Dressups and Pretend Play

Pretend play helps build all sorts of practical skills like gross motor, fine motor, language, social skills, categorisation, and counting. Even better, dressups and pretend play can take us into another, bigger world.

You can use anything from cast off adult clothing and a sheet over the table to make a tent to some of the specially-made costumes, props, and cubby houses from the shops below:

• Ekidna Kidswear - Has some fabulous Teepees in a choice of colours - red, navy or hot pink stripe!
   
• Unique Kids - Stylish range of quality products for babies, boys and girls. They offer free gift wrapping and personalised message cards for easy gift giving. For kitchen, ironing, and cash register toys see Kitchen, Cooking & Pretend Play
   
• Young Minds - Educational children's products and toys catering for all children from newborn up. Based in Sydney, they offer free gift-wrapping, an Australia-wide parcel postage flat rate for educational toys and a combination of toys and DVDs. Rates are even less for Sydney metropolitan parcel postage and some DVD only purchases. See
  • Castles and Forts - Castles galore including  Excalibur, dragons, bowman, dragons, wizards, knights, horses, magicians and accessories including a battery ram.  
  • Fairy, Fairies, Fairyland
  • Le Toy Van Toys - Dolls houses, castles, fairies and furniture. Budkins by Le Toy Van are collectable wooden bendable figures. Play with them alone or with your Dolls House, Fairy castle, Castle, Fire Station, Farm or Hospital.
  • Outdoor Toys, Creative Play - Dressups, play sets, play books, and barnyard toys and figurines.
  • Pirates and Ships
     
• Costume Box - Thousands of fancy dress costumes for adults and kids for all occasions. Most costumes dispatched within 24 hours and all costumes displayed are in stock. Children's costumes include:
  

  Girls Costumes Fairies & Princesses Dancewear Girls Storybook & Fairytale Girls Movie & TV Characters Girls Halloween Girls Historical Girls Horror & Gothic

  Boys Costumes Boys Horror & Gothic Knights & Kings Boys Superheroes & Licensed Boys Movie & TV Characters Boys Historical Boys Halloween Boys Storybook & Fairytale

• Hats - A simple and easy way to excite imaginations and inspire fun games.
• Occupations - What do you want to be when you grow up? Costumes for firefighters, doctors, astronauts, chefs, nurses, and much more.
• Accessories - Wings and wands, swords and shields, moustaches and beards, capes, cloaks, and canes, and much more.
• They also have a range of play tents including:
  • Disney Princess Magic Pop Up Play Tent From Costumebox
    Magic awaits...we're all inside!Great pop up play tent, very light weight and can be folded for easy storage.Approx size - 900mm x 850mm (&approx 1100mm high)
  • Marvel Heroes Pop Up Play Tent From Costumebox
    Come to secret headquarters....we're all inside!Great pop up play tent, very light weight and can be folded for easy storage.  Base measurement; 750mm x 750mm.
  • Spiderman Pop Up Tent From Costumebox
    Spiderman Spiderman.  Does whatever a spider can...Great pop up play tent, very light weight and can be folded for easy storage.
  • Star Wars Magic Pop Up Tent From Costumebox
    The Force is inside!Great pop up play tent, very light weight and can be folded for easy storage.Approx size - 900mm x 850mm  (& approx 1100mm high)  
    
 
• Australia's Online Party Costumes Superstore - 100s of great costumes, masks & novelties delivered to your door anywhere in Australia. 
  • Masks - Face masks and party eye masks, feather masks, animal masks.
  • Boas
  • Body Art - Face paints and tubs of body paint.
  • Costumes - Dress-up angels, pirates, clowns, fairies, firemen and more for children.
  • Disguises - Hide behind a moustache or lots of hair... or go to the other extreme with a bald head wig.
  • Glasses - Dame Edna, Groucho spec and nose and others.
  • Hats - Dress up with hats and helmets.
  • Hula Skirts - Go Hawaiian with a flower bra, lei and hula skirt.
  • Wigs - From bald to dreadlocks, long, short, black and colourful.