Top 5 Best Play Food Sets

Play food sets have always been popular children’s toys, but the only difference today is that there are more choices than ever. In addition to being loads of fun, play food sets allow children to think beyond the box and simultaneously enhance their creative skills.

Play kitchen sets not only allow kids to use their imagination, but also help boost their social skills, something that is highly important in the world we live in. That said, here are 5 of the best play food sets available to keep your little one engaged for hours.

KidKraft, Deluxe Cookware Set

This deluxe cookware set by KidKraft includes 11 high quality food pieces and cookware including one chicken leg, two pieces of broccoli, one carrot, one egg, one metal pot, two metal pans, one metal ladle and one metal spatula. Adding to this, this set can be used in combination with any other KidKraft play food sets to make play time even more real and engaging.

Highlights of the KidKraft Cookware Set

• 11 total pieces
• Can be used in combination with other KidKraft sets
• No assembly required
• Delicious play food items includes such as chicken, broccoli and an egg
• High quality metal utensils

This food play set is an excellent choice for any young chef in your life, and you can rest assured it will last for years to come considering the pans are constructed of high quality metal. Weighing just 1.8 lbs, the KidKraft Cookware Set is designed to make time engaging and real than ever before and is perfectly suited for kids of ages 3 years and over.

Melissa & Doug Cutting Food

Designed to enhance imagination and creativity, the Melissa and Doug cutting food set contains eight high quality pieces of wooden food, a wooden knife and cutting board. This set is manufactured by a company with over 25 years experience in crafting quality products in the kids arena including pretend play toys and games to classic wooden toys.

Highlights of the Melissa and Doug Cutting Food Set

• Contains 8 pieces including a wooden knife and cutting board
• Manufactured by an esteemed toy company
• Entire set weighs just 3 lbs
• Durable and crafted of high quality

Their products are built to a level of superior quality, safety, service and value and this cutting food set is no different. This play food set is perfectly suited for kids aged two and older and is fundamentally designed to teach motor skills and hand eye coordination. Cutting food such as those included in this set can enhance cognitive development too, and teach color recognition, sorting, number skills and fractions.

Learning Resources New Sprouts Bushel of Fruit

Designed for ages 2 years and over, this 10 piece food play set is designed to enhance vocabulary, and reinforce good nutrition. This produce set includes strawberry, apple, plum, banana,, lemon, apricot, orange, grapes and pear, all stored in a handy, nicely designed bushel basket.

Highlights of the New Sprouts Bushel of Fruit

• Includes 10 pieces
• Perfectly suited for kids of ages 2 years and older
• Fruits can be stored easily in the included bushel basket
• Crafted of high quality plastic

Weighing just 11.4 ounces, this bushel basket makes a great choice for a young chef and is perfectly suited in for home play and in a daycare. If you’re looking for a play food set that will provide hours of fun while enhancing child development, the New Sprouts Bushel of Fruit is an excellent choice.

Felt Food – Sandwich Set

Made using the highest quality materials, this 33 piece felt food set is brought to you by Melissa and Doug – one of the leading names in the children’s toys arena. This sandwich set encourage role play and comes along with condiments and allows your little one to chose from three key roles – a server, chef or customer.

Highlights of the Felt Food Sandwich Set

• Encourages creative role play
• Includes condiments
• 33 felt sandwich items included
• Extra friction on each food piece to ensure the final output stays together

Unlike plastic or wood toy food, the felt pieces in this play food set stack easily, and the texture of each item add the necessary friction to ensure your child’s masterpieces stay together. Each food item is well crafted with dense stuffing and tight stitching for the egg and different types of breads.

Furthermore, each food piece features the right thickness to mimic near life size pieces and the printed pieces have details on both sides. Thoughtful details such as printed seeds and textures on the tomatoes and stitched veins on the lettuce allow children to identify each food item’s real world counterpart.

Adding to this, the various colors of the food items such as wheat and white bread as well as pickles and cucumbers offer an easy, natural vocabulary lesson. If you’re looking for a play food set that is built of high quality and enhances your child’s development while encouraging fun play, this Felt Set by Melissa and Doug is worth exploring.

Tasty Treats Play Food Set 

With 105 food pieces to play with, the Tasty Treats Play Food Set should be on top of your list for any young chef. Brought to you by one of the esteemed names in the kid’s toy business – Kid Kraft, this food piece set required no assembly and can be combined with any other KidKraft play kitchens.

Highlights of the Tasty Treats Play Food Set

• Weighs just 2.2 lbs
• 105 pieces includes pizza, snacks, vegetables, waffles and more
• No assembly required
• Can be combined with other KidKraft kitchen toy sets

Mad of high quality plastic, this play food set is ideally suited for kids of ages 3 and over and each piece is well sized to replicate real life food items. With regards to safety, this food set is plastic BPA free and is also EU certified. With a 105 food pieces, this play food set is bound to keep your little one busy for hours on end and is a great choice for home use as well as daycare.