Shop Play Area

Children’s Play Area in Chesterfield

Within our shop play area in Chesterfield you will find different baskets of fruit and vegetables that can be sorted based on their colours – red, green, yellow, orange, purple and brown. The tins of food can be grouped into three and stacked on the shelves, use the baskets and trolleys to collect your shopping! Role play as a cashier behind the check-out and use the till to pay for your shopping. At the end you can pack your groceries in the brown shopping bags and take them home to our Tiny Town House!

Early Years Foundation Stage in Children’s Play Area  in Chesterfield

Babies, toddlers and young children will be learning to combine objects like stacking things and putting objects inside others and taking them out again. In our Mini Market Shop, children can group the tinned fruit and vegetables into three and stack them together on the shelves.

Toddlers can be encouraged to play with a wide variety of interestingly shaped toys like vegetables, sorting them and putting them into different baskets based on their colours, building a child’s mathematical skills. Baskets and shopping bags can be used to put the shopping in and take the shopping out.

Children in reception will be learning to compare numbers. Using vocabulary such as ‘more than’, ‘less than’, ‘fewer’, ‘the same as’ to distribute shopping items into baskets/bags etc. Children can use the pretend money in the shop to ‘pay for their shopping items’.

Physical development can also take place in our Mini Market if children use the shopping trolleys to hold themselves up as they’re pushing it along, and shopping baskets for filling, carrying or emptying.