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Go shopping for experiences and activities that will stimulate learning across all areas of the early years curriculum, with these suggestions from Denise Bailey Children love to play in pretend shops, which can provide the basis for a topic and also form part of other topics such as 'food' or 'people who help us' or 'clothes'.

Children love to play in pretend shops, which can provide the basis for a topic and also form part of other topics such as 'food' or 'people who help us' or 'clothes'.

Shopping activities quickly capture children's imaginations and provide a wide range of learning opportunities across all areas of the early years curriculum through child-initiated play.

Basic resources for a shop, such as a till, money, bags, purses and scales, can be stored in a labelled storage box and set up quickly and easily in response to a child's current interest.

Alternatively, practitioners can set up shops that have a wider range of resources and can remain in use for a longer period in a particular area in the setting.

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