Clothing Study

Welcome to our classroom Target and the Rub ‘a Dub Laundry Mat! (Dramatic play area)

In our Target store, students took turns role playing as a cashier or customer. Some customers used pre-made shopping lists to find the items to purchase while shopping with their carts. Click here for the shopping list.

The sales clerk rang up and bagged the items for the customer :-) Then the customer would return the items by sorting the clothing items on the correct shelf: shorts, t-shirts, pants, hats, shoes, etc. Students even practiced putting clothes on hangers for fine motor practice. The customer and cashier would trade roles. Some of the Target employees enjoyed dressing Pete The Cat and other dolls as mannequins for display models :-)

Target Shopping List: Some of the shopping lists were generic (t-shirt, pants, etc). Accommodations: For my early childhood special education students, I took pictures of actual clothes in the classroom and put them on the shopping list. I also narrowed the physical field of shirts/pants, etc to make it easier for the students to fine (match) the same item their list to the items at the store.

Target Fashion Designer (Art Center): The students created their own clothing outfits. Each designer picked from a variety of art materials (ie stickers, construction paper, do-a-dots, etc) as part of the art center. Each student created and attached their designer logo tag to place on “New Styles Coming Soon,” clothesline.

Click here for the freebie clothing template for shirt, dress, hat, and UNDERWEAR.

For a family projects, students designed their own clothes (LINK to TPT)

Brown Paper Bag Outfits: We also made our own actual designer clothes out of brown paper bags. A local store donated the brown bags! :-) When we competed this unit in November, the students created these adorable Turkey outfits! When we completed this activity in the spring, the students made their own vests. We also made police officer uniforms.

At the Rub ‘a Dub Laundry Mat, the students practiced all the stages of cleaning laundry. At this center, there was different types of soap (bar, powder, liquid and dryer sheets), The students sorted clothes from dirty to clean. Some students cleaned the dirty clothes with a bucket of water with soap, while using a wash board. They had a blast with this sensory experience of adding soap (picked bar, powder or liquid) and scrubbed the clothes!! used an old wash board complete with soap. Then each student would wring out the wet clothes and hang them dry on our clothing line. :-)

Some students used the ‘modern’ washer and dryer. They pretended to use soap and felt cloth dryer sheets. :-) The students would count between 10-30 (depending on the skill level) prior to switching from washer to dryer!

Once the clothes were washed and dried, they would bring them to our Target store to sell. :-)

Some of the students loved IRONING the clothes too!!

We had a blast dancing to the Jim Gill Washing Machine

At the academic tables, we learned about clothing color, clothing size, textures, etc. (LINK to TPT) Clothes Pattern Color Clothes Counting Clothes

Culminating Activity: FASHION SHOW!!! The students were able to wear anything they wanted for the fashion show! The fashion show was complete with a red carpet (used red paper) and back ground display. For our classroom fashion show, the students that were waiting their turn, pretended to take pictures with their phone camera (PHONE CAMERA TEMPLATE FREEBIE). We had another Fashion Show at the conclusion of the school with parents to watch.