Recently Le Bebe likes to play pretend play as if he does grocery shopping. I guess it's because I bring him to do grocery shopping often (well, actually it's kinda escape from home when he gets bored).
But, (in my defense lol) grocery shopping with baby can give a lot of advantages:
- It can introduce your baby to many things around him
- It can increase your baby's vocabulary
- You can teach your baby many classification such as: colours, vegetables, fruits, food from animal in a very fun way
- You can teach your baby early counting and there's a lot of simple words to read for young reader
- You can teach your baby how to queue properly
- Your baby can meet a lot of people and find a way to adapt and communicate
- You can teach your baby to decide choose what he wants to buy (and you'd better avoid toys section)
- Not to mention this is a part of practical skill activity
So because it's hard to go to the market everyday, I type this printable to-buy-list with numbers, letters and picture so he can do grocery shopping at home. I also prepare the basket, reusable shopping bag, scale and some stuffs he needs to buy and put the stuffs randomly but with classification inside the house. He just needs to get on his bike (and now he asks for a pretend key to turn on his bike, well ok), looks at to-buy-list, gets around the house and finds what he needs to buy. This is exciting!! And hopefully this may be exciting too for you ❤️
