We get asked so often for suggested activities for young children. If you are a parent of one of them your never-ending search for family fun might be over for now as The Playground market in Braamfontein has developed a fun and educational children's programme aimed at keeping the kids occupied and giving you some peace.

Taking place every Saturday at the market, bring the bambinos along to the market to learn how to reuse the flotsam and jetsam of our planet in a fun-filled makers workshop led by Visual Art students from the University of Johannesburg.

They will leave each 90-minute session with an upcycled item to take home that was built nearly entirely from organic materials like seeds and clay or from scrap paper and plastic. This leaves you about 90 minutes to savour the delicacies of The Playground market while the kids are occupied - under the inventive supervision of the students and the attentive eye of a chaperone.