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Make-Believe Hospital

Materials

• Stuffed animals
• Pillows
• Blankets
• White clothes for uniforms
• Thermometer
• Bandages
• Medicine measuring spoon
• Sling (cloth diaper or other material folded into a triangle)

Directions

1. Using friends, stuffed animals, or cooperative parents for patients, help your child set up a hospital or doctor's office.
2. Lay pillows and blankets in a corner of the room.
3. Give the "nurse" or "doctor" white clothing for his uniform. Show him how to take temperatures with a thermometer, bandage arms and legs, and give medicine.
4. Make a sling from a flat cloth diaper or other piece of material folded into a triangle.
5. Take turns playing the doctor, nurse, patient, and visitor.