Thursday 19 March 2015

Invitation to play: flower shop

Flower shop invitation to play, all ready for when the little crumpet wakes up from her lunchtime nap!



It was so easy to put together, I picked up bits and pieces when I was shopping.

Seed packets, flower pots and seed markers: Wilkinsons
Artificial flowers: Ikea
Hand trowel and rake: Asda
Seeds: packet of wholefood seed mix, Asda
Soil: the rice is coloured with red and green food colouring, to make it brown, and a generous sprinkling of cocoa powder. The flowers are standing in chocolate playdoh. You can find the recipe from Anna at The Imagination Tree here.

Beware! It smells amazing so your little one might want to eat it!

The till and shopping basket are both from Early Learning Centre, watering can is from Wilkinsons and the colander is from B&M Bargains. The sorting tray is a card fruit tray that I painted.


Little crumpet absolutely adored playing flower shop! She's still too young for proper role play, but she had great fun scooping 'soil' into the pots and tipping it back out again, sticking her flowers into the playdoh soil, and emptying and refilling the packets of seeds! We spent well over an hour playing together! Our playroom may now have a good sprinkling of rice everywhere, but nothing a quick sweep and hoover won't fix!



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