To market, to market!

Whilst pottering around Pinterest this evening, I spotted a post about a market stall made from an Ikea shoe rack and Ikea wooden storage box. I thought it was really cool, then suddenly thought: "I have those things already..."

After a little rummaging to find out exactly where they were, I created one little market stall for the Little Crumpet to play with tomorrow.

I had absolutely everything already! Wooden, plastic and felt fruit and vegetables, wooden cupcakes and felt donuts, flowers from our Gardening box, Crumpet's till. The little shopping bag is the bag our wooden building blocks came in. I used the frame of the wooden storage shelves on top of the shoe rack for additional shelves. One day, I will make an awning and little sign to go above, but not bad for an evening out the blue!

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!