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Kids selling lemonade is kind of an American classic image. IKEA takes a shot at it with their children’s market stand, Skylta.  This one is corrogated cardboard, so might be better suited to roleplaying… unless you want to use it as a pattern for your DIY flatpack creation.

Encourages role play; children develop social skills by imitating grown-ups and inventing their own roles.

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Attractive and organized, this center looks like just the thing for striking a balance between letting a child explore their creativity while keeping housecleaning parents sane.

“I’m cur­rently in the process of set­ting up a new craft stu­dio to cor­ral all of the projects that have slowly begun to take over our house. The inten­tion was to cre­ate a space for “mommy’s projects,” but it quickly caught the inter­est of my lit­tle ones. What could be cooler than a room filled with art supplies?”

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Move over Barbie dream house, your little girl or boy can now plan their space mission instead of doting over the emotionally unavailable Ken.

This spaceship and rocket will provide the fuel for imaginative explorations as children prepare, launch or arrive at their destination somewhere in the galaxy. The top of the rocket detaches and can become a landing module

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That old stand-by of kids crafts projects, the toilet paper roll, has found new life as miniature garden gnomes.  Although these won’t withstand the first hard rain, they seem like a great project for the little ones with lots of  room  for customization.

These extra tiny garden gnomes have a modern shape that makes them a breeze to cast out of basic craft store plaster in a simple, homemade mold. You can pop out a whole village of them in an afternoon and let the kids (or yourself!) go to town decorating them.

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