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This is perfect for girls and boys to pretend to shop, and it looks just like the grocery carts we use! I love how sturdy it is. It will definitely hold up well.
-- Mother of a 2 year old with developmental delays
The Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart is a sturdy plastic push toy with a large open basket for holding an abundance of pretend food or toys! The Cozy Coupe car in front, modeled after the popular Little Tikes ride-on, is just the right size for a doll or teddy bear.
Approx. Price: $34.99 Box Age Range: 1+ yrs # of Pieces: 1 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Bulky Directions: Simple Play Locations: Indoor and Outdoor Adjustability: None Levels of Play: One Level Batteries: None needed
Durable
High Contrasting Colors
Visually Stimulating
Inviting Due to Uniqueness
Large Openings
Open-ended
High Quality
Promotes Active Play
Detailed
Provides Pretend Play Opportunities
Easy to Grasp/Hold
One-Piece Unit
Large Target Area
Easy to Clean
Simple
Fosters Imagination/Promotes Creativity
Oversized
Developmental processes promoted
Visual Attention
Visual Tracking
Visual Processing
Language Development
Action Concepts e.g. In/Out, Push/Pull, On/Off, Go/Stop
The Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart helps children learn through play.
The shopping cart resembles carts found at grocery stores and are familiar to children.
It is a good size for new walkers and toddlers.
This Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart provides open-ended play possibilities.
Skills
The Cozy coupe shopping cart can hold numerous objects that can be identified and named as they are placed in the basket.
Children can make choices as they identify objects to place in their cart.
Using the Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart to pretend shop can help children develop listening skills and practice following directions.
Practicing to shop with their own child-sized shopping cart will help children generalize their experiences to actual shopping trips. As children imitate adults and learn the routine for shopping they become more confident and develop increased self esteem resulting in happier shopping trips in the future.
Play Ideas
Children can engage in open ended imaginative play, imitating their parents and other adults they have seen shopping.
Pretending to shop for pretend food, may help a picky eater feel more confident in trying new foods. Take the Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart on a real grocery shopping trip. A child may be more open to try new foods that he shopped for in his own cart.
Children can “shop” for particular items on a list and placing them in the basket. Your child’s list could identify items by picture (or picture symbol), written word, spoken auditorily, or Braille. Children can then match the list item to the actual object as they place it in the basket.
Children can choose what to put on their shopping lists or in their shopping cart from picture choices. Start with few choices at the beginning and gradually increase the number of choices as a child’s comfort and ability levels permit.
To encourage speech development, have the child say the name of the object before placing it in the cart.
If there are multiple children at play, each child can play the part of someone who can be found at a store (shopper, cashier, etc.) and make conversations with one another. Those who work in the store might say, “May I help you?” while other shoppers might ask for help finding a specific object or may just say, “Have a nice day.” Some children might need a prompt in finding an appropriate thing to say, while others may come up with their own “store lingo”.
If multiple children are playing together, they can take turns pushing the shopping cart and finding objects. If turn taking is difficult, set a number of items to find before turning the shopping cart over to the next person. When playing alone, let the child’s dolls or stuffed animals take turns riding in the cozy coupe, stressing whose turn it is on each exchange.
Adaptation Ideas
Allow your child to make a shopping list with pictures of familiar items around the house. For re-usable and changing fun, use Velcro to attach the pictures on your list so that your child can add and remove items from the list each time he or she shops. Use small dry erase board with Velcro to hold your list and add check boxes for your child to practice writing skills as he or she checks items off of the list!
Label items around the house with printed words (on posted notes, or note cards) to help your child identify words that represent objects.
Make up several sentences that might help start a conversation around the pretend shopping experience and write them on note cards. Take turns drawing cards and reading (or saying) the sentence to start playing. Use the cards to help children think of things to say, and phase them out once the conversation has started.
Set up obstacles along your child’s shopping route for him or her to maneuver around. You may even place toys and shopping items on top of obstacles for your child to reach and place in the basket. (Be sure to place some desirable objects just out of the child’s reach so that he must communicate a request help.)
Description
The Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart helps children learn through play.
The shopping cart resembles carts found at grocery stores and are familiar to children.
It is a good size for new walkers and toddlers.
This Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart provides open-ended play possibilities.
The shopping cart grows with children from a simple push toy to maneuver around objects or aid in learning to walk, to a toy that can aid in moving things from one place to another and eventually to a pretend play experience with endless scenarios.
Skills
Children can learn to identify objects around them as they pick items to place in their cart.
Children can make choices as they identify objects to place in their cart.
Children can learn size relationships as they fit large and small items in the cart’s basket.
Maneuvering the oversized toy around can help children learn valuable problem solving skills.
Beginning math skills can be introduced to children by placing multiple items in the shopping cart, or transfer them from another container to the shopping cart. This exercise can help them experiment with and understand spatial relationships as they fit the items inside the cart.
Using the Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart to pretend shop can help children develop listening skills and practice following directions.
Practicing to shop with their own child-sized shopping cart will help children generalize their experiences to actual shopping trips. As children imitate adults and learn the routine for shopping they become more confident and develop increased self esteem resulting in happier shopping trips in the future.
Play Ideas
Children can engage in open ended imaginative play, imitating their parents and other adults they have seen shopping.
Children can “shop” for particular items on a list and placing them in the basket. Your child’s list could identify items by picture (or picture symbol), written word, spoken auditorily, or Braille. Children can then match the list item to the actual object as they place it in the basket.
Have children find items within a category, such as items that begin with a specific letter or items that are a specific color and place them in the basket.
Count objects as they are placed in the basket. Challenge older children to see how many of a particular object they can fit in the large basket.
