Friday, June 29, 2012

Dressing Up in Costumes and Dress Up Clothes Can Help Children Build Social Skills

Do you ever feel like your child needs to branch out and learn to play with other children besides her parents?

We love spending time with our children, but as they grow from babies to toddlers, we need to help them build social relationships with other kids to prepare them for issues that they will face later in school and eventually in the world.

Toddler Pirate Costume

Some ways we can foster social activity with our children is to be proactive. Start a play group in your neighborhood. Invite other parents and children your kids age to your house and encourage your child to thing of activities they can do with each other.

A fun thing to do at play groups is to be creative and foster fun dress up play. A princess dress, princess costume, boys costume can be great for breaking the ice with other kids. Shy kids are instantly transformed to outgoing with this kind of imaginative dress up play. Bossy kids often let others take the lead in this type of situation. A great brand of dress up costumes is Little Adventures costumes because they are made from high quality fabrics and are machine washable. Snow White costumes, and Cinderella dresses are the most popular princess costumes for girls. Boys like something easy to get on and off like a pirate cape and pirate hat, superhero cape, batman cape, or spiderman cape are a popular boys costume.

Another way you can foster friendly relationships with other children is to make a play date with a friend from school. Invite them to your house or suggest a public place to meet. This helps build important social skills and helps them cope better at school when they have a friend to confide in.

Pretend with your children! Get an adult princess costume! How fun would it be to dress up with your child and pretend along with them? Try an adult Cinderella costume and see how it transforms you are well as your child! You can even use it as a Halloween princess costume later.

Most important, make sure your child feels loved and secure that you will always be there for him or her. Take time to foster creative behavior in your children and see what a positive difference it will make not only to them but to you as well.

Get some dress up clothes for your kids today and see if it will make a big difference in the way they play with you and with other kids!

Dressing Up in Costumes and Dress Up Clothes Can Help Children Build Social Skills

Shelby Strong is a stay at home mom of 2 girls and a boy. She is also a small business owner of an at home business called My Cute Dressups. Visit her site where she sells Princess Costumes. She has seen the immense benefits princess costumes and Boy Costumes has made in the life of her kids.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Choosing Unique Toys For Children

Whether you are searching for the perfect birthday gift, Christmas present, or just for every day imaginative play, choosing unique toys that every kids doesn't have is a challenge. Having toys that are fun and educational are a necessity to the modern home. This guide will help you choose toys that you child will love. You will love the price tag and the functionality as well.

1. Leap Frog Tag Reading System
This toy is great because your preschooler can read on his own. He simply runs a special computerized pen across a special book and it reads the words for him. Of course, this does not replace one on one time reading with your child, but can allow him to get some reading done and learn new words when you are unavailable. Easy to store in the garage or on a covered porch. Price:

Toddler Pirate Costume

2. Razor Pro Scooter
A scooter is a great way to get your child motivated to play outside. You can get them for girls or boys and they are great fun to play with! You can invited neighbor kids over for a scooter play date too. This is a great way to get inactive kids to get off the couch and outside to play. Price +

3. Play Food
Anything imaginative is great for a toddler or child. Kids love to play with things that grown ups use. This is why play food is a great gift or toy for your little girl or boy. She will love to bake a cake, make cookies, shakes, eggs, pancakes and more with this fun and imaginative toy. Price +

4. Dress Up Clothes
Many children love to pretend and dress up in costumes. They may like to pretend that they are a princess or a pirate. What little girl doesn't love Cinderella dress up clothes? Crowns and wands are also very popular. What little boy doesn't love to pretend to be a knight who saves Princess Rapunzel, or damsel in distress? Make sure you get costumes that are machine washable. Price: +

5. Games
Games are great family activities. Whether you have a set night of the week you spend time together, or just get together with friends and family to play games, for older kids Settlers of Catan is a really fun game that will keep them captivated and learning for hours on end. Price +

Whether you are on a budget, or the sky is the limit, this guide will help you on your qwest to finding the perfect toy for the perfect child. Not only will they learn lessons and valuable skills with these toys, but if you teach them, they will learn how to love and respect their belongings.

Choosing Unique Toys For Children

Shelby is the mother of 2 girls and 1 boy and lives in Orem, Utah. She also runs a home-based business called My Cute Dressups at http://www.mycutedressups.com that sells Princess dress up clothes and other fun pretend play items for kids, toddlers, and even teenagers and adult princess costumes. She also has an ebay store and a local store run by the same name. She has seen a noticeable difference in her kids after encouraging dress up play.

Visit her website for more biographical information or to see her exciting line of Princess Costumes like Cinderella dresses, Snow White Costumes, Sleeping Beauty dresses, wedding dress up, Medieval Princess, Yellow Beauty, Winter Beauty, Rapunzel dress, doll clothes that fit American Girl, 18 inch doll clothes. She has a Cinderella doll dress that matches exactly with the girl Cinderella dress as well as matching Snow White doll dress, Sleeping Beauty doll dress, and Medieval princess doll dress.