When the holiday season draws near, my kids start asking when they can help with making cookies and holiday cupcakes and other red and green-themed sweet treats. Imagine their despair when they realize that I am not a holiday baker. Santa would be ashamed of me, as a matter of fact. The only cookies I have attempted were a very simple sugar cookie which had to be re-made twice because of my ignorance of some key instructions in the ingredient list. That being said, my kids really enjoy being in the kitchen and playing with all of the gadgets they can find therein. Thank goodness for the Little Tikes Cook ‘n Grow Kitchen for giving my kids a setup to make as many Christmas cookies and holiday fruitcakes as their big imaginations can create.
Santa himself would be proud of this kitchen (despite his shame of my holiday baking enthusiasm). Equipped with every detail you might find in a real kitchen, it is just about the coolest “real” toy you have ever seen. It has a refrigerator with a built-in water/ice dispenser (which we don’t even have in our actual kitchen), a cordless phone (with its very own hook), and even an exhaust hood for the oven range. With a barbecue-style supply of food items and enough plasticware for a holiday potluck, your kiddos will be able to create their own Secret Santa party with all the fixins’.
Having a varied age group under my roof, my favorite part of this play kitchen is the ability to transition it from the younger set to the older kid bracket. The big-kid version is the perfect height for your preschooler (and more compact, if your play area is limited, as mine is) and a widened version for your toddler, providing lower, more reachable areas for your little baker-in-training. Either stage will provide a ton of fun and creativity for any age group. The kitchen set has 26 accessories, including silverware, plates, cups, and a pot which doubles as a shape sorter (even my 6 year old will love fitting the star into the star-shaped cutout!). And so, I honestly CAN. NOT. WAIT. until I can give them the Little Tikes Cook ‘n Grow Kitchen in T minus 35 days. Christmas can’t be very far away…..can it???
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Lexi R
November 25, 2013 at 1:29 amThis is great little kid stuff for learning how to be in the kitchen.
Olivia Rubin
November 21, 2013 at 9:04 pmI love al the little tikes products and can’t wait until my niece is old enough so she can have them. Yeah, she is only one month so there is some time! This kitchen is so cute, but I think we will get her a toll bench so she can be daddy’s helper