Things You'll Need:
- Gloves
- Clothes
- Costumes
- Gloves
- Hats
- Shoes
- Gloves
- Cardboard Boxes
- Glitter
- Glues
- Markers
- Stickers
- Hats
- Markers
- Cardboard boxes
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Step 1
Get a large cardboard box.
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Step 2
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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Step 3
Dig out all those old Halloween costumes and dance and play outfits. Put them in the box.
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Step 4
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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Step 5
Sort through mittens, gloves and hats. Place any worn-out or mismatched items in the dress-up box.
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Step 6
Donate scarves, boots, shoes and extra material to the box as well.
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Step 7
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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Step 8
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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Step 9
Keep the box in a closet or attic so you can add things to it easily.









Comments
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 When replacing your makeup and there is still a little left over from your old container, put it in a plastic container with a lid and add it to the box. This also goes for any leftover Halloween makeup not used.