  • Heartbeat Listening: Use a real or toy stethoscope to listen after jumping jacks.
  • Doctor's Bag Packing: Pack and unpack the doctor's bag, naming every tool.
  • Feelings Checkup: Talk about how patients feel and how doctors help.
  • Story Time: Read a favorite doctor-visit picture book before opening the office.

📚 Related Activities

  • Letter V: Vet week
  • Doctor's Office flashcards
  • Letter S: Science week
  • Pretend play vet clinic sensory setup

🔤 25 Vocabulary Words for "X-Ray" Theme

x-ray, doctor, nurse, patient, office, checkup, healthy, bones, skeleton, stethoscope, thermometer, syringe, bandage, medicine, heartbeat, listen, exam, waiting room, appointment, chart, help, heal, body, care, brave

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