This post is sponsored by Antsy Pants. All opinions are my own.
Imaginative play is essential for children. It helps children build their skills – emotion and social. It helps them experiment with different life scenarios. It helps children cooperate, take turns, problem solve and interact. It’s an important learning and teaching tool that most kids naturally participate in.
When I was growing up my friends and I were really into a certain television show and would play episodes from that show every afternoon. We didn’t have costumes to assist us in our play time but we did have a few of the characters accessories which really enhanced the game, in my opinion. Now as a Mom, I definitely want my children to spend time using their imaginations to play but I would love to help assist the creative environment by providing costumes to help them get really into the games.
Now, of course the construction vehicle is a really fun tool to bring out the imagination of my kids alone, but how fun would it be to take it a step further with a costume. When I was little I wanted nothing more than to have a costume of that show we were playing, but I never got it. Now as a Mom I have found easy ways to piece together costumes so my kids can have that extra help with their imaginative play.
A few years back my husband and I wanted to create some easy DIY costumes. We found a fun and easy way to piece together a construction worker, which now, years later my next son is using to help him play with this construction vehicle. The below picture shows what we did. We found a vest from a craft store, added a sticker to a plastic hard hat, and turned a fabric apron into a tool belt.
- hat
- vest
- belt/ apron
- plastic tools
- measuring tape
- building toys
In my recent toy purge to donate to a local charity, I got rid of all our plastic tools and the work bench. I didn’t know at the time this awesome construction vehicle would be coming to play. Talk about bad timing, however, I found that we had a robot construction kit which included a plastic wrench and some bolts, so the kids have pretended they were building this those. Go through your own toys and see how you can repurpose them to go with the theme of play.
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Abigail Gibson says
I like Pinkie Pie the best.
Margaret Smith says
Rainbow Dash is my favorite Little Pony
Marlene V says
Rainbow Dash
Heather Swanson says
I like Rainbow Dash
Calvin F. says
rarity or pinkie pie
Beth Rees says
We like rainbow dash
Beth Rees says
I love the fire truck
Jennifer R Kupko says
I would have to go with the 18 wheeler truck because ever since our son was in the Make A Wish Truck Convoy parade he loves the trucks.
Andrea Amy says
I am most interested in the fire truck 😀
Donna L says
I would the Antsy Pants Vehicle Kit – 4×4 .
Jennylyn Gross says
the fire truck one
Victoria Scott says
The Market Stand looks really neat!
Victoria Scott says
I commented on https://makingofamom.com/craft-stick-octopus-craft/ 🙂
Trisha Burgess says
My son would love the school bus!
rosemary says
wow
rosemary says
Pinkie Pie
Lauren U says
I like the Train kit.
Dana Matthews says
My Same would love the train!
Audrey Stewart says
The fire truck or the school bus.
heidi c. says
Pinkie Pie or rainbow dash as my girls love MLP!
Linda Madden says
I like the school bus!
Tiff Cho says
rainbow dash! 🙂
Rachel Browning says
The school bus my son has always loves school buses.
Shane A says
The Market stand would be a fun one. My niece loves to pretend she’s a shop owner and we are the customers.
Shane A says
Link to my other post comment. https://makingofamom.com/saturdays-chicken-recipe/#comment-133718
Nidhi Chauhan says
I am most interested in fire truck for my little fireman.
Jessi Housel says
My daughter looked over all the Antsy Pants options and overwhelmingly declared that the Antsy Pants Vehicle Kit – School Bus was the best. She started kindergarten this year and loves school.
Kathy Pease says
I like the Antsy Pants Vehicle Kit – Fire Truck
Jessi Housel says
Read and made a comment on https://makingofamom.com/10-things-wish-knew-took-disney-cruise/#comment-133723 . Thanks for sharing!
Jennifer H. says
I like the construction one.
Meme says
I also like the antsy pants train kit
John H. says
I would say the train.
Amy Deeter says
I like Rainbow Dash the best out of them
Samantha Martin says
We love the fire truck !!
Elsie Mangeri says
The construction or the train kit – both cute- would be great for dramatic play in any of the 6 pre School classrooms at my school!!