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The Best Boys Dress Up Costumes

January 25th, 2011


Dress-ups aren’t just for girls! Playing dress up is one the best ways for imaginative, interact play for children. Dressing up in costumes for boys is a great way for boys to develop masculine personality traits and discover the personalities. Besides that, it’s just plain old fun!

What little boy doesn’t want to play firefighter? A firefighter coat and hat is one the most essential dress up items for boys. To make a more complete dress up kit, sew a simple tube for a hose. Or, use a scrap garden hose instead! Your little firefighter will have fun running around putting out fires. In the summertime, this is a particularly fun way to play pretend. Let your little boy use a real hose with water instead. If he has outside cars and houses, he can wander around performing rescue missions!

Arrrr, matey! A pirate costume is an easy one to put together. Simple jagged pants, an eye patch, and a pirate cape is all you need to make this costume a hit. There are an assortment of weapons pirates like to use, like toy guns, hooks, and swords. Your little pirate will have fun making his toys walk the plank as he plays captain in his pirate cape. A fun game for pirates to play is “sunken ship.” The ground in this game is poisonous water or some sort of treacherous ground, and the pirates can’t touch it! Let them use old bits of carpet or rags to get from place to place. (The fabric is floating wood). Treasure chests, treasure maps, and parrots are all great companions to the pirate cape as accessories for a pirate costume. Put some items together and let your little one set sail!

A prince in King Arthur’s court? A Medieval jousting knight? A prince rescuing a princess? Knight costumes for boys provide a variety of playtime options for boys. Assembling a knight costume for boys is simple-most costumes come with an armor, a sword, shield, and helmet. The basics of this costume, like the sword and the shield, are what really make the costume. Let your girls dress up in the princess costume and run with boys in the knight costumes. Pull out the toy horses and flags, the possibilities are endless!

Is it a bird? A plane? No wait, it’s Superman! A superhero cape is the simplest dress up costume for boys and is one of the most universal. Many capes are coming in reversible patterns, allowing for kids to have more costumes for one piece. Superhero capes include Superman, Batman, Robin, and Thor. Generic superhero capes, often an off-shoot of a superman cape, are often used. This way your little boy can pretend to be any type of superhero he can conjure up!

Firefighters aren’t the only dress-ups that encourage vocational options. Police officers are another hometown-hero option! Plus, a police officer costume allows for the classic boys game “cops and robbers.” A hat is a great additional piece for a police costume, as is a flashlight! The flashlight will allow the boys to feel like they are really solving crime and figuring things out.

Boys dress-up costumes will allow for hours of creative play. Other favorite options are a Chef’s costumes (a simple white coat and hat), a cowboy costume (chaps, gun, and bandanna), and a doctor (white coat and stethoscope). Remember, playing dress up is all about the imagination! So add random odds and ends into your dress up box, like old wallets, glasses, ties, and belts-and let your little boy create memories and fun!

By: Shelby Strong

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Shelby is the mother of 2 girls and 1 boy and lives in Orem, Utah. She also runs a home-based business called My Cute Dressups at http://www.mycutedressups.com that sells Princess dress up clothes and other fun pretend play items for kids, toddlers, and even teenagers and adult princess costumes. She also has an ebay store and a local store run by the same name. She has seen a noticeable difference in her kids after encouraging dress up play. Visit her website for more biographical information or to see her exciting line of Princess Costumes like Cinderella dresses, Snow White Costumes, Sleeping Beauty dresses, wedding dress up, Medieval Princess, Yellow Beauty, Winter Beauty, Rapunzel dress, doll clothes that fit American Girl, 18 inch doll clothes. She has a Cinderella doll dress that matches exactly with the girl Cinderella dress as well as matching Snow White doll dress.



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Fairy Princess Party Games

January 24th, 2011


These two fairy princess party games are a great way to keep the kids entertained at the party.

