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 Simplicity 2445 Childrens FELT Pretend PLAY FOOD Craft PATTERN NEW $4.99 Time Remaining: 20d 16h 18m Buy It Now for only: $4.99 |
 Simplicity 2445 Childs Play Pretend Toy Food Sewing Pattern $0.99 Time Remaining: 3d 7h 54m |
 Simplicity 2445 Play Food Sewing Pattern $7.00 Time Remaining: 28d 23h 52m Buy It Now for only: $7.00 |
 Mini Cupcake Cup Cake Tea Party Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Fruit Banana Apple Kiwi Berry Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 52m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Felt Play Food Pattern Baking Bowl Child Size Chef Hat $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 11m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Groceries Market Tote Milk Eggs Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 51m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Vegetables Veggie Lettuce Felt Play Food Pattern CD ROM $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 48m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Felt Play Food Pattern Teapot Tea Party Set Dishes Cup $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Pattern for Grill Burger Hot Dog Steak Felt Play Food $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 46m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Pattern Pizza Chicken Wing Breadstick Play Felt Food $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 PB J Sandwich Fun Lunch Meal Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 50m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Gingerbread Cookie Candy House Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 11m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 CUPCAKE Pincushion sew quilt craft gift baby girl party doll play food knit toy $4.95 Time Remaining: 4d 3h 28m |
 Pattern Appetizer Shrimp Deviled Eggs Play Felt Food $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 56m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Tea Party Cookie Petit Four Felt Play Food Toy Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 49m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Pancake Egg Breakfast Felt Play Food Meal Pattern CDROM $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 48m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Turkey Chicken Leg Meal Felt Play Food Pattern DIY $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 49m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Felt Food Pattern Cookie Jar Rolling Pin Kitchen Play $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 55m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Cereal Box Canned Goods Can Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 18d 14h 55m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Apple Key Lime Pumpkin Pie Slice Felt Play Food Pattern $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 13m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
 Pattern for Grill Burger Hot Dog Steak Felt Play Food $6.50 Time Remaining: 28d 13h 11m Buy It Now for only: $6.50 |
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Play Food
Toy Food: Educational Holiday Gifts That are Fun!
All children love to play with toy food and dish sets. Boys and girls alike want to use their imaginations to pretend to cook and set the table just like Mom and Dad. When you’re looking to buy toy food, toy pots and pans, and other cooking type toys, look for items that are versatile and those that closely resemble the real foods and dishes. If promoting healthy eating is the most important thing to you, look for both wood and plastic pretend play vegetables. Each has its own benefits depending on venue used and age of child.
Benefits:
- Keeping kids busy while mom is cooking dinner can be tricky. Play food can be the perfect distraction. If you are setting the table you can encourage your little one to set her own table with a pretend play dish set. Kid Kraft makes two sets both with 27 pieces each. Pastel for girls and primary so boys can feel included too. Or if you are cooking dinner she can bring out something like the Food Groups Set by Melissa and Doug. If she has a play kitchen, Melissa & Doug has a wonderful set of pots and pans so she can cook just like Mom.
- Kids love to re-enact daily life. One of the most fundamental things we do is eat so kids just love pretending to prepare, serve and eat food. Providing kids with a wide variety of play food gives them ample opportunity to use their imaginations and have fun. An added benefit is that once they play with their own pretend food, they might actually try foods they’ve turned their nose up in the past.
- Pretend play food and cooking utensils can be very educational. Just the act of pretending to cook educates children to be socially appropriate. With today’s play food you can add an academic element as well. Learning Resources has a wide array of Smart Snacks to inspire creative play while teaching fundamentals of counting, shapes, and colors at the same time. For example, toys like Counting Cookies are pretend play cookies that have different numbers of candy chips on top with the corresponding number underneath.
Finding the perfect toy food and or cooking items for children is easy with so many items to choose from. Manufacturers like Melissa & Doug, Plan Toys, and Learning Resources make high quality and fair priced items that will be part of your kids toy rotation for years. Kids have endless imaginations and with the right toy food items their creativity will know no bounds.
About the Author
Alycia Shapiro is co-founder of Sensoryedge, a leading web retailer of toy food, pretend play, and unique chiuldrens furniture.
I want to get my daughter a shopping cart and play food, but......?
All the food I see in these play sets are very unhealthy. It's all ice cream, chocolate, and cookies.
Do you know of any healthier play food sets? Also, what suggestions do you have as far as the lil shopping cart goes? I've seen a few with a sitting spot up front just like the real thing... Those are sooooo cute!
This is really for both of my kids. They are 13 months and 36 months.
Look on ETSY at this stuff....if the link does not take you right o it then just put FELT FOOD into the search box.
Pretend Play Kitchen - Felt Food Patterns - from the "Felt Cuisine" Collection