Play Kitchens Guide

With Learning Resources Multicultural Foods, your child’s imaginary world will be expanded to a new international dimension with the Learning Resource’s line of pretend play food. The little chef in your house can cook up an assortment of favored cuisine that can be found in a variety of countries. This amazingly realistic play set will stimulate your child’s imagination as well as provide a cultural awareness of the world around them. A child’s creativity will abound while he/she pretends to prepare the play kitchen food as well as to taste or to serve their culinary creations to their family or friends whether they are real or not.

The set includes a 13-piece sampling of different food items from a variety of other countries, including France, Spain, and Japan. This includes food items such as a hot dog in a bun, pizza, spaghetti with meat sauce, croissant, taco, flan, Spanish rice, egg roll, fried dumpling, big bun and salmon sushi. An activity guide is also included to instruct and to encourage different ideas for playtime adventures with this play food. These food items are very realistic replicas of the actual food they are designed to emulate including the size, color, and details. The products are safely designed with small children in mind. The soft, non-toxic plastic makes it safe to play with, and the size of each piece is large enough to prevent it from being swallowed. In addition, there aren’t any small pieces that can come loose and fall off.

In our opinion, the best thing about the Learning Resources Multicultural Foods, besides the fun factor, is the educational aspect discovered within this product. The cultural awareness provided through the different food items is at the top of the list in the learning opportunities this product provides. Parents or caregivers can use the food items to talk to their children about cultural differences or similarities. The children can learn different things about the countries from which these foods originate. By providing a child with cultural awareness, this will help them learn to be more accepting of the multitude of diversity that surrounds them, especially when they start school.

It can also be used as a learning opportunity for parents to teach their child about nutritional information in the different foods and basic cooking skills. When the it is used in combination with Learning Resource’s play kitchen appliances, a child can learn many different things. They can learn about different food groups, food recognition, kitchen utensils, as well as safety. As a bonus, this eliminates the incredible mess and worry that occurs when you allow the little ones to assist you in the real kitchen chores.

The Learning Resources Multicultural Foods is designed for children 3 to 7 years of age to entertain them, to educate them, and to arouse their amazing curiosity. Kids will have a blast pretending to cook the food as well as to eat it. This can provide them with hours of entertainment, and it might even keep them out of your kitchen.