The Farmers Market Stand is a wonderful facade to include on a playground at a schoolyard or park. This freestanding pretend play unit promotes dramatic play by children. With this storefront, kids can act out the roles of being a hardworking farmer bringing a collection of grown foods to the city. And their friends can imagine they’re stopping by the market on the way home to get some tasty goodies to make for dinner that evening. Or they might end up crafting a wholly original story that only partially mentions the stand. The joy of the make believe play that the Farmers Market Stand promotes is that it empowers children to explore their own creative potential. Designing a playground space that includes such imagination stations is an important counterbalance to the purely physical play items like swings and slides. Such areas encourage social interactivity and nurture understanding of places in the larger world.
