Toy fruits and vegetables are usually bought in kits. These include bananas, grapes, apples, potatoes, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, peppers, cucumbers, onions, tomatoes and even eggplant. Some of these toy fruits and veggies even come in sections that can be stuck back