Pretend to be the boy who never grew up. (Woolworths Peter Pan Dressing Up Costume)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Woolworths Peter Pan Dressing Up Costume
Date:	12/12/06 (516 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good costume

Disadvantages: A little expensive

Peter pan

My daughter bought my grandson Adrian aged 4 a Peter Pan dressing up costume from Woolworths and when we visited last he put it on to play. This dressing up costume costs £15.00. This costume comes in two sizes 3-4 years and 5 to seven years.
This is a Ladybird brand costume made with100 polyester. And is sponge clean only.

Adrian likes dressing up usually as a fireman, but he had seen a Peter Pan film recently and my daughter thought the costume cute.
Adrian dressed in the green tunic top, green trousers and boots a belt around his waist, put on the Peter Pan hat that has a feather in it and pranced around with the soft knife provided with the set and saved his 9 month old sister. He enjoyed playing in this outfit and although I am not sure that he really was pretending to be Peter Pan he just danced around to charm his Nanna, we did take the knife away from him as we did not want to encourage him to play with a knife pretending to cut.
I thought the outfit fairly well made and I could see it would be a good aid to pretend play, or as a costume in a junior play. Dressings up clothes are good for encouraging and learning dressing skills.
Adrian has an understanding of pretend and play, what is real and what is play. I think that dressing up to be someone else helps that understanding develop. Playing dressed up helps to develop his imagination and creativity, storytelling and drama skills.

Although this dressing up costume is about a fantasy figure I think pretend play is good for a Childs development and understanding. Playing and reliving real life experiences prepares them for those events and also helps children rationalise and come to terms with them.

Overall I think this is a cute little costume, Shame I can not add a photo of Adrian in it on dooyoo.

Summary: A Peter Pan dressing up soutfit