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.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Gloves
• Clothes
• Costumes
• Hats
• Shoes
• Cardboard Boxes
• Glitter
• Glues
• Markers
• Stickers

1. Get a large cardboard box.
2. Ask your kids to help you decorate it. Let them go wild with their imagination. Use markers, glue, glitter, stickers and so on.
3. Dig out all those old Halloween costumes and dance and play outfits. Put them in the box.
4. Go through your closets and remove all those ugly old clothes you'll never wear again. Add those to the box.
5. Sort through mittens, gloves and hats. Place any worn-out or mismatched items in the dress-up box.
6. Donate scarves, boots, shoes and extra material to the box as well.
7. Bring the box out on a rainy day and let your kids dig through it. Watch them make crazy outfits for themselves.
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.
9. Keep the box in a closet or attic so you can add things to it easily.