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Activity: Let's get dressed

Materials:
Selection of adult and children's clothing
Time:
15 minutes
Skills:
Sorting & classifying, pretend play

This activity helps your child develop a sense of relative sizes (big/small). It’s also a great way to turn laundry time into learning time, as well as a fun way to get your child dressed.

Gather articles of clothing in large and small sizes into a laundry basket. Pretend that you, your child and Scout, Violet or another of your child's favourite doll or teddy are getting ready to go out on a trip:

Today we are going to visit Grandma. Let’s take Scout with us. What shall we wear? Let’s get dressed. (Hold up a piece of the child’s clothing.)

Can Mummy/Daddy wear these pants? (Wait for your child to answer.)

How silly, these pants are too small for me. Can Scout wear these pants? (Wait for your child to answer.)

No, these pants are too big for Scout. Can you wear these pants?

Help your child get dressed, repeating with shirt, shoes and hat. When your child is finally dressed, make-believe the laundry basket is a car. Put the child and Scout in the basket, and ask them to buckle their seatbelts. Gently rock the basket as you “drive” to Grandma’s house.