The Melissa and Doug Playtime Fruits will add an extra dimension of fun and entertainment for children. All kids love to play house or pretend shop for their play kitchen food at the grocery store. Basically, they want to pretend to do just about anything they see Mommy and Daddy do. Role playing is so great to truly inspire their wonderful little imaginations. The play food in this product helps to make their role playing even better. For the parents, it helps encourage the kids to better understand as well as to reinforce what they try to teach them every day about healthy snacks and food. Pretend shopping will be even more fun when the grocery store’s produce aisle is stocked with this delicious and very real looking wooden play food fruit. They could leave them in the crate that comes with this, and pick and choose the ones that are perfectly ripened. The little ones should get a kick out of putting the it in their shopping carts or even in an earth friendly shopping bag. They could even put them in a bag and pretend to weigh them as they have probably seen you do many times before. The possibilities are unlimited, and it is always amazing to see what kids can dream up in their make-believe world.
The Melissa and Doug Playtime Fruits comes with most of the favorite and the most recognizable fruits for kids. There are 8 pieces in all, and this includes, an apple and orange, a plum, banana, lemon, pear, and two strawberries.
These fruits are amazingly real looking in their size, detail, and color. You may think they are real if you see them lying around somewhere in the house. Just make sure the kids don’t try to sneak them into the refrigerator or fruit bowl. After all this is wooden play food, so biting into these would not be very fun. Just keep this in mind when your kids want you to take bites out of their very convincing looking apple or strawberry. This might be a little hard on your teeth. It can always be a good way for you to teach your kids different things. This fruit can certainly help to identify the names of each piece and also the colors. We mentioned weighing these earlier, and this can be a great introduction to weight measurements. If you could find a food scale, they would have a great time with this. Since these are made from wood, you could even set up a little play orchard out in the back yard. This will give them even more active play time, and they should have a blast.
We like everything about the Melissa and Doug Playtime Fruits. They are durable, very realistic, and great for learning; plus, they offer up an infinite amount of fun imaginary play. We just don’t think you can get much better than this. If your kids get tired of the play kitchen food, which we don’t think they will, you can always use them as decorations in a fruit bowl.
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