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A few weeks agone we were excited to get an awesome "Let's Play Doctor" Kit in the mail service from Jessica Hipp Designs.

Jessica Hipp Designs specializes in mitt crafted children'due south toys to promote the development of pretend play and early learning skills!

My iii-year-old girl loved looking through the package carefully and pulling out each piece of the pretend play doctor set. She has really started having fun with pretend play in the past six months and loves the opportunity to clothes up and play with me, her friends, and her big brother!

As many of you know from the various felt and no-run up projects we share here on Toddler Approved, I am not a seamstress, and then I absolutely love finding good quality items fabricated by other talented people for my kids to play with! Jessica Hipp Designs has so many fun pretend play props that you can purchase for your kids or as gifts for family and friends.

In this post I'1000 going to...

tell you a few more than details well-nigh Jessica'south "Let'south Play Md" kit
share some of the fun means we've been playing with our "Let's Play Doc" Kit (and how you lot can bring together in at home with a few free printables)
and share an Awesome giveaway and coupon lawmaking with you from Jessica Hipp Designs

Did you know that pretend play builds social and emotional skills, helps with language development, builds thinking skills and too nurtures the imagination in little kids? It is really important!

One of the best means to help young kids get interested in pretend play is past putting together a collection of pretend play props and costumes and then office-play with them! You can even gear up up pretend play spots in your home or preschool. Hither are a few examples of pretend play stations I've set in our preschool and in our home for my kids.

Here are the dissimilar items from Jessica's "Let's Play Md" Kit that we've been using:

Felt Doctor'south Bag Kit (which includes one felt bandage wrap, four cotton balls, one wooden tongue depressor and three felt ring-aids)

Felt Ring-aide Kit (which includes 10 felt ring-aids within a white medical handbag with a velcro closure)

Felt Child's Toy "Head Mirror" (This piece really makes the kit extra awesome. My daughter felt like a real doctor once it was on!)

Felt Middle Chart (which includes 1 felt center cover)

Felt Toy Chest X-Ray

What I think is nifty well-nigh Jessica'south products is that they all utilize multiple layers of cloth to allow decorative stitching to remain hidden. The multiple layers besides increases the stability and durability of the items! The pretend play kit feels very durable and heavy duty unlike some of the more flimsy products we've purchased before that are cleaved correct away past active and curious kids. All of the items can also be machine-washed as long as you follow Jessica's careful instructions! All nosotros needed was a piffling painter's tape to adhere the wall charts to the walls and we were ready to play.

After we checked out each of the objects in the kit we fix a simple Doctor'southward office for our blimp animals and started playing!

To get started we used a cardboard box and some paper to create an exam table for the animals! Nosotros likewise grabbed a petty table and chair for the md to utilise.

Our real doctor uses a computer at present to input all of her data during appointments... but since I love to add a writing element to pretend play activities, nosotros printed off and decorated a little Physician'due south Notebook instead.

Nosotros grabbed stickers and our favorite pens to assistance us personalize the notebook. I office of the notebook was used for prescriptions, one for new patients, and another part was used for notes. Y'all can download all iii printable pages below so that y'all tin can make your own Pretend Play Doctor's Notebook!

Pretend Play Doctor's Notebook {FREE PRINTABLE}

I included about four of each folio in our Doctor's notebook and so stapled them together at the meridian. You can as well staple a thin piece of cardboard to the dorsum to make the pad easier to write on and more than sturdy.

Physician'south Prescription Pad

New Patient Form

Doctor's Note Pad

Nosotros also created a 8.5x11 Doctor's Office Sign that nosotros personalized with stickers and markers and hung upwards past our role.

Click hither for the blank Doctor'southward Part printable template

Equally nosotros played, we talked about all of the dissimilar ailments that we could have or that our animals could have and how we could make them feel better. My daughter's accented favorite solution was always a band-aid!! She loved stacking the band-aids and plastering them all over her animals.

Since my daughter was then fascinated by the band-aids we also create a really basic counting ring-aids game that yous could do with the felt ring-aids in Jessica's collection or only with real (unused and unopened) ring-aids you accept lying effectually the house.

Band-assistance counting game

To play you demand at least 6 band-aids forth with a die and a small box. This game is perfect for niggling ones who are learning to count and say numbers 0-6.

Version 1: To play you scatter the band-aids on the table and and so roll the die. Whatever number the die lands on is the number of band-aids you need to stick dorsum in the box. Then you lot just dump the band-aides out of the box and curl again. My kids always seem to love the dumping part the best.

Version 2: You can as well grab a blimp creature and when you roll the die put that many band-aids on your stuffed animal!! Then shake them off... scroll again... and put more ring-aids on your blimp creature.

Let's Play Medico Kit Giveaway and Coupon Code!

Like what you saw? Jessica Hipp Designs is offer ten% off any items ordered from her Etsy shop with the coupon code TODDLERAPPROVED10! This offer volition be valid from Fri, March vii until Sabbatum, March 15th at 12:00am PST.

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Jessica is also offer a special "Let's Play Doctor Felt Pretend Play" giveaway gift to One Toddler Approved reader!

Our giveaway winner will exist able to chooseThree of the items in the Let's Play Medico Kit to have specially made for them! (Just to review, hither are the items y'all can pick from: Felt Doctor'due south Pocketbook Kit, Felt Band-aide Kit, Felt Child's Toy "Head Mirror," Felt Eye Chart, and a Felt Toy Chest X-Ray.

Here's how you tin can win...

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Disclosure: We received a Let'due south Play Medico Kit for costless from Jessica Hip Designs to review and giveaway to you!

Thanks Jessica for all of the fun we had playing with our kit! It is awesome!

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