How do you teach a toddler to get dressed?!

[TwoPeasOnePod]

My daughter is 3, and is capable of pulling her pants/trousers up after going to the loo, but will not try and help during getting fully dressed/undressed.
Im starting to teach her now, mindful that she will need to be able to do this for P.E at school next year, but she gets hysterical and won't even try to pull her clothes on/find armholes etc etc..

So basically, does anyone know any 'fun' ways of encouraging toddlers to get dressed themselves?! Ive been keeping it as light as poss and praising her like mad when she does manage, simple instructions, assisting her without taking over, but its bloody hard work

Does she have access to her clothes? Are they in drawers in her bedroom.

I only ask because both of my children went through the exact same phase at around 2.5yrs old, of emptying the contents of thier drawers and trying everything on. That was the start of them dressing themselves.

Does she have a dressing up box? If not you could make one, even with your own clothes but its a fun way to learn.

Just leave her to it when she gets hysterical. When DS1 refuses to put pants on in the morning (he is still in a night nappy due to other problems) I tell him that he can't come downstairs until his pants are on, and that I am not going to stay in his bedroom with him so he can sit there on his own. I then take DS2 downstairs with me and we start the breakfast routine. Only a few times has he lasted for a long time. Boredom/hunger gets him moving! And I'm too far away for the temper tantrums to get to me !!!

But I did do things in stages - I made sure all of his pants had a picture on the front, so that he could easily put them on, knowing which side was the front side, started with asking him to show me which side went on the front and then held them the way he asked for him to put his legs in.

Then with trousers I made sure they had a 'button' at the front, so that he could look for that too (and pockets at the back - the trousers with big pockets all over are quite difficult for him to differentiate front and back). T-shirts are harder, as a lot of them are a very tight fit on his head, and he can really struggle with them, but he does always help me put his hands through. Now with his jacket I showed him how to put it on the ground in front of him, upside down, and then put his arms in the sleeves then flip it over his head and 'voila' it is on the right way!! Much easier than making him try to find the sleeves when they are behind him. Still can't do socks though, and has trouble with shoes (the tongue always goes funny) but can do sandals so summer was easier.