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We completed more of our village store this week with the grocery store. I am realizing that we only have one month left here in our summer home-away-from-home and I find myself thinking we have a lot more village to create in just a month. The store started out looking like this:
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These are little bird houses. My Mom picked these up at Joanne's for me and said they would be perfect for our village. She was right :) They are slowing turning into different places in the village.
I used a
dremel tool to carve out the back of each house and to cut off the little bird "perch" in the front. You can tell I don't get much practice with this little tool (I always just borrow one.)
For all the grocery store "products" I cut apart the newspaper ads from the stores and put them on with modge podge (a layer under and a layer over each of the pictures.) I guess our store is basically wallpapered on!
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The back of the store has the produce, and another side has the snacks.
The inside shows eggs, breads, cheese, milk, juice, etc. I'm seeing it as a fun way for us to learn about the food pyramid and talk about different kinds of foods and where they come from.
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The "STORE" letters are just to work on word recognition. Jay glued the scrabble letters onto popsicle sticks.
You can may be able see that there is also a little carrot garden next to the store. It adds a little "farmer's market" feel to the grocery store. The carrots are sewn down so they can't get lost but they can be "picked" from the garden.
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The Store is open for business...
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I hope to add some flowers too, and some berries since we picked some of those up too at the farmer's market today. Hmmm...makes me hungry just thinking about it :)
If you want to build a village too, feel free to check out past posts about the village and making roads. It's been a great "open-ended toy" to encourage lots of imagination!