Play Food - Pick 'n' Sort Food Groups, 26 pcs

Grocery shopping is full of learning moments and a great chance to talk about what different foods are called. Keep the conversation going at home with this set of 22 foods, ready to be sorted into food groups in the four baskets.

The activity supports skill development and is great for your child's well-being:

• Excellent for role play, where children practise finding their own place in the game and not always being in charge. This strengthens your child's social skills.
• Motivates your child to practise social skills, for example being able to lose, listen, trade toys, or wait their turn, being patient and tolerant, and trying to read the situation.

Suitable for children aged 18 mos. to 7 yrs.

Play food is great for role playing, which inspires your child to copy real-life situations such as shopping, cooking, or going to a café. Talk about where our food comes from and what happens to it inside the body. This develops your child’s vocabulary and knowledge.

Role play where children copy real-life activities strengthens their understanding of the world they live in. With play food, your child also gets to be silly and play with food in a way that is maybe not acceptable at mealtime with real food. You can also use the play food to play grocery store and practise greeting customers, writing signs, and calculating special offers. Your child can practise taking payments and giving back change, which improves their math skills.

Practising how to sort objects strengthens your child’s ability to sort through the countless impressions they experience every day. Categorizing and sorting are basically a way of learning and comprehending new concepts, words, and experiences. Before we can understand what something is and what it means, we first need to grasp how it differs from something else.

Quite a few real-life situations demand that we know how to organise and sort – for example, we use that skill when we learn equations, make separate laundry piles, or sort our garbage.

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