Now we all know that a girl loves her shoes! I just had no idea how much my little girl would love these shoes though!
Having seen how much Minnie enjoyed a recent visit to a shoe shop, I thought we'd create one for her at home. We collected various shoes & wellies from around our house, some of Minnie’s old shoes & baby shoes, along with different sized shoe boxes.
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| Minnie's baby shoes. It's hard to believe her feet have grown so much! |
We created a paying area around our sofa, & added a couple of chairs for the customers, with a mirror so they could check out their purchases.
Minnie was soon taking on the role of the shopkeeper & happily served me & her toys, finding shoes, bagging them up, sorting money & handing out her till receipts.
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| One happy customer! |
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| Minnie checking to see if the shoe fits! |
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| Sorting the shoes & matching pairs |
I loved the way that she explored & compared the size & shape of shoes, & matched pairs to corresponding shoe boxes.
Soon Minnie was the customer & enjoyed trying on all of the shoes, especially mine! She was fascinated to see how much her own feet had grown too.
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| Minnie loved unwrapping the tissue paper to discover the shoes in the box |
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Walking around the room to check the fit was right!
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After serving the customers in her shoe shop Minnie ran off & returned with a ruler. She then began measuring her dolls feet & her own, before drawing around them... & around mine! We cut out the footprints & compared the size of our feet.
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| Measuring the width of feet |
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| Drawing around her feet |
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| Our footprints |
Minnie continued drawing (with a little bit of help) around her dolls feet. I suggested they might like some shoes so we set to work on making some bespoke footwear.
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| Doll's footprints |
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| These footprints became the soles for our dolls shoes |
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| Minnie decorated a strap... |
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| ... & stuck it to the doll's footprint to create our shoe! |
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| Here are our stylish shoes! They're our version of a basic birkenstock! ;-) |
What do you think? I have to say I think the recipients were happy with the new footwear.
This role play area has been so popular with Minnie, & it’s been great to observe how it’s encouraged her creativity, language & maths skills.
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