Wooden crate dramatic play

Though it sounds (and looks!) like a lot of work to build a watermelon stand, I can easily say that it was one of the easiest DIY projects I've ever tackled! Twenty minutes is all you need to whip this one up. Find the full tutorial for this adorable watermelon (or lemonade!) stand below!

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!

Ashley ∣ Kindergarten ∣ PreK on Instagram: "Time to fix this dramatic play stand!✨ I’ve had this dramatic play stand for four years, and it’s been well loved! However, it’s on its last leg! Couple of the slats have come off and the paint has faded! It’s time to give this stand an upgrade! It’s super simple and easy to make on your own (trust me, I am not a handy person!) I got four large wooden crates from @michaelsstores and use gorilla wood glue to glue them together! No nails,no having…

Use this easy to build crate stand for lemonade sales, farmer's market, or classroom dramatic play area. Homeroad.net #classroom #crates #lemonadestand #farmersmarket #dramaticplay #kids

Dramatic Play is an important part of the education of young children. When children are in engaged in dramatic play they are pretending and developing essential social-emotional skills.

This play stand can be anything your kids want it to be. It can be a lemonade stand, a post office, a market, a puppet theater and lots more! They will never get bored with this DIY play equipment!

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…

Learn how to make your own dramatic play center and ideas of what to turn your dramatic play center into. Farmers Market, Cocoa Stand, and more...

My daughter has been asking to have a lemonade stand since last summer, so it was a must on our 2018 Summer Bucket List. I saw some cute DIY ideas using wooden crates and thought that we would giv…