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Easy Dress Up Station

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Are dress up clothes taking over your house?

I have enough issues with regular laundry to then pile on top a bunch of princess costumes, my house was becoming a wreck quickly.

I wanted to create an area in our play room that would be fun to play and use but that would also create some organization for all of the stuff! This easy dress up station was just the right fit for our little princess.

Simple Princess Dress Up Station

Organized Dress Up and Role Play Station for Kids

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By creating some order to our princess mess, I found that my daughter is actually playing with this stuff!

Before she either couldn’t find her stuff because it was wherever she dropped it or I had shoved it in the bottom of the closet in an attempt to clean up. Now that she can easily see her pretty dresses and jewels, she usually becomes Belle or Sophia once or twice a week!

And if LOL Surprise Dolls are also becoming tiny little residents in your home, check out this LOL Organizer.

What you Need for the Easy Dress Up Station:

Adjustable Garment Rack

Princess Wall Art

Wood Wall Clear Knob Organizer – I got mine at Hobby Lobby and can’t find the exact same thing. These are really pretty and these are reasonably priced and would be cute.

Lots of Princess dresses, play jewelry and little girl high heels.

Setting Up the Easy Dress Up Station

The adjustable garment rack took less than 15 minutes to put together and that was the first thing that I did. Once that was ready, my daughter helped me hang up all of her princess dresses.

The dress up area isn’t just limited to princess costumes. She can dress up as a chef, vet, or a girly super hero.

Dress Up Organization for playroom

I stored extra dress up clothes and play shoes at the bottom of the rack. (Don’t mind that missing Elsa from the blue shoe! Hey, they still work!)

Next, I had my daughter stand in front of where the mirror would go. I did this because I wanted it to be a “kid friendly” mirror. (not hung so high that she wouldn’t even be able to see her face)!

We hung the mirror so that she could see her full princess ball gown in all it’s glory.

The princess wall art was hung level with the top of the mirror. The hooks went right under the art so that she could easily reach her purses and jewels.

Little Girl Jewelry Organizer

I set our vanity next to the easy dress up station so that she can move right on to hair and make up once she gets dressed. I love that this area provides a fun play area for kids to use their imagination.

Plus it helps to get the princess dress mess off my floor.

Princess Dress up Station with Step 2 Fantasy Vanity

If your pretend play costumes are causing chaos, I hope you try this super easy dress up station solution for your playroom!

Once your playroom is in order, check out this bathtub toy organizer hack so that you can see the bottom of your tub again!

Princess Easy Dress up area in playroom

Dollar Tree 100th Day of School Old Lady Costume

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Create a cute Dollar Tree 100th Day of School Old Lady Costume for your elementary school child. 

Dollar Tree 100th Day of School Old Lady Costume Idea

Some things you start to look forward to years before they actually happen. Even the small things and the 100th day of school was one of those things for me. 

I remember years ago seeing  outfits and costumes on Pinterest celebrating this mid year milestone and thinking it was so cute. I was excited to play dress up with my little ones. And today was my daughter’s first 100th day of school. 

We had a good time and a lot of laughs this morning preparing our little old lady for her 100th day of school. And it went really smoothly thanks to a quick trip to the store and a tiny bit of planning. 

This Dollar Tree 100th day of school old lady costume is easy and cheap when you combine it with a couple of closet staples! 

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Is your daughter’s costume stash overflowing? Organize it with this simple Princess Dress Up Station. 

Dollar Tree 100th Day of School Old Lady Costume

You only need a couple of Dollar Tree staples in order to create an elderly dress up outfit. 

Here is what I picked up at the Dollar store:

  • Reading Glasses 
  • Beaded Glasses Lanyard (I found these on the glasses display)
  • Women’s Pantyhose 
  • Floral Infinity Scarf

So for $4, I had the start of a great old lady outfit. 

Dollar Tree Supplies for 100th Day of School Elderly Costume

Things we had on hand:

Creating A Great 100 Year Old Dress Up Day Outfit

Start by popping out the lenses on the reading glasses & attaching the lanyard.  

Next, have your child dress in a floral top or dress, a cardigan and leggings if it is cold out. 

Cut the top off of the pantyhose so that the legs separate. Add a stocking to each leg and roll it down, old lady style. 

Now you need to get some old lady hair going. 

100th Day of School Old Lady Outfit

I used a curling wand to create tight curls at the base of my daughter’s head. Once you create those curls, spray them like crazy with hair spray so that they stay. 

I also added some baby powder at the roots of her hair and around her face to mimic grays. Spray some more hairspray to get the powder to stick. 

The infinity scarf was the last part of the hair plan. I wanted to wrap the floral scarf around her head and tie it. You know how old lady’s do that? But my old lady wanted no part of it so we had to skip that part. 

Throw on some pearls as you are walking out the door & your Dollar Tree 100th Day of School old lady costume will be the hit of the classroom. 

And your wallet and your sanity will thank you. Cheap, Easy and fun. The perfect trio for dress up day at school! And now I have to go plan something for tomorrow. 

100th Day of School Old Lady Outfit

Tomorrow marks day 101. So of course they are supposed to dress up as a 101 dalmatian. 

This mama loves dressing up but also wonders who thought two back to back dress up days was a good idea!?