How to Make a Dress-Up Box
A dress-up box is a great activity for a rainy day and also a terrific way to recycle clothes.
- Difficulty:
- Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Gloves
- Clothes
- Costumes
- Hats
- Shoes
- Cardboard Boxes
- Glitter
- Glues
- Markers
- Stickers
- Cardboard boxes
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Get a large cardboard box.
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Ask your kids to help you decorate it. Let them go wild with their imagination. Use markers, glue, glitter, stickers and so on.
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Dig out all those old Halloween costumes and dance and play outfits. Put them in the box.
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Go through your closets and remove all those ugly old clothes you'll never wear again. Add those to the box.
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Sort through mittens, gloves and hats. Place any worn-out or mismatched items in the dress-up box.
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Donate scarves, boots, shoes and extra material to the box as well.
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Bring the box out on a rainy day and let your kids dig through it. Watch them make crazy outfits for themselves.
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Try structuring the play by asking them to attempt to dress up as certain things - an elephant, a princess, a chef. Or have each person dress up as something and have everyone else try to guess who or what they are.
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Keep the box in a closet or attic so you can add things to it easily.
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