Play Food - Vegetable Basket, 6 pcs

A lovely handwoven basket filled with wooden vegetables, ideal for your child’s pretend grocery store.

Leek, red pepper, mushroom, avocado, turnip, and pumpkin.

Perfect for role play, where your child can copy everyday situations like grocery shopping, cooking, or running a little café. It’s a great way to expand your child’s knowledge and vocabulary by chatting about where food comes from, when we usually eat it, and where it goes after we swallow it.

When children act out everyday activities through role play, they build a better understanding of the world around them. With play food, your child can explore food in ways that might not be allowed with real ingredients or at the dinner table. Through play, children experiment with rules, boundaries, social interaction, and their own sense of identity. You can also take the fun a step further by setting up a little shop, maybe with small signs and prices. It’s a fun way to explore numbers and letters together while encouraging your child to practise good manners and simple math. When children play together with play food, they learn to cooperate, take turns, communicate, and compromise.

The activity is great for your child's well-being and ability to learn:

• Gives your child plenty of opportunities to unleash their imagination.
• Excellent for role play, where children practise taking turns to lead and finding their own place in the game. This benefits your child's empathy and ability to work with others.
• Strengthens social skills, which, according to childcare professionals and elementary school teachers, are more important for students to practise than learning about math and historical events.

Measures 15,5 x 15,5 x 5,5 cm.
Suitable for children aged 3 yrs. to 6 yrs.

Have conversations about what happens to food inside the body, where our food comes from, and when we usually eat it. This is great for your child’s vocabulary and knowledge. Play food is great for imaginative play, which inspires your child to imitate real-life situations such as cooking, shopping, or going to a café.

Through role play, your child can gain experience with rules, boundaries, and opportunities for identity formation and social interaction. When children play with play food together, they practise how to take turns, communicate and work together to reach compromises. You can also use the play food to play grocery store and practise writing little signs, coming up with prices and special offers, and practising polite phrases. Your child can take payment at the cash register and give back change, which improves their math skills.

Do you know Tender Leaf?

Tender Leaf Toys makes lovely quality wooden toys which are manufactured at a family-owned factory in Indonesia. Every year, the Tender Leaf Toys team spend 2 months at the factory developing toys and becoming part of the workplace along with the staff.

The company has been recognised by the ICTI Ethical Toy Program for their efforts to make the production process more socially and environmentally sustainable.

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