Gift Ideas for Kids: Pretend Play Food Sets
60 | My kids have had this set for over two years and it still gets lots of use/play from them - the longevity makes it so worthwhile! Amazon Price: $11.22 List Price: $19.99 |
Melissa and Doug Wooden Sandwich Making Set
Kids love to use their imagination and pretend play toys can play a large role in inspiring their creativity and learning. Melissa and Doug makes great toys for kids; it is one of the more popular toy brands. This Wooden Sandwich Making Set is no exception. It includes 16 wooden colorful pieces - cold cuts, garden vegetables, cheeses, and bread. Each piece has velcro inserts, so they stay together when stacked into sandwich creations. Your child will enjoy making you sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert! This set comes with a play wooden knife and is packaged in a wooden crate which can be used to store this toy set when not in use.
Learning Resources Play Food Baskets
Learning Resources is another toy brand that offers excellent educational toys for kids. These play food baskets are great because it has a realism similar to that of the local grocery store and your child will love to pretend they are "shopping" for groceries - at least mine do!
 | Amazon Price: $12.97 List Price: $22.99 |
 | Amazon Price: $12.97 List Price: $22.99 |
 | Warning: if you're giving this to a young child, be sure to remove some of the smaller pieces first (she'll never miss 'em since there's so many pieces!) Amazon Price: $24.54 List Price: $39.99 |
Step 2 Play Food
This play food set from Step 2 is a great first set to introduce the fun of playing pretend with food to your children.
The set has 101 pieces and includes food items such as tacos, eggs, broccoli, grapes, breads, pizza, pies and so much more. This was the first pretend food set that my daughters ever had and they loved it - we still have most of the items.
Ice Cream Parlor, Slice & Bake Cookies and Birthday Cake
These sets by Melissa and Doug are huge hits in many houses with kids. The Ice Cream Parlor includes four magnetic scoops of ice cream, two magnetic scoopers, and two cones. Kids will have a lot of fun scooping and stacking.
The Slice and Bake Cookie Set is a great all-inclusive set, with a "baking sheet" with velcro inserts, a dozen wooden, slice-able cookies with velcro inserts, cookie "toppings", a wooden knife and spatula, a durable dough tube that can store all the cookies, and a play oven mitt.
There will be a birthday celebration every day with the Birthday Party Birthday Cake! The set includes 6 cake slices, a serving plate, 19 toppings, 7 candles, a wooden spatula, and a storage box. Click on the link to the left to see a video demonstration of this set.
 | Amazon Price: $11.29 List Price: $19.99 |
 | Amazon Price: $10.49 List Price: $19.99 |
 | This is a simple stacking ice cream cone set that has eight different color "scoops" and two cones - don't let the word "simple" mislead you, though - this set has been HUGELY popular with my kids for the last 2+ years as well as with every kid (girl and boy) that has ever been to our house to play! Amazon Price: $14.12 List Price: $17.99 |
 | Amazon Price: $4.99 List Price: $11.99 |
Small World Living Toys
These Small World Living Toys would make a great addition to any child's playroom or play kitchen.All the pieces have velcro so they stay together well, yet come apart easy, too, for pretend "cutting" or "scooping".
My kids have had these for years and they still play with them; they are very durable, as is everything featured on this page!
More Play Food Sets and Educational Toys:
For more play food sets, as well as other educational toys from Learning Resources, click here. Also, see links below for more great gift ideas. Happy shopping and Happy Holidays!
