All the DAZE Productions: Prop Boxes - Themes that begin with "D"

Include the following collections of objects and materials for children to create, discover, and use for
imaginary play. Store collections in boxes or baskets to be accessible at any time (indoors or outdoors)
for children to enhance their dramatic play.

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D
DRESS UP BOX
One of the easiest ways to let your kids get inventive is to provide a dress up box full of old clothes. Let
them experiment with taking on different roles by providing a variety of clothing choices. Hats, shoes,
coats, shirts, boas, streamers, fancy dresses, suit coats, and ties. Add accessories such as canes,
glasses, or jewelry.

Dancers
Scarves, streamers, tutus (make your own with colourful tulle - fold in half and sew a one inch pocket
along fold - insert elastic and gather: tie elastic at side to form a circle), tap shoes, ballet slippers, vests
with colorful and noise making bobbles attached, slip-on cloth slippers with bells attached, dancing cane

Extended Ideas
Ballerina Costume It is possible to make cute costumes from crepe paper. For a ballerina cut a double
piece wide enough for the waist. Put a hole in each end and threat a ribbon there to tie this on. Then
measure from the waist to the knee and cut several layers of crepe to that size making sure you cut 4
times the width you need. Then pleat this and attach each pleat by stapling it to the waist band. When
you are done you can cut a scallop hem
and fluff up. The child wears a leotard underneath and the crepe paper skirt over it.

Detective
different sized magnifying glasses,

Dinosaur Kit
Books, Fossil, Giant Floor Puzzle, Foam Dinosaur Stamps, Stamp Pad, Dinosaur Puppets, Plastic
Dinosaurs, Plastic Dinosaur Bone cut-outs (or chicken bones) Dinosaur Skeletons, Plastic Eggs that
open in the middle (fill with small Dinosaurs), Dinosaur Concentration Game, Mini Dinosaurs, Snap
Cards Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Match Me Game, play dough, flash cards, dinosaur counters, cookie
cutters, CD-ROM, Movie Videos, Cassettes,make paper towel tube binoculars, Pictures of dinosaurs,
hard hats (adapt by covering with brown fabric to be palentologists hats), simple head bands with a
dinosaur head on them, a green scarf tied to a belt could be a simple dinosaur tail.

Tyrannosaurus Rex Snouts
Need: Scissors, Tape, Plastic foam or paper cup with bottom removed, four 2 1/2 inch pieces of rickrack
or Zig zag pieces of material or construction paper, two 24 inch pieces of yarn
Directions:
1) Starting at the bottom of the cup cut 1 wedge out of the cup. This is 1 side of the mouth. Cut another
wedge out of the cup on the side opposite the first wedge.
2) For the teeth tape rickrack to the outer edges of the mouth. Decorate the snout anyway you like.
3) Tie a piece of yarn to each corner of the mouth. Put the snout up to your nose and tie the yarn
around your head.

DOCTOR
scrubs, or large mens dress shirts, stethoscope, tongue depresses, cot, old x-rays, paper,
pencils,masks, bag, blanket, band aids, white gauze rolls,paper nurse's hats, surgical masks/booties,
stethoscope , cotton balls, band aids, scale, white aprons or lab coat, small flashlight , hot water bottle,
gauze, rubber gloves , dolls, doll's beds, syringes (without needles), empty medicine bottles , hospital
"gown", medical bag, x-rays , thermometer, RX pad, files, old crutches (small), Plastic doctor kit toy
stethoscope, thermometer, blood pressure gauge, real bandages and band aid boxes, Rubbing Alcohol
bottles (hot glue caps on) Old medicine or prescription bottles (hot glue caps on), Child sized hospital
gown, Small sized nurses/surgeons scrubs or hats, Note pads (for prescriptions), pen or pencil if age
appropriate, telephone for taking appointments, Cot or mattress for examination table, Real leg and
wrist braces, Real arm slings, Stickers to give to the 'patients', tounge depressors, plastic toy knife for
scalpel (for surgery),

Doctor's Bags
Materials: Black construction paper, Red construction paper, Stapler, White chalk, and items such as
band-aids or cotton balls.
Directions: Fold the black paper in half & draw a doctor bag on it so that the fold is the bottom of the
bag. Cut it out and staple the sides together. Cut a red cross out of the red paper & glue it on the bag.
Write Dr. ____ on the other side of the bag. Put cotton balls, band-aids, & gauze pads whatever else
you would find in a doctor bag that the kids could play with.

Doctor Hat
Materials: paper, foil
Directions: Make headbands for doctors white strips then a circle for the center that the children cover
with pieces of tin foil for the light (mirror).