Kids love imaginative play, and one of the best ways to encourage creativity and self expression is through dress-up. Allowing kids to be their favorite action hero, cartoon character, or even an imaginary friend with the help of a few costume props helps to keep kids away from TV and video games, too. Here's how to create a child's dress up box that you can pull out on the next time kids say, "I'm bored!"
About The Author: An Arizona freelance writer for the past decade, Claire is a regular contributor to the Arizona Republic's business, career builder and community sections and is also the author of a statewide restaurant guide, "Dining in Arizona - 101 Great Places to Eat" Claire has co-authored several cookbooks and is now a working chef and menu designer in Sun City, AZ.
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I would love to have that box pirate ship in my back yard for my grandson who loves pirates of the caribean. I'll have to try to make him one of those.
A couple of years ago, when all the halloween coustumes went on sale for 90% off, I bought a huge bagfull of costumes, partial costumes, props and wigs for about $20 (less than one cost before Halloween!) and put them all in a large clear plastic tote for a dress up box and gave it to my then boyfriend's 7 year old daughter for Christmas. She was thrilled and got hours and hours of play time out of them.
I originally got the idea because she was highly upset that she had outgrown all of her expensive "princess" outfits (bought long before thrifty me came along! lol).
Can't wait til my little granddaughter is big enough to do the same for her!
We had a dress up box when my kids were young. They are all about grown now, and long since left the world of make believe. But, what fun they had with it! We also put in vintage outfits, with wigs, hats, and gloves for the girls, and old prom dresses, Then hats, vest, and ties for the boys, and then we made fake mustaches out of "stretched out" cotton balls. You can also do outfits like clown, a profession, like a dog catcher, or policeman. But, my kids loved the old vintage outfits the best, and would parade around with them on, it made for great pictures! My nieces and nephew also enjoyed the dress up box.
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