Dolls or teddy bears can be given a ride to various stops around the house, encouraging children to maneuver around obstacles and problem solve as they pick up more “babies” to ride.
In an open area, such as a basement, gym or outdoor play space, children can race (either with multiple Cozy Coupe Shopping Carts, or timed) through an obstacle course, picking specific items up along the way to place in their baskets.
Encourage children to follow a specific path (e.g. “Through the kitchen, past the back door, and stop at the fireplace.”) with the shopping cart, adding steps to increase the difficulty as children remember and successfully complete the easier course.
Adaptation Ideas
Allow your child to make a shopping list with pictures of familiar items around the house. For re-usable and changing fun, use Velcro to attach the pictures on your list so that your child can add and remove items from the list each time he or she shops. Use small dry erase board with Velcro to hold your list and add check boxes for your child to practice writing skills as he or she checks items off of the list!
Label items around the house with printed words (on posted notes, or note cards) to help your child identify words that represent objects.
Add weighted objects such as 2 liter bottles to the shopping cart to help your child maintain control of the shopping cart as he pushes it. The additional weight will help slow down the shopping cart and develop strength and body awareness as the child pushes it.
The Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart helps children learn through play.
The shopping cart resembles carts found at grocery stores and are familiar to children.
It is a good size for new walkers and toddlers.
This Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart provides open-ended play possibilities.
The shopping cart is molded in high contrasting primary colors. Note: a Princess Shopping Cart is also available, molded in pink, purple and white.
Skills
Children can engage in open ended imaginative play, imitating their parents and other adults they have seen shopping.
Children can learn to identify objects around them as they pick items to place in their cart.
Children will become more aware of their body and where they are in space as they maneuver the shopping cart around obstacles.
Practicing to shop with their own child-sized shopping cart will help children generalize their experiences to actual shopping trips. As children imitate adults and learn the routine for shopping they become more confident and develop increased self esteem resulting in happier shopping trips in the future.
Play Ideas
Have children shop for items of various textures, shapes and weights and encourage them to place the items in the shopping cart.
Use the shopping cart to help transition to another activity. Have the child gather up the current activity items and place them in the cart. Then have him push the cart to put the items away before beginning the next activity.
If multiple children are playing together, they may take turns pushing the shopping cart and finding objects. If turn taking is difficult, set a number of items to find before turning the shopping cart over to the next person. When playing alone, let the child’s dolls or stuffed animals take turns riding in the Cozy Coupe, stressing whose turn it is on each exchange.
Have children shop for items with specific sensory qualities (i.e. find the item that is soft, or find the item that sounds like…).
Place all items for an activity in the shopping cart. This will help a child locate the items he needs. This can also help in finding hat, gloves, and scarf in the winter or bathing suit and towel in the summer.
Adaptation Ideas
Place a talking switch or push-on musical toy in the basket to be activated as toys are tossed in for auditory confirmation that the item was successfully placed in the cart.
Use a black permanent marker to outline the basket opening to aid children in visually discriminating the opening of the basket.
Use textured toys with the shopping cart that can be identified by shape and feel.
Add weighted objects such as 2 liter bottles to the shopping cart to help your child maintain control of the shopping cart as he pushes it. The additional weight will help slow down the shopping cart and develop strength and body awareness as the child pushes it.
The Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart helps children learn through play.
The shopping cart resembles carts found at grocery stores and are familiar to children.
It is a good size for new walkers and toddlers.
This Cozy Coupe Shopping Cart provides open-ended play possibilities.
This shopping cart has a push handle that is large enough for two hands to push.
The shopping cart grows with children from a simple push toy to maneuver around objects or aid in learning to walk, to a toy that can aid in moving things from one place to another and eventually to a pretend play experience with endless scenarios.
Children learning to walk can hold onto and push the shopping cart for a little extra support as they gain confidence in their new skill. The walker even has an anti-tipping feature preventing the child from falling forward when leaning down on the shopping cart’s handle.
Skills
Placing objects in the large basket can help children develop eye-hand coordination.
Children learn size relationships as they fit large and small items in the cart’s basket.
Motor skills are developed when children grasp objects and release them into the large target of the cart’s basket.
Children learn valuable problem solving skills as they figure out the best way to seat their doll or stuffed animal in the Cozy Coupe and move from one spot to another past obstacles.
Pushing this cart can help children practice weight shifting and reciprocal leg movements, and gain strength in their legs to walk independently.
Play Ideas
Dolls or teddy bears may be given a ride to various stops around the house. Encourage children to maneuver around obstacles and problem solve as they pick up more “babies” to ride.
In an open area, such as a basement, gym or outdoor play space, children can race (either with multiple Cozy Coupe Shopping Carts, or timed) through an obstacle course, picking specific items up along the way to place in their baskets.
Encourage children to follow a specific path (e.g. “Through the kitchen, past the back door, and stop at the fireplace.”) with the shopping cart, adding steps to increase the difficulty as children remember and successfully complete the easier course.
Set up obstacles along your child’s shopping route for him or her to maneuver around. You may even place toys and shopping items on top of obstacles for your child to reach and place in the basket.
Use the shopping cart as a clean up tool. Have the child gather up his or her belongings as he pushes the shopping cart around and then take the items to the place where they belong and have the child put them away.
Adaptation Ideas
Add weighted objects such as 2 liter bottles to the shopping cart to help your child maintain control of the shopping cart as he pushes it. The additional weight will help slow down the shopping cart and develop strength and body awareness as the child pushes it.
To aid in picking up objects and placing them in or removing them from the basket, place Velcro on objects being shopped for and have the child wear a knit glove or mitten that the Velcro sticks to.
Secure the shopping cart between a wall and chair to allow the child access from the side of the shopping cart.
