Flower Shop Dramatic Play

Spring is here! And I’m so happy with how this little Flower Shop turned out. It was the perfect way to celebrate spring and also Sofie’s love of watering plants and flowers. I designed this little Flower Market setup in some awesome boho neutral colors which was so much because my typical palette is so colorful. For this one, I wanted the theme to be a bit more subtle and neutral to match with the white and green flowers.

Here are some of the supplies you’ll need:

• Flower Shop Dramatic Play Kit

• Fake Flowers Tulips and Mums

• Wooden Dowel for Flag

• Flower Puzzle by Busy Littles

• Flower Play Tray by Kinderspiel

• Glass Sorting Jars

• Ribbon

• Hot Glue Gun

• Flower Pots

• Flisat Table plus Skadis Peg Board

• Toddler sized watering can

Also check out the amazing Pockets of Sweetness on instagram for some more flower shop inspiration. She used this printable kit to do a lovely little flower cart that is just unbelievably adorable.

Flower Instructions

For the long pedals:

1. Cut out all of the pedals

2. Cut out the circle center

3. Glue the pedals around the circle starting with the outside edge and working your way toward the center

4. Cut out the yellow strips of paper and fold in half long ways.

5. Then cut slots on the white lines

6. Roll in a circle to get the center of the flower

For the Rose:

Bumblebee Sensory Table

I’m so ready for spring! The flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping. And Sofie and I have been talking about bumblebees. Especially this weekend because she caught a little cold and for the first time ever, she got to taste a little honey to help coat her sore throat. To celebrate spring, we set up this fun little bumblebee sensory play table. This was so much fun we did a few different activities:

• Colored Rice & Sprinkle Sensory: We used this little wooden tray, some simple black jimmies sprinkles and we used the yellow pastel food coloring for the rice. We used our little wooden scoop from Busy Littles to scoop and pour.

• Flower Petal Rice Sorting: We used this amazing flower petal tray from Kinderspiel to sort white and yellow rice between the two trays.

• Reading about Bees: Sofie loves these ThinkTouchLearn books, so we used this Little Critters Book to match the bees and talk about how bees make honey, honeycomb, and bee hives.

• Button Sorting: I recently bought all of these amazing rainbow colored buttons for sensory tables and we used the Lovevery felt bowl and pinchers to pick out buttons and sort them by size. We also used the bumblebee antenna pipe cleaners to practice threading the buttons.

• Bumblebee Flying: We used these amazing little felt bumblebees to fly them around the room, land them in the rice, and buttons. We also paired them with our Bugs Flashcards to talk about all of the little critters in the bumblebee world.

And of course we used our amazing little IKEA Flisat play table to hold the whole setup. Sofie’s best friend Bear Bear (Slumberkins Honey Bear) joined us for the fun because after all, bears love honey!

Hot Cocoa Sensory Bin & Dramatic Play Kit

It’s Hot Cocoa season! And I’m so excited to share this downloadable, printable Hot Chocolate Kit. This kit includes so many great goodies and opportunities to learn. Big thank you to Busy Littles for the sensory kit and @rene.gowen for the photography!

• Hot Chocolate Banner

• Toppings Labels

• Pennant Flag

• Baby it’s Cold Outside Sign

• Cut outs

• Fractions Practice Fill-a-cup Activity