The Fisher-Price Sweet Magic Kitchen offers a plethora of play options. This play kitchen can give your child some heavy-duty pretend baking experiences. This kitchen includes a refrigerator, side storage space, an overhead pantry, a sink, a stove top with knobs and burners, and an oven. The sweet treats your little one makes “looks” as though they might be real because they change colors after they are “cooked.”
A cookbook comes built-in with this toy kitchen so kids can see what their treat is supposed to look like before and after baking. The Fisher-Price Sweet Magic Kitchen even provides an “icing bag” that has a soft tip to let kids decorate their culinary works of art when complete. Naturally, a kitchen such as this one has to also have a mixing bowl, baking dish, a whisk, a spatula, and a potholder. Along with those accessories are two plates, two “water goblets,” a pitcher, a spoon, a fork, a cake stand, a cake mix, an egg, a milk carton, and a four-cake topper. Additionally, there’s a phone – for taking those call-in bakery orders!
Play kitchens are designed to be fun and also to spur an interest in cooking and the preparation of food. They can be educational as well as fun, and all the children our staff observed at the testing session of this product just loved it. There are so many options on this toy that imaginations can take flight and soar for hours. The kitchen needs three size “D” batteries to operate, and they are not included with the toy.
Kids also like the catchy tunes that play while waiting for the food to “cook”. It is happy, energetic, and fun music. A few complaints were noted about the color of the food – it is supposed to turn different colors after it is “cooked” in the oven and sometimes the colors don’t stay changed very long. One mom recommended setting the cooking tray close to the ice tray to help the colors turn and stay longer, so that’s one thing to try. On further inspection, it was discovered that the oven has a “removable cooling unit” that must be completely frozen from being in your freezer before it will change the colors of the food. When the ice tray is placed in the oven and the switch is turned on, a fan (courtesy of the three “D” batteries) comes on to blow the treats cool and into a color change. It’s a special technology to have the food show different colors after it is baked. Also, on a couple of the units, the oven door was a little difficult to get it to stay closed, staff noted.
As a child’s toy kitchen, this unit has a fantastic array of accessories, shelves, and storage options. Kids care about accessories and the ability to play with the toy and “work” at the stove like mommy and daddy. The Fisher-Price Sweet Magic Kitchen lets them role-play their cooking and baking parts. At the same time, they are learning about foods and recipes. The playset provides an outlet for creative and imaginative cooking and baking skills and allows abilities to unfold. How many a master chef has got his/her start in just such a toy kitchen? The kids we observed had tons of fun playing at cooking.
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