This month, cool off in city fountains, relax on urban beaches and build your own ice lollies with your preschooler.
Independent Shops
Clare Jay is the Creative Director of eenymeeny. She lives in Tufnell Park with her husband, their three kids and their doggy.
Daisy Hollings runs Telling Tales children’s bookshop in London Fields. She lives in Homerton with her boyfriend, their two daughters and their husky.
There’s an in-store bench where you can sit and peruse the vast range of books with a massive cuddly tiger for company.
The Corner House is less a play cafe and more a small, well-planned city in which to play, eat, drink, meet and learn.
The shop is adorable and the selection is perfect. The sale is also absolutely brilliant with loads of massive reductions.
Everything is so stylish it’s borderline ridiculous, plus I love kids’ shops with play areas, even if they’re too nice to use
Fount is the parental utopia you’ve always dreamed of but never believed could exist because life just isn’t that kind
Modern furniture, textiles, wall art and cartoon softies designed to look as good outside the nursery as in it
What?: For one weekend only, silly-cute online boutique Greenberry Kids set up shop in Hampstead’s adorable Maison Auguste. The result? A cacophony of enraptured coos and squees as visitors lingered over rails filled with Monbebe bunny bonnet-and-babygrow sets complete with ears and fluffy tails
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