Play shop ideas

Tired of cooking? Our IKEA play kitchen hacks show how easily the DUKTIG can be transformed into a myriad of dramatic play experiences.

Edible paint might just be the best idea ever invented! Learn how to make edible paint for your baby with this simple, allergy friendly recipe.

Pizza is a favorite food for many preschoolers. Setting up a pizza parlor in your learning space is a great way for preschoolers to develop important math, literacy, and social skills while having fun!

Young children love to order sandwiches at this adorable Sandwich Shop dramatic play center. Practice life skills, math, literacy, and more!

DIY market stand for dramatic play by Little Lifelong Learners. We're sharing how to make a simple DIY market stand for kids using Ikea crates! This DIY Ikea playroom hack is easy, inexpensive, and can be used to transform your play space into a farmers market, grocery store, bakery, donut shop, coffee shop, pizza shop, lemonaide stand, and more. Your kids will love engaging in imaginative play and play-based learning using this DIY market stand! Read the blog post to learn more!

After doing a deeper dive into our own business plan, operating expenses, and revenues, it was easy for me to see where an indoor playground business can go awry.

How cool is that for your kids?

After sharing some photos of Aggie's birthday party this week, I wanted to highlight the star of the show - the DIY pretend play stands. The idea for them is what convinced me this party theme would be perfect for the three year old set. The only problem was just how was I going to get all of this done? Enter the amazing Jamie of That's My Letter who so kindly offered to help design and build them out of the kindness of her extremely big heart. And the love doesn't stop there - she is kind…

This dramatic play focus on a flower shop in the children will be able to pretrend that they are in a flower shop. I'll buy plastic flowers for safety and imagination to bright their flower shop to life.