“Wanna wear shorts! Don’t wanna wear jacket! Nooo hat!”

Sounds familiar? Then you probably have a toddler! They’re adorable, funny, and very, very stubborn.

We offer only weather and age-appropriate outfits, give them choice within those boundaries, and still, it is ten degrees below zero and your toddler wants to wear sandals!

We created a paper doll project that helps young children understand and choose weather-appropriate clothing in every season.

Materials

  • templates (you could also use photographs)
  • markers/crayons/pencils and stickers/glitter/etc.
  • scissors
  • laminate paper
  • adhesive Velcro strips

Instructions

1. First, print out the templates.  There are a number available but we went with these. You could also draw additional clothes (my daughter wanted a tutu for her bear).  Another option would be to use photographs of your children and their own clothing.

2. Color and decorate the bear and the clothes. It is interesting to notice that, even though we do not do a lot of coloring sheets, my daughter has internalized the rules for coloring in the lines and filling the white space whereas my son has not.

3. Cut out the shapes.

4. Laminate.  You can use the adhesive clear contact paper or, we headed over to The UPS Store and asked them to laminate for us.  The laminate process they use produces a nice, stiff, sturdy plastic.

5. Add velcro to the front of your bear and to the back of the clothes.

6. Dress your bear to match the weather!

Books to Help Toddlers Dress for the Day and the Weather

Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?: One of our favorite storybooks about getting dressed features the playful Jesse Bear. Throughout the day, from pajamas to playtime to lunch to bath to bedtime again, Jesse Bear shares what he’ll wear in fun, engaging rhymes.

Clementine’s Winter Wardrobe features a cat imagining all the clothes she will need for the winter–I think she has almost as many clothes as my daughter! The color pencil drawings give the book a sweet, dreamy look.

More Educational Laminating Fun

—GIVEAWAY!—

The UPS Store would like my readers to have the opportunity to experience the convenience for themselves. They have given me $250 worth of gift cards to give away!

Prizes:

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Disclosure: I am writing this post in part as a paid The UPS Store Brand Ambassador and in conjunction with the Lovin’ Logistics campaign at Collective Bias. All opinions stated here are my own and are not affected by compensation.

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120 thoughts on “Jesse Bear, Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear (And The UPS Store Giveaway)”

  1. I love the UPS Store. I do a lot of Amazon and eBay sales and buy a lot of my packing supplies there and drop off services.

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  2. My favorite thing about The UPS Store is the convenience. There’s a location just down the street from me, there’s rarely a long wait for service, and it’s right next to the post office, too, offering an easy alternative to mailing.

  6. I love UPS for one simple reason–they are reliable. No matter what task you have, the UPS people are helpful and get the job done.

  9. I love the UPS store because they are the closest “copy center” to my house– and their clerks are so helpful. They always help me get the pages on the copy machine in the right direction!

  10. Love the idea! Later this week we are doing “weather” and seasons in our activity-calendar! I’ll have to remember to feature you then!

  13. I use the UPS store alot and they are always friendly. You get in and out quickly and my stuff is always delivered/tracked. It is a world of difference going there over the negative/miserable lines at the post office.

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  15. For our Chinese New Year party, we get bubble wrap at the UPS store and let the kids stomp it so it sounds like the traditional fireworks.

  17. do ebay services, so that is the place we go for the best service!! thanks for the opp–cute crafting idea there for the kids
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  20. I love UPS store because they are close to my home. I also love their online tracking services.

  23. My favorite thing about the UPS store is that I can package and send all in the same place. They have everything I need. captainliss40(at)gmail(dot)com

  27. My favorite thing about the UPS store is that they are a super convenient place to get passport pictures taken quickly to send off for renewal (when I forgot…)

  30. We use UPS for laminating and printing. My daughter is in the process of making a custom Flat Stanley type project, we put our own spin on it and made our own story to go along with the cut-out we created.

  32. The thing I like the most about the UPS store is the service they offer, from packing to supplies.

  33. I love the UPS store because they have all the supplies on hand and help you with packaging. I also like that UPS will ship items that USPS won’t.

  37. I like our UPS store, I always ship there and they are always friendly and help me with my packing.

  42. The UPS store has amazing service around my house…One Friday I forgot to bring in our little community newspaper from my sidewalk and I caught the UPS man picking it up and bringing it to my door along with my package! I was soooo happy at the gesture!

  46. My husband is an elementary teacher and he would most certainly be able to use this for his school supplies! School’s budgets are so slim in our district and the teachers are paying out of pocket, or just doing without! I’d love to surprise him with this for his classroom!

  48. My favorite thing about the UPS store is that they don’t have long lines like they do at UPS or the post office.
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  50. My favorite thing about the UPS store is that it is five minutes from my house and next to Nicola’s Books, my favorite place to pick up books for my classroom library.

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