5 Ways To Play With Your Food

Teach your kids that playing with your food is a-okay. But just not at the dinner table. Here are five play food sets for your little one to help teach them about the food groups, healthy snacks, organics, how to pile a sandwich and last but not least, how to learn to make you breakfast in bed.

Learning Resources Pretend and Play Healthy Food Snacks Set (above)
Yeah, you won’t find any Cheetos or Oreos in this healthy snack play set but instead you’ll get strawberries, grapes and other natural goodies that look good enough to eat. You can pick it up here for $US19.35

Melissa & Doug Food Groups
Teach your kid all about the four basic foodgroup with this wooden set by Melissa and Doug. This set includes goodies from all four food groups – 21 pieces in all! $US19 here

Plan Toy Breakfast Menu
I have dreams of the day when my little one is old enough to surprise me with a nice breakfast in bed. Sigh. But she can get some practice with the Plan Toys Breakfast Menu set. This wooden set features bacon, bread, sausage, cheese, fried egg, hard boiled egg, salt & pepper, all on a serving try. Available here for $US23.31

Wooden Sandwich Making Set
Oodles of combinations can be created with this kids sandwich set. This wooden kit features Velcro on each side of the pieces for easy piling action. It also comes with a safe wooden knife for slicing through the sandwiches. This 16 piece set is available from Land of Nod here for $US24.95.

Organic Baby Veggies by Under the Nile
Go green with this Organic Baby Veggies set by Under the Nile. This set is made from Egyptian cotton and natural dyes. The set includes a green bean, carrot, eggplant, mushroom, broccoli and tomato. You can pick one up from Chasing Fireflys for $US44.