We have 3 big tubs of craft stuff now - it seems to grow all by itself! Lots of coloured cardboard, different papers, ribbons, glue, glitters, pom poms, paddle pop sticks, sequins, beads...you name it, it's probably in there. I tend to buy extra bits and pieces when I see them at the $2 shops or at kmart/big w/target - if there's like a pack of foam shapes or paint rollers or whatever it might be, I just buy one thing every now and then. Both of my kids love art and craft, and it helped that I had my own tub of stuff before #1 was born (I always liked to make cards etc when I was younger) so we have just added to it over time. I cull stuff sometimes, too.

As for the dress-ups, we have a massive collection of those, too - another of my kids favourite things to do. I have bought commercial costumes over the years when they've been like on clearance, or they've gotten them as gifts, but on the whole I have gone to second hand shops or my aunty/grandmother's etc house and gotten beads and vintage handbags and scarves and sunglasses, different coloured ballet flats, lots of hats, clip-on earrings, bracelets, satin gloves....there's an endless list of things in there. Plus I go to Spotlight and the like and buy bits and pieces that we need if there's a fancy dress party or a book week dress-up thing, and it gets added to by that as well. But I have found that out of everything the kids have in there, their favourite things are the second hand 'real-life' things - they like to dress up as little real adults, rather than superheroes etc most of the time. Especially when my daughter was littler, and would come out with the whole works on - feather boa, some sparkly top that fit her like a dress, beads/bracelets/earrings galore and a massive pair of sunnies, with a pair of my heels on