Get ready for baking fun with the Oh So Fun! Cookies & Cakes Toy Baking Set. This pretend play baking kit invites kids to be master bakers, making sweet treats for everyone. It encourages creative pretend play and helps children develop essential language, social, and cognitive skills as they spark their imaginations through role playing.
With over 30 pieces and just about everything a pro-baker needs, our testers loved getting into character and using all the props to create sequences for baking. First, putting on the apron and then getting straight to work by cracking eggs, adding flour and sugar into the stand mixer, and then rolling the dough before popping it in the oven.
Through these sequences, children are describing and narrating each step, building language skills. These simple and advanced play schemas (or sequences) create the foundation for storytelling skills later on, which build literacy and academic success.
As children engage in role-playing, they naturally use dialogue and conversational skills, which are essential for language development and social communication. Bakers talk to their “customers,” practicing polite exchanges like “What would you like to order?” and “Here’s your cupcake!” This type of role-playing builds conversational skills and promotes expressive language as children create their own bakeshop scenarios.
The baking set is ideal for cooperative play, which supports social-emotional learning. Children can collaborate to create recipes or take turns mixing and serving their treats. Working together fosters skills like sharing, patience, and empathy, as children learn to respect each other’s ideas and contributions.
The Oh So Fun! Cookies & Cakes Toy Baking Set is a fantastic choice to promote language and social-emotional learning through pretend play. With opportunities to build vocabulary, practice sequencing, and engage in meaningful role-play, this baking set helps children develop essential language and social skills in a playful, hands-on way.
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