MTA Outdoor Shop, Food & Crockery Kit

The MTA Outdoor Shop and Groceries Set offers an exciting and interactive play experience for children, featuring a charming outdoor shop display, 6 crates, and 47 assorted wooden food and crockery pieces. This set enhances social skills, organisation, and creativity through hands-on, pretend play.

This set allows little ones to run their own market, encouraging imaginative role-playing as they "sell" toys, fruits, and pretend goods.

The shop's sturdy design with spacious crates are perfect for organising the high-quality wooden food items, including plates, cups, and utensils.

Ideal for children aged 3+.

Set Includes:

• MTA029 Shop & Crates - Sturdy outdoor shop display 67(L) x 78(H) x 28(D) cm with 6 spacious crates
• MTA030 Food & Crockery - Assorted wooden food items, plates, cups, and utensils

Benefits for Educational Use:

• Promotes imaginative play by allowing children to create their own marketplace, enhancing creativity and storytelling.
• Develops social skills as children engage in role-playing scenarios, promoting communication, sharing, and cooperation.
• Teaches responsibility and organisation by sorting and "selling" food items in the shop's crates, encouraging tidy play.
• Supports fine motor development through handling small items like food, plates, and utensils.
• Stimulates basic math skills as children "price" and "sell" their goods, learning about numbers and transactions.
• Fosters empathy as children role-play customer and shopkeeper interactions, developing emotional awareness and social skills.

Classroom Ideas:

• Role-Playing Market: Set up a pretend outdoor market where children can take turns being the shopkeeper or customer, promoting cooperative play and social skills.
• Sorting & Organising: Use the crates to sort food items by type (e.g., fruits, vegetables, or crockery), helping children with categorisation and organisational skills.
• Math and Counting Activities: Teach children about pricing and counting money as they "sell" their items, introducing basic arithmetic in a fun, engaging way.
• Healthy Eating Lesson: Discuss healthy food choices while children engage in the grocery-selling activity, promoting awareness of balanced diets.

This furniture has a risk of falling over. Wall anchors should be used when an item has a warning tip over label.

Children have died from furniture tipover.

• ALWAYS secure this furniture with an anchor device.
• NEVER allow children to stand, climb or hang on drawers, doors, or shelves.
NEVER open more than one drawer at a time.
ALWAYS place heavy items down low.