Canberra Kids Market: recycling, reducing and reusing

Posted on 17 June, 2019

Winter is here and it’s a great season to declutter.

If you’re surrounded by stuff the kids have outgrown, no longer use or are bored with, now is the time to apply for a stall for the Canberra Kids Market, to be held on Saturday 29 June.

It’s quick and easy to apply online and the market—Canberra’s biggest of its kind—is a great way to make some cool cash selling unwanted clothes, toys, books, games, accessories, furniture, strollers and other equipment. Individuals and business are both welcome to apply.

The Canberra Kids Market is not only a place to sell, but it’s also a place to shop for new and pre-loved kids gear.

More than 80 stallholders usually pop up and there are 1,750 square metres of shopping for babies, toddlers and kids through to teens. Visitors will find designer labels and big-name brands, as well as super deals on pre-loved goods.

Stallholders change with every market.

“Some stallholders are mums and dads selling excess kids gear at bargain prices and once they’ve decluttered they move on,” says co-founder Cathie Wall. “Others sell new products. Start-up or new businesses see our market as a low-cost way to test products and ideas to visitors who get to experience new innovations.”

Hands Off baby wraps

New to the 29 June market is Hands Off baby wraps for mums and bubs who want to let people know not to touch their little ones. They’re perfect for helping to avoid awkward conversations.

Bath-a-licious will be on hand with vibrant, scented bath bombs that will fill the bathroom will amazing smells and get the kids to enjoy getting clean.

Bath-a-licious.

Luck McClements will sell his originally designed posters for kids featuring cartoon animals and other characters.

Returning to the market is Superboober with an amazing range of breast milk boosting lactation cookies, crackers, teas and granola bars, as well as other breastfeeding supplies such as pumps, reusable breast pads, covers, oils, nursing bras and more.

SuperBoober.

Giggly Wiggly will entertain the kids while parents shop for bargains, creating balloons of all shapes and colours.

Cathie says the Canberra Kids Market has a strong environmental focus.

“It’s about the circular economy—recycling, reducing and reusing,” says Cathie. “Stallholders get to make money out of items too good to discard and, in doing, so avoid tossing items into landfill where they take decades to break down.”

Giggly Wiggly.

The Canberra Kids Market has been around for more than 12 years. The next market is on Saturday 29 June, Fitzroy Pavilion, EPIC. Entry is just $3 (kids under 12 free) and parking is free. It’s only minutes from the city with public transport available and the tram stopping on EPIC’s doorstep.

New stallholders can apply at www.canberramarkets.net.au

This is the last market to be held at EPIC. The Canberra Kids Market will then move to a new home, Fitters Workshop in Kingston, for the two remaining markets of 2019—6 October and 17 November.

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