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Melissa & Doug Food Groups

Autor admin | 12.12.2010 | Category Home and Family

• 21-piece food set
• Includes all 4 food groups
• Each group stored separately
• Recommended Age Range 3 Years and up

Product Description
Who’s hungry? Mix and match to make a yummy meal. This 21-piece set is full of well-balanced, nutritious pretend food. All four food groups are individually boxed in sturdy wooden crates for storage, sorting, and stacking.

Melissa & Doug Food Groups

Melissa & Doug Wooden Sandwich-Making Set

Autor admin | 08.12.2010 | Category Home and Family

• Kids love hearing the realistic “crunch” as they slice their way through these brightly-colored, solid-wood food sets
• Smooth-sanded pieces and superior craftsmanship make these value-packed sets ones kids will enjoy again and again!
• Includes 16 colorful, wooden pieces

Product Description
This Sandwich-Making Wooden Play Set includes colorful likenesses of meaty cold cuts, garden vegetables and fresh bread. The entire pieces feature Velcro inserts, so keeping sandwich creations together is no problem. A play wooden knife rounds out the collection. The kit comes packaged in a 12″ X 10″ wooden crate. Also, it includes 18 mix-and-match pieces total.

Melissa & Doug Wooden Sandwich-Making Set

Melissa & Doug Classic Deluxe Kitchen

Autor admin | 06.12.2010 | Category Home and Family

• A little chef’s dream kitchen. There’s plenty of space for every culinary activity
• Prepare, cook, clean and create in this gorgeous wooden kitchen. Includes a sturdy stovetop, roomy refrigerator, fancy freezer, see-through oven with knobs that turn, microwave with turntable, and spacious sink
• Sizeable storage, beautiful detailing and bright, colorful graphics, all for an exceptional price!
• Sturdy and durable, newly redesigned engineering for easy assembly, here is the one perfect place to play with your food!

Product Description
Melissa & Doug Classic Deluxe Kitchen Everything your child needs to cook up some fun! With a sturdy stove top, roomy refrigerator, fancy freezer, see-through oven with knobs that turn, microwave with turntable, and spacious sink, your little one will have everything they need to prepare a feast. Sizeable storage, beautiful detailing and bright, colorful graphics, all for an exceptional price! Order the Melissa & Doug Classic Deluxe Kitchen today!Amazon.com Review
The Melissa and Doug Deluxe Kitchen offers outstanding design features and sturdy wood construction that will provide your children with years of serious kitchen fun. Although a bit pricey, this is a kitchen set that has few rivals in terms of safety features, durability, and overall design. Recommended for children three years and older, this kitchen includes a stove top, refrigerator and freezer, see-through oven, microwave, sink, and plenty of storage space.

The deluxe kitchen set is solid and has lots of activities. View larger.

Kids will love working at the kitchen, pretending to make meals. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Sturdy wood construction pre-painted with durable acrylic paint Rounded corners and several safety features; Fun, bold colors ideal for younger children The Bad: Up to four-hour assembly time required; A bit pricey In a Nutshell: Long lasting, durable, wood kitchen set that children will enjoy for years. At a Glance Ages: 6 and up Requires: Phillips and flat screwdriver

Set-Up Time and Design Features
Before you invest in this set, be prepared for four or more hours of set-up time. To assemble this Deluxe Kitchen Set, you’ll be asked to connect over 30 separate sold-wood pieces together with more than 170 nuts, bolts, screws and hinges.

Don’t panic! The good news is that the instructions couldn’t be any easier to follow. If you know how to use a screwdriver and a hex key, you can do it. (A power screwdriver would speed things up quite a bit.) You’ll also want a second set of hands on call due to the set’s weight–the finished product weighs over 90 pounds.

To ease assembly, each wooden piece is color coded and pre-drilled, making it virtually impossible to make mistakes. Just be certain to give yourself plenty of floorspace and time before you start, and with so many easy-to-swallow pieces, you’ll want the kids to be fast asleep.

The great news is that once the set is assembled, there is a very good chance that it will outlast your child’s interest in make-believe kitchens by more than a few years. This kitchen is incredibly well-constructed and designed; you’ll consider it as much of a piece of furniture as a child’s toy. It would take an extremely determined and strong child with a heavy object to harm it. And if you treat it well, it could easily become an heirloom to pass down to the next generation of young chefs.

A nice safety feature parents will love is that there are no sharp angles that can harm stumbling children; every wood piece has been rounded at the corners, and every knob and faucet similarly features soft curves designed specially with toddlers in mind. Each wooden piece and metal hinge is pre-painted with a hard, durable acrylic. All the screws and bolts are recessed, and the see-through oven and microwave feature unbreakable plastic windows.

When completed, the set measures approximately 41x42x17 inches (HxWxD).

What the Aspiring Chef Needs
Although this set is recommended for children three years of age and older, one of our test children who was two years old loved every macaroni-and-cheese making minute of her time with it. On her tiptoes she could reach the microwave and storage cabinet (the set stands over three feet tall), and over the next several months of growing she will assuredly gain greater satisfaction with easier use of the top shelves. Our slightly taller three-year old test boy also had to reach a bit, but neither one of them minded in the least.

The stove dials and sink faucet and assemblies turn freely, which made it easy for the kids to use. Each of the doors is held shut by an adjustable plastic door latch that provides just enough tension to keep them from swinging freely but still easy for the kids to open. The stove,

With rounded corners all around, children won’t have to worry about sharp edges. View larger.

microwave, and refrigerator each feature simply painted details, such as timers, temperature gauges and a ice maker. It’s possible that as kids grow older, they may want more realistic details, but for toddlers, the bright and bold colors and simple designs are perfect. This is make-believe, after all.

Be forewarned that the set itself does not come with any cooking utensils or other assecories. We purchased a Melissa and Doug Kitchen Accessory Set before assembling the kitchen and were glad we did. Our children adopted the wooden pans and spoons immediately, and within minutes they were cooking blue pizza, apple sauce soup, and mango sorbet.

While the related accessories would be nice, as long as your children use appropriate objects, such as wooden or plastic utensils and pans, their creations will be just as scrumptious. (Aside from the safety factor, metal objects in the hands of an energetic child will scratch the paint over time.)

Overall Impressions
Our basic criticisms for this kitchen set are that it’s pricey, it takes a long time to assemble, and it’s heavy. But this kitchen set is the real deal. It doesn’t include cheap plastic detailing that will break easily. Don’t consider this a mere toy; think of it as a fun piece of furniture that will provide your child with years of imaginative play. In this day and age of disposable products, we can’t offer a great compliment to any toy than to predict that it will likely outlast your children’s make-believe years.

Melissa & Doug Classic Deluxe Kitchen