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Make-Believe Hospital

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Help your child overcome his fear of doctors by setting up a hospital for his stuffed animals.

What You Need: 

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

What To Do: 

Using friends, stuffed animals, or cooperative parents for patients, help your child set up a hospital or doctor's office.
Lay pillows and blankets in a corner of the room.
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.
Make a sling from a flat cloth diaper or other piece of material folded into a triangle.
Take turns playing the doctor, nurse, patient, and visitor.