Melissa & Doug Slice and Bake Wooden Cookie Set Ages 3+ 000772040747 Play Food

Bake Up Something Good

Young children naturally love to pretend they’re doing 'grown-up' things-it’s a fun and important part of childhood development. The Melissa & Doug Wooden Slice & Bake Cookie Set lets children ages three and up pretend to bake, decorate, and serve cookies, all while practicing fine motor skills, learning number concepts, and more. The set includes a dozen wooden cookies, a dozen wooden decorating pieces, and toy wooden kitchen utensils. The set features a dozen cookies that are packaged in a cardboard tube that looks just like a tube of cookie dough from the grocery store. Because they’re held together with self-stick tabs, the cookies slide out in one piece. Use the wooden toy knife to 'slice' the cookies apart-and enjoy the satisfying slicing sound when it separates.

The child can then place the cookies on the cookie sheet and pretend the cookies are baking, making sure to hold the 'hot' cookie sheet with the oven mitt once they’re done. (Note that the toy kitchen utensils are not meant for use with real food or with real kitchen appliances).

Once the cookies are done baking, it’s decorating time! The 12 'vanilla' and 'chocolate' frosting pieces attach to the cookies with with self-stick tabs. They are painted with different, yummy looking sprinkles, candy pieces, and icing patterns, so your child can create a variety of different looking cookies. After the decorating is done, your child can serve them up with the included wooden toy spatula.

The Benefits of Pretend Play

Perfect for preschool-age children, this toy not only offers plenty of opportunity for imaginary play, it also helps small kids exercise their motor skills. It makes a great parent-and-child activity, too. Adults can place custom orders for cookies, play counting and matching games, and more.