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By cdg

My Dollar Store was a life saver last year! I had mostly boys & the dolls just weren't cutting it with them for dramatic play! I was able to pick up all kinds of plastic hats (baseball, race car driver, fireman, construction)
for a buck each. I was also able to pick up tool sets of hammers & nails, screw drivers & screws that came with plastic "wood" with holes for the kids to drilll or hammer into.
In our school we were always on the "aware" for the possibility of head lice being tranferred through cloth play clothes that went over the head. We kept our hats to the plastic variety and clothes to those

that could be wraped around the waist (aprons for "house", tool belts or tool pouches for "workshop"), thereby avoiding the head area completely. Some hardware stores sell (or give away) cloth tool pouches and aprons can be easily made from a square piece of material with a long strip sewn across the top for tying.
This should be enough to get you started!