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Mrs. Kristy Rivero from Livingston, LA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Play Kitchen for Pre-K

Help me give my students a play kitchen to enhance their imagination and strengthen their language skills as they play.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Kristy Rivero's classroom raised $1,216

This project is fully funded

My Project

Having a play kitchen in my dramatic play center would be extremely beneficial to my Pre-K students. The play kitchen would give my students the opportunity to interact and play with each other, which will help enhance their social and language skills. It will also nurture creativity and imagination by pretending to be a chef, a baker, a server in a restaurant, or just a mom or dad cooking a meal. Fine motor and hand-eye coordination skills can also develop through kitchen play by allowing the students an opportunity to turn knobs, grasp spoons for mixing, and pretending to chop or squeeze various foods. Play kitchens can also improve a child’s numeracy skills. Children can count how many plates they need, weigh ingredients, and count how many minutes the food needs to be in the oven, which enhances their mathematical learning while they play.

Children love to role-play, and with this kitchen playset my students will not only be able to strengthen their creativity, language, and fine motor skills but they will also be given the opportunity to prepare their own culinary masterpieces as they smile, laugh, and have fun.

Mrs. Kristy Rivero Frost Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Livingston, LA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

20 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Environments® Preschool Combination Kitchen - Ready to Assemble • Discount School Supply $769.99 1 $769.99

Materials cost

$769.99

Vendor shipping charges

$154.00

Sales tax

$67.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,032.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$182.28

Total project goal

$1,215.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,215.19

4 Donors

-$820.27

Donations toward project cost

-$805.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.74

match offer

-$267.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$227.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$127.41

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$0.00

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