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3 Reasons To Encourage Girls & Boys Costumes for Dress-Up and Pretend

3 Reasons To Encourage Girls & Boys Costumes for Dress-Up and Pretend

Here at Teetot, we are proud to offer a diverse array of girls and boys costumes that are designed not just for Halloween wear, but for all seasons of pretend play wear. Dressing up in costumes is an incredibly important type of play that we strongly believe every child needs to partake in. The following is a look at just three important reasons why parents should either step back or actively encourage dress-up and pretend play by purchasing girls or boys costumes: 3 Reasons Dress-Up & Pretend Play Is Important Improve communication skills. It's important not to just focus on what physical type...

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Tips for Encouraging Imagination: Fireman Dress Up & Play

Tips for Encouraging Imagination: Fireman Dress Up & Play

  It's incredibly important to foster your kid's imagination and dress up role play for reasons that include (but are not limited to) building confidence, improving communication, and encouraging curiosity and interest in the world around them. While every child is different, there are some universal types of role play that most children will engage in at some point and one such type is the classic fireman dress up. Why Fireman Dress Up Is So Popular Amongst Children Children often get obsessed over one idea for a period of time before latching onto another idea, which involves passions about certain types of costumes...

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Why Kids & Adults Should Embrace Police-Oriented Costumes (like the SWAT Team Costume)

Why Kids & Adults Should Embrace Police-Oriented Costumes (like the SWAT Team Costume)

Sometimes kids know exactly what they want to dress up as and you know exactly where to buy or how to make the costume to make their wants become reality. But more often, things aren't so easy. Sometimes kids have ten thousand ideas but can't settle on one, and other times, you head to your area big box store and browse through the rows upon rows of costumes and your kid doesn't like any one of them. For these situations, kids can do with a bit of direction and one great direction to go is with law enforcement-oriented costumes like the Teetot SWAT...

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Want To Promote Patriotic Play? Consider These Special Forces Costume Ideas

Want To Promote Patriotic Play? Consider These Special Forces Costume Ideas

You don't have to have a military kid to have a kid who wants to dress up and be patriotic, to want to dress up and play in some type of special forces costume. While some kids love to play-act as a costumed superhero from their favorite comic book, many others prefer to look up and aspire to those heroes they see around them. If you have a child that wants to be a hero, to play as a character or career that they can actually aspire to become, then encourage it! There are a ton of fantastic patriotic-themed kid...

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How Dress Up Clothes Can Help Shape Your Child’s Future

How Dress Up Clothes Can Help Shape Your Child’s Future

When a child dresses up, it may seem innocuous and purely for playtime, but the roles they assume in play can often help shape their futures. After all, endless toys today are dedicated to career exploration for children, all of which may guide them down a certain path of discovery for their future. Here, we’ll take a look at the ways that dress up clothes can help your child determine their professional interests. Children get exposure to different types of careers. The more exposure a child has to diverse professional opportunities, the better equipped they may be for the future...

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