Saturday, August 22, 2009

Dress Up Games and Children


Children love dress up games with good reason. Playing dress up games allows children to escape into a fantasy world for a time and lets them create. Both of these are huge advantages and some of the best parts about childhood.

Dress Up Games Allow Creation
Dress up games allow children to create designs and styles. Playing dress up games gives children the opportunity to take seemingly random items of clothing and to put them together into a collection of styles. Pull together an outfit from the dress up box or play with the hundreds of fashion choices online to put together something that can only be termed a brand new style. Playing dress up games encourages creation of new ideas, new styles and the stories and backgrounds behind the items. Dress up games are simply a foundation for true creativity.

Dress Up Games Encourage Fantasy Play
Children live in the real world quite enough thanks to standardized tests and insane schedules. Being able to escape into a world of fantasy and fun is a huge developmental achievement. This level of fantasy play is highly creative, a skill that is increasingly lost in children. Playing dress up games gives a child the opportunity to delve ito whatever scenarios and conditions she creates in her mind while she dresses up a doll or herself. This creativity translates to stories, poetry and artistic abilities down th e road.

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