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Dressing the Part
As we’ve been keen to stress before, interactive role play, particularly sessions lead and devised by the students themselves, is a highly important component of children’s early academic careers. We’ve explored the benefits of role play items such as classroom theatres and puppet shows at length, but would like to use this opportunity to explore our highly affordable range of dressing up items and other interactive classroom supplies, to help you ensure your students are getting the social and academic development they require.
A New Look
Dressing up, using costumes and allowing your children to take on new personas is a great way to educate them about their local environment. As a teacher, dressing up and role play items allow you to adhere to the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) aspects of the EYFS whilst engaging and interacting with your children. Our wide variety of dressing up costumes are designed to make learning about and replicating the wider world an immersive experience that all can get involved in. Using our range of costumes, children can become doctors, nurses and police officers, gaining an understanding of their crucial roles in society by actively recreating them. A number of our dressing up pieces are deliberately gender neutral, allowing children to move away from traditional notions like “policemen” or “postmen” and understand that these roles can be fulfilled equally by both men and women.
Life on the Wild Side
Dressing up, however, doesn’t always have to be a learning experience, it doesn’t always have to have a social agenda – sometimes dressing up can just be fun, a sentiment reflected in our variety of unconventional classroom supplies. Our fantastic range of animal suits are a great way for children aged between three and five years to engage in creative play; with our variety of exciting dressing up items, they can become anything from tigers and lions to bees and other insects, allowing them to properly indulge their imaginative function. We even offer a number of costumes and dressing up pieces specifically designed for outdoor play.
Dress Down Days
Aside from their obvious social and creative benefits, playing dress up and engaging in role play carries a wealth of other important benefits for your students. Through role play scenarios, children are able to develop confidence, learning to speak and act in front of others with greater ease. Imaginative play also puts an increased emphasis on the child as the leader of the session, allowing them to develop a sense of autonomy whilst the teacher acts as a participant. Browse though our variety of dressing up materials online today, and start embracing role play as a core part of your early years education programmes.
Originally written 14 January 2016