Christmas Gift 11 Pcs Wooden Cooking Kitchen Toy Play Set Imaginative Pretend order Play Pots Pans Plates Cutlery Tray Sensory Play

10 Pcs Wooden Cooking Kitchen Toy Play Set Imaginative Pretend Play Pots Pans Plates Cutlery Tray Cups Cooker Kids Sensory Grains Play

Super cute large set of kids size wooden kitchen toys.

Perfect starter set with all the essentials for a kids play kitchen. Works well with grains and loose parts play ideas!

4 plates of 10 cm.
4 glasses
1 pitcher
1 pot 10-12 cm. with lid
1 pan 10-12 cm.

Made from linden wood.

The Benefits of Play Kitchens for Children

Creativity and Imagination

Kitchen role play is an exciting and fun activity, which stretches the children's imagination and enriches their creativity. It gives children the chance to concoct their own imaginative recipes and explore different pretend ingredients. They enjoy experimenting with the various pretend utensils and appliances to create imaginative scenarios, either mimicking actions of adults they have seen or formulating their own uses for the objects they use.

Language and Communication

Role play gives children the opportunity to express themselves creatively and engage in storytelling. Children vocally enact the role that they are playing, which enhances their language development and communication. Kitchen role play widens a child's vocabulary as they begin to learn the names of new objects and foods, whilst also using new verbs such as “cook” and “stir” and opposites such as “hot” and “cold”.

Social Skills and Teamwork

Play kitchens encourage the little ones to engage in play with other children, which enhances their social development. They create discussions around who will play what role, what they should cook and how they are going to do it. This inspires children to work as a team and cooperate so that they can get the job done quicker – encouraging them to share, take turns and listen to other people's opinions and ideas about what to cook.

Planning and Organisation

Children typically enjoy the process of organising their pretend kitchens – determining different roles and organising different food types into sections. They tend to discover that kitchen play becomes a more enjoyable activity if their play kitchen is organised. Children may store their pretend ingredients away in the cupboards and neatly organise the plates and cutlery for their guests – all whilst planning what they are going to cook next and who will get what meal!

Life Skills

When children engage in kitchen role play, they are acting out real life occupations and situations that they are familiar with. This teaches children the basic cooking and cleaning concepts, which enriches their understanding of the world and develops their life skills. Whether they are pretending to set the table, wash the dishes or bake a cake, kitchen role play tends to heighten their empathy for others because it gives them an insight into what it would be like to cook in the kitchen or work as a chef.

Independence and Self-Confidence

By providing children with their own play kitchen, it gives them a sense of independence, which increases their self-confidence. They fully adopt the role of working in a kitchen and become responsible for keeping it clean, organising the belongings and caring for the different items in the kitchen. When children undertake real life kitchen roles and play superior roles such as head chefs, they also start to develop great leadership qualities as well.

Problem Solving

Kitchen role play enhances a child's cognitive ability and problem-solving skills. If problems arise, such as a fork going missing, it forces children to come up with a solution – whether that is substituting the fork for something else or going out of their way to find the lost order item.

Numeracy

Play kitchens also help to improve a child's numeracy skills. Children may count how many plates they need, weigh ingredients or count how many minutes the food needs to be in the oven for, which enhances their mathematical learning while they play.

Visual Recognition

Play kitchens give children the opportunity to identify new objects and food. You can stock play kitchens with a variety of items, which also gives children the chance to categorise the different food types and utensils as well.

Healthy Food Choices

By promoting different types of pretend food, such as fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat, it encourages children to make healthier food choices. They imagine the food they have cooked in appetising scenarios, which tends to encourage them to try eating that food in real life as well.