For Christmas I wanted to get my son a play set with figures and I ended up choosing the Fisher Price Little People Shop ‘N Learn Market. I grew up playing with Fisher Price Little People sets so they have always had a special spot in my heart but this particular one looked very interesting as it repeated words and numbers in both English and Spanish. With every intention of teaching my son Spanish someday I knew the toy would help with that process.
Upon opening the Fisher Price Little People Shop ‘N Learn Market my son, and myself actually, were eager to play with it. The market consists of a back wall that contains a functional door and 10 sections, well shelves and two of these shelves are behind another door to represent a fridge, and a floor with an airplane ride, a scanner and a cash register. It comes with two figures, the grocer and a customer, a shopping cart and ten crates, that contain a food item, toys or flowers.
The scanner can tell you the number of the crate, the item that is on it and the color or shape that it is. Each crate is labeled with a number and it is that number that is the number of things in the crate. When you scan the crate, lets say a crate of peas, which has eight pea pods on it, at the register it says peas, guisantes. If you scan it a second time it says green, verde. You can set the scanner to say the number on the crate or just to beep like a scanner does.
The airplane ride makes the sound of children giggling, the sound of an airplane and a little song when you push it down and you can spin it with a person in it. The register says common market phrases you would hear in both English and Spanish, like hello, good bye and next please and their Spanish translation. It didn’t take long before I found myself picking up how to say the different words in Spanish just from hearing my son play with the Fisher Price Little People Shop ‘N Learn Market and I am certain that as he gets older he’ll do the same, just the other day he repeated the word hola.
Definite another plus with this toy is that it has a quieter sound setting as well as an off button and folds up for easier travel when we take it to Grandma’s. All in all I really like this toy for its educational value and my son absolutely loves it for its fun value.
