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Costume Box Encourages Your Toddler’s Creativity and Pretend Play

Last Updated: September 14, 2009

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Parenting Tips for Your 33-34 Month Old Toddler

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Materials

  • Large, cardboard box
  • Cast off clothing, hats, scarves, shawls, and so on

Playing

  • Your toddler will know what to do with this box of costumes; he has lots of imagination.
  • Encourage his pretend play by suggesting people he can pretend to be. Suggest that he act out characters you’ve read about in stories or have him ask you to guess who he is dressed up as.
  • Sometimes, he’ll enjoy having you dress up and pretend with him.


Learn more about Your Toddler: 33-34 Months from Just In Time Parenting. You can also go to our Resource Links for additional information on child care and development.


Note to Parents: When reading this newsletter, remember: Every baby is different. Children may do things earlier or later than described here. This newsletter gives equal space and time to both sexes. If he or she is used, we are talking about all babies.
References: These materials were adapted by authors from Extension Just in Time Parenting Newsletters in California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.

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