Benefits of playing with costumes in childhood.

• Boosts imagination:
  

Nobody doubts the powerful imagination that children have, and it is because they have no limits because they know very little about the world and can let their minds flow without structures. This allows them to make unexpected connections for adults.

• Allows self-knowledge:

When they decide to be firefighters or heroines, what they are doing is putting themselves in someone else's shoes and experimenting with new ideas and behaviors. In this way they explore new situations and can identify what they like or don't like, knowing themselves.

• Strengthens relationships:

Empathy is the cognitive ability to perceive what another may feel. Playing dress-up helps practice empathy. By becoming a knight or a princess, children put themselves in someone else's shoes and that strengthens the ability to understand what others may feel.

• Improves communication:

When children wear costumes they inevitably come into contact with language, not just verbal but body language. A lion will not have the same posture or movements as a witch. In addition, at the level of speech they will have to anticipate what the character they play would say and surely appeal to certain expressions that they associate with him. We encourage you to tell them lots of fairy tales and fantasy stories, this will lay the foundation for their communication skills.

1) What if your little one doesn't like or doesn't want to dress up? Well, as you already know that not all of us like the same movies, not all children like to play with costumes. Perhaps it may happen that they are scared of one, the important thing is that if the child is afraid they are not forced to use it. The best thing is that they themselves choose the costumes or the characters they want to become.

2) Take advantage of the dress-up game with your child to use and stimulate your own imagination. We 100% agree that in childhood it is fundamental, but in adulthood imagination is still important. Do you need to generate ideas? Well… imagination is the key to creativity.

If you want to take advantage of all the benefits of playing with costumes, we encourage you to create the costume that your child will wear. And if he participates in the creation, can you imagine how far they could go together? To get inspired and take some shortcuts, use Pinterest. And if you don't have an account yet... this would be a good start! Activating an account is very simple and using it too, see this link and learn how to do it: Open an account on pinterest.

Well family, here we are today. We hope that this article has helped you to understand everything that a simple game can generate. We would love to read your experiences and if there is anything you have to add it will be welcome. If you liked it, you can also share it so that other families can read it. Happy Halloween!!

Arrivederci!