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My children love to play store and seem to set up a new shop in our living room each day. It can get a bit messy, especially when they use all of my books to create a book store. And don’t get me started on the toy store that includes most of the toys and stuffed animals from their bedrooms.

When I was asked to review the Melissa & Doug Grocery Store/Lemonade stand, I was thrilled. It is absolutely perfect for my children.

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The plastic bins not only help to keep everything neat and tidy, but they also make clean up a breeze. The removable chalkboard signs are perfect for handwriting practice and also provide a fun way to teach money values to my older two.

It is very sturdy, holding up well to all three of my kiddos who can sometimes be more like bulls in a China shop.

High-quality, educational and fun, what else would you expect from Melissa & Doug?

The Grocery Store/Lemonade Stand has already received hours of play. We can’t wait for springtime to take the stand outside and sell lemonade to the neighbors.

This would make a perfect Christmas gift. In fact, we have one Melissa & Doug Grocery Store/Lemonade Stand, retail value $129.99, to give away to one lucky reader.

Here’s how you can enter to win:

  1. See our Christmas Giveaway 2009 post to read more about
    participating in our Christmas Giveaway

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  2. Either link back to this post and include a Christmas Giveaway 2009 button in that post or on your sidebar, or link to the individual giveaways you choose to enter. We have a ton of different buttons and styles for you to choose from. Click here to get the button codes. (If you post and include the button, either in your post or on your sidebar, and link back here, you are good for all the giveaways. No more linking required.)
  3. Please leave one comment below to enter this giveaway. You may earn additional entries for the following:
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    If you are already subscribed and are on our newsletter list, you qualify for these two additional entries. Go ahead and leave your additional comments below.
  4. As always, non bloggers are welcome to participate! We understand you can’t link – but please spread the word to your friends via email, twitter, etc.
  5. Entries are open from Monday, November 16th until Friday, December 4th at 12pm EST.
  6. Our winner will be drawn randomly and we will announce the winner Tuesday, December 5th. Please make sure to check our site and your email address to see if you have won a prize. We must receive your reply within 5 business days. (If you want your prize to arrive in time — the sooner we hear from you, the better!)
  7. This contest is open to US shipping addresses only. Due to legal restrictions, this promotion void where prohibited.

    Please see our site’s Terms and Conditions of Use for a complete list of our Contest and Giveaway Rules.

*Melissa & Doug provided me with one Grocery Store/Lemonade Stand to review as well as one to giveaway. They are also providing a toy to our Under The Tree program.

Written by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing editor, Erica.

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695 Comments

  28. I LOVE Melissa & Doug toys (they TRULY are the BEST out there!) This is one we would really have a blast with. We already have bunches of the fruit and food groups to pretend play with this stand (And it would help me to keep them organized, lol.)

    Thank you Melissa & Doug and 5 Minutes for Mom~ you really are the BEST!
    Jes~
    greimanj at comcast dot net

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  34. I have some small presents for Chubby-huggy, but I’m missing that big “wow” gift. This would be so perfect, wouldn’t it???

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  73. This is so cool, I love the reversable awning! I know my son would love this! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  75. Oh my gosh, our neighborhood little ones are always trying to do lemonade stands. THIS would be great for the kids!!! Something of their very own that parents do not have to help them set up everytime.WHAT a GREAT idea!!!!
    (AND our great neighborhood kids always donate all their profits to the humane society…as we have lost beloved dogs the past 2 years on our block. Isnt that AWESOME!!!

    ejrichter60 at gamil dot com

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  78. I adore Melissa & Doug Products. My son would love playing with this. He takes out all our food from the pantry to play with it. The food stand would be much better for him to play with.

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  95. Those are so cute! They could definitely inspire lots of imaginitive play as well as be used for real lemondae stands.

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  109. This is a wonderful toy. I’d love to put this under the tree for my kids for Christmas. Makes me remember all the time my brother and sister and I set up our Lemonade stand outside our house.

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  121. So incredibly cute!! I love Melissa and Doug – I think we own every wooden puzzle they’ve ever made . . .

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  170. My niece had a lemonade stand this summer just using a folding table, she’s really love this and use it a lot

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  171. We have the toy bins but nothing as cute as these!!! Love the top counter part of these as it would make a really nice play area!

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  175. My baby girl loves playing store and uses a cardboard box as her store. This would be awesome for her!

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  184. I love melissa & doug toys…we have quite a few of their puzzles especially. This set looks great. My kids would have a ball with it 🙂

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  193. would really, really love the Melissa & Doug Grocery Store/Lemonade Stand… I would donate to our local preschool.

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  211. Please include our family in the melissa and doug grocery store lemonade stand. Norminate our family please. Thanks

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  220. so entertaining.. and I think I could drink a lemonade right now! Homemade is so delicious.
    This is a lovely toy.
    nmcclymer

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  231. This is an awesome item that can promote hours of latsing imaganitive play. I know my daughter would love to get this for christmas…also opening a “store” or a “lemonade stand” is a great way to teach child about money. Thanks for the opportunity to win this
    Gina

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  242. What a great idea! Not only is it fun, but it also teaches the little ones about money and math.