The first fairy princess party game is called ‘fairy tales’. Before the party make up a list of different common fairy tales on slips of paper and put them in a hat or bag. Then put up a sheet of white fabric and behind it set up a light so anyone standing between the sheet and the light will cast a decent shadow. Have everyone get into groups of two or three and have each group pull one fairy tale from the hat. Tell each group that they will have to perform the fairy tale behind the sheet. And the audience or the rest of the teams will try and guess what fairy tale they are watching. You can have them perform the entire fairy tale or just a memorable scene depending on the amount of time available.

Be sure to give each group plenty of time to plan out what scene/s they will perform from the fairy tale or even do a little research on the story if they aren’t familiar with it.

This next game called ‘Fairy Advice Columnist’ is a fun writing game that can produce riotous results at your Fairy Princess party. Get ready for a laugh. Give everyone piece of colored paper and a slip of plain white paper and a pencil. Tell everyone to describe a typical scenario that a person would write to an advice columnist about and finish it with a question seeking advice. Then they should pop that into the hat.

Mix up the questions and have everyone draw a question without looking at it. Then on their colored paper they should write down their advice for how to deal with the situation. Put the colored sheets of paper in a different hat and place the slips back in their old hat. Mix both up and have each player draw one question slip and one colored piece of paper at random, then they read each out loud to the group for a few laughs. This works best if you tell the players to try and be as vague and outrageous as they can be in their answers and you’ll have a great Fairy Princess party.

By: Gail Leino

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Mrs. Party… Gail Leino takes a common sense approach to planning and organizing events, celebrations and holiday parties with unique ideas for Fairy Princess party supplies and fun free educational party games. She explains proper etiquette and living a healthy life while also teaching organizational skills and fun facts. The Party Supplies Shop has lots of party ideas with hundreds of free holiday printable games and free birthday party activities. Over 100 adorable Party Themes to fit your birthday celebration, holiday event, or “just because” parties is at the Party Theme Shop. Party themes include cartoon characters, sports, movie, TV shows, luau, western, holidays, and unique crazy fun theme ideas.



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Playing BMX Games Online – BMX Boy

January 23rd, 2011


Fans of BMX bikes are constantly looking for ways to engage in the BMX bike riding experience. Much like the kids in southern California once did in the early seventies when the rage for BMX bikes began. Nowadays, kids are turning to their computer screen online, looking for a virtual terrain where to ride their BMX bikes. These virtual worlds have started to become available in the form of free online BMX games. These games offer the player a virtual BMX bike, a ramp, street or other freestyle BMX setting where they can live out the most daring bike stunts without getting as much as a scratch in their arm. Though some BMX game titles go all out in terms of detail and complicated instructions, others aim to offer an abundant amount of choices while keeping it simple enough to play by most audiences. A good example of such an application would Paper Boy BMX game.

In Paper Boy BMX online game, the user plays a paper boy doing his route in a city setting. Although simple to follow, this online BMX game features all the bells and whistles of most of the more detailed games. The use of controls include the arrow keys to move the character in either direction. The numeric keys 1 through 9 will activate special tricks. Pressing the spacebar make the character jump, and combined with the UP arrow key will result in a change in direction. The player will earn points by performing high and difficult jumps; however, he will lose up to one thousand points each time he falls.

Game play is very straight forward, although the player will feel as if he stuck at certain trouble spots in the game. For instance, when coming across a wheel barrel the player won’t be able to jump over it swiftly unless he has gathered some momentum along the way. If he attempts to jump over it while standing right in front of it, it is likely that he will fall and lose one thousand points. Thus, it will take some time and practice before the player has gotten a grip on the application and starts testing the numeric keys for flips and tricks. Another catchy trouble spot is that every time you jump, the character will naturally lean forward and fall unless there is some user intervention.

Graphics and special effects are just enough to keep the game attractive, yet fast loading for older computers and slower internet connections. This BMX game online is suitable for all ages, with no violent scenes, blood spills or foul language. It is a rather simple game to play, yet with enough complexity and difficulty to keep the player interested. It will surely be a source of great fun for BMX bike fans everywhere.

By: Damian Cross

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Enter the exciting world of bmx games online. Try all your favorite stunts to play bmx games like the the pros at BMXgames123.com



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