How to Buy Wooden Play Food

Wooden play food and pretend kitchen accessories made from wood are classic toys that last and provide countless hours of quality play. Many parents prefer their children to play with natural-material toys and look for wooden play food for their kids' play kitchens. Montessori and Waldorf-based education centers often have wooden play food for preschoolers' pretend play.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Shop for wooden play food in toy stores and department stores in the months proceeding Christmas when many extra toys are in stock. Look in the pretend play sections to find what is available.
2. Consider a wooden play food set from Little Wonderland online. The wooden blender set includes a wood blender with removable lid, wooden cups and spoon and sliceable wooden fruit (including strawberries and bananas) with Velcro attaching the different sections together. Also look at the toaster set, which comes with bread and bagel slices, butter, a wooden knife and the toaster.
3. Check out toymaker Melissa & Doug's wooden sandwich making set. It contains wooden bread, meats and sandwich fixings for a creative pretend wooden play food option. Also look at their Pizza party wooden food set and their wooden birthday cake. Purchase Melissa & Doug toys in toys stores, Amazon and other online outlets, such as TamboToys.
4. Buy a FairTrade toy by shopping at EthicalBabe.com for a wooden fruit or wooden vegetable set. Each set contains several pieces of wooden play food and a wooden knife for slicing.
5. Buy the wooden play food you think the recipient will most enjoy, and if possible be there to explore the new toy with the child when he opens the gift.