    Thanks for the contest!

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  254. So cute! My Toddler would love playing with this. I just love Toys from Melissa & Doug. It is such a great developmental toy.

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  292. My Juju bean would LOVE this so much. Just today he was pretending he had a store – I bought all sorts of things from him!
    I have the button posted

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  311. Melissa and Doug have such unique products. This would be a great way to teach the kids about money and working together. Thank you

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  318. I love Melissa and Doug i have always found it to be really really well made….. I would love to win for my sister to put in her new babies room

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  355. My girls love to play store and farmer’s market. They would have hours of fun with this. Thanks for the giveaways–you’ll make someone very happy!

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  356. i subscribed through google reader!

    i also have you button linked on my blog, which i forgot to mention in my original post. 🙂

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  371. Playing store is one of Liz’s favorite things to do. She would be ecstatic over having such a cool store to sell from.

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  378. All the neighborhood kids would have so much fun with this all year long!
    Thanks! foxsquirrelrabbit at gmail dot com

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  386. This would be awesome to win, especially since allllllll summer long, my son was asking to set up a lemonade stand like his sister used to do. This would make it so much easier and more organized for him!

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  405. How adorable. My daughter would love this. She was just asking this past summer to set up a Lemonade stand. THanks so much.

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  458. My daughter would love this. She loves to stand behind things and ask “Whatchu want?” This would be perfect for her.

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  460. I would LOVE to win this I totally would cry.

    I am a Melissa and Doug fanatic. In fact, I wrote about them on my blog the other day, this is a great gift for my toddler daughters, I’d be the mom of the year!

    ~fingers crossed~

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  481. This is crazy cool! We are thinking of making our office into a playroom and this would be so cute in there. My kids would get hours of entertainment!

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  487. I get the newsletter

    I think we saw these at the Discovery Science Center a few years ago – these would be awesome for my daughter’s school!

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  491. We got a Melissa and Doug Easel last Christmas and the kids loved it so i am! There products are sturdy and wonderful!

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  500. We LOVE Melissa & Doug stuff around our house! I know my little fellow would get a kick out of that grocery store. Thanks!

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  534. My boys would so love this and I would love that they’d have such a great way to organize all their play food. Thanks, Maureen (jnomaxx at hotmail dot com)

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  546. My 4yr old (going on 5 in Dec) would LOVE this for christmas, she loves to play “buyer” and pretend to go shopping! Thanks for a great giveaway!

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  549. Wow my nephew would love this! We did a lemonade stand this summer but this is so cute! I love Melissa and Doug- I am an email subscriber!
    Thanks!
    Maggie M.

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  554. My kids would love this toy! My daughter has been wanting to set up a lemonade stand ever since she saw some kids doing one last summer!

    My favorite Sesame Street memory would have to be the “Ladybug Picnic” song! I believe it was on the days when the number of the day was “12” because I also loved the pinball song… 1-2-3-4-5… 6-7-8-9-10… 11-12 ohohohohohohoh!

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  559. my 4 year old would freak over this. They had one similar to it at a play place in MS. and we almost never got her out

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  567. NEAR…..far…..NEAR…..far.

    My favorite book when I was a kid was “There’s a Monster At The End of This Book” with Lovable, Furry, Old Grover. Then when I had kids, I noticed they made a new version, and Grover had to share billing with that abomination, Elmo.

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  572. My favorite Sesame Street story is a recent one. I found my two sons sitting in their room singing the Elmo song together.

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  589. I LOVE Melissa and Doug. VERY well made items, that last, and I love my kids to have. They’re just so durable and adorable! Plus, my little girl LOVES pretend food and all that goes with it! This would be perfect!

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  612. Melissa & Doug make the greatest products!

    (posted on my blog about your giveaways, included button on both that post and my sidebar).

    Thanks for the chance!

    leoandchelle at yahoo dot com

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  623. My daughter would absolutely love this. She has a lemonade/bake sale in our yard every year to benefit the American Cancer Society, and she would think she is hot stuff with this. Thank you for the opportunity.

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  629. My grandkids would absolutely love this! A great way for them to play together. My favorite Sesame Street moment was when my daughter was younger she would not sit still for 5 minutes EVER until she discovered Sesame Street. She would sit and watch the entire show so for 1 hour every day I was happy to have her watch. Thank you!

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  649. I LOVE Melissa and Doug toys. Maybe even more than my kids do. My favorite sesame street characters were the yip yips. So funny! Thanks!

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  651. How great! My daugther loves to pretend!! The other day she put a halloween size bag of popcorn in the microwave on her play kitchen, pushed some buttons, said “beep beep. REA-Y”

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  687. I love Melissa & Doug products! This looks like so much fun! (I posted about the Christmas Giveaway and included a button on my blog)

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