Melissa And Doug Food - Plastic Play Food For Toddlers

Melissa and Doug food sets are designed to encourage children to use their imagination and natural ability to investigate the world around them. Children thrive on interactive game play and toy food is a great way help your child learn about cooking and food whilst they're whiling away their time in imaginative play.

They're a safe, fun way to for parents and children to interact, and anything related to this form of learning is as simple as A B C. All you are doing, when using educational toys, is capitalizing on a childs need to play.

Children get to play, have fun and learn whilst they're doing it. These kinds of toys are generally robust and can be passed down from child to child and, in many ways, there an investment in your childs future and happiness. What could be more wonderful than that?!

Every Melissa and Doug food playset is designed for safe play.

Each one complies with current safety standards so you're assured that the worst thing that can happen when your child is at play is the fact that you're probably going to have to pretend to eat lots of yummy wooden dinners!

Many of the ones available are not only realistic enough to keep children happy, they can also be 'cut', 'chopped' and 'halved' - giving them a further realistic appeal.

This particular selection are all manufactured from wood, so do be aware that whilst they're supremely durable, they will make more noise when they hit the floor.

And though we don't make a habit of dropping dinner on the kitchen floor - toddlers and pre-schoolers are a little more clumsy!

Any one of the sets would make a wonderful gift - birthdays or Christmas - or can simply be bought as an additional play item to enhance your child's kitchen game play.

Melissa And Doug Play Food

There's a wonderful array of Melissa and Doug play food available, more than enough to encourage the young chef or bakeress in your life:

• sandwiches
• baking
• cookies
• fruit
• vegetables
• dairy produce
• desserts
• ice creams
• pizzas
• fridge foods
• exotic fruits
• tinned and pantry items
• sauces and condiments
• picnic food
• candy

There's even a sushi toy food set! Each one can be bought seperately or as a means of complimenting other sets already purchased.

All are great value for money and sure to be a welcome addition to any budding cordon bleu chef's play kitchen.

Melissa And Doug Cutting Food

Melissa and Doug cutting food sets have a little extra funcionality, giving them an added appeal to your busy little cooks.

Each set is designed to be:

• cut up
• cut open
• chopped
• halved
• sliced
• diced

Your pre-schooler can create realistic dinners, sandwiches and more with these hugely popular toy food sets.

And of course - mom can lend an expert eye on the general proceedings, maybe even help eat a dish or too!

The possibilities are endless. Being able to chop and slice their 'food' will allow your child to cook up some wonderful dishes:

• stews
• casseroles
• pies
• serve up pizzas
• sandwiches
• fruit salads
• salad dishes

The list is only limited by your childs imagination and luckily, the average child has a huge capacity when it comes to 'let's pretend'.

Be prepared for lots of fun and interactive play with your child, once you've purchased a toy food play set.

Melissa And Doug Ice Cream

Last on the list is the Melissa and Doug Ice Cream set.

The playset contains four scoops of ice cream, two cones and two ice cream scoops. The whole set is magnetic, which allows your little ice cream parlour king or queen to create delicious super cones - which of course you'll be more than happy to eat!

A great addition to the Melissa and Doug food range and sure to delight any child that loves spending time creating wonderfully realistic looking cuisine in their play kitchen.