Slice And Bake Cookie Set Encourages Your Children to Learn While They Play

What young child doesn't love to pretend to do 'grown-up' things? Apart from being immense fun for the little ones, it's an important part of their childhood development, too. Melissa & Doug's Wooden Slice and Bake Cookie Set helps children aged three and up learn number concepts, practice fine motor skills, and more, by pretending to bake, decorate and serve cookies.

Here are the delights that await your pre-school child: a dozen wooden cookies in a cardboard tube that looks just like a tube of cookie dough from the local store. The cookies are held together with Velcro, so they stay together when slid out of the tube. Your child will love the satisfying 'slicing' sound the Velcro makes as they use the supplied toy wooden knife to 'slice' the cookies apart. Pre-school children may find this part of the process challenging, but fun.

Next the child can place the cookies on the cookie sheet and make pretend that they're baking. Once they're finished, the child can use the oven mitt to handle the 'hot' baking sheet. Now it's time for decorating!

Your child will have endless fun decorating the freshly 'baked' cookies with wooden 'chocolate' and 'vanilla' frosting pieces, which attach to the cookies via Velcro. These pieces are brightly painted to represent different kinds of decoration - sprinkles, icing and candy pieces, so your child can get creative in producing different combination of toppings for the cookies.

Once the decorating is finished, your child will proudly remove the cookies from the tray, using the supplied toy wooden spatula, and serve them to friends and family.

Slice and Bake Cookie Set comes supplied with: toy cookie dough tube, 12 wood cookies, 12 decorative toppings, wooden spatula, wooden cookie tray, toy wooden knife and oven mitt.

Note that these wooden toy kitchen utensils are not intended for use with real food.

Children have immense fun playing with this toy on their own, but it's also great for parent-child interaction.

Adults can play counting and matching games, place custom cookie orders, and any number of other activities to engage the child's imagination. (website-articles.net-Dixon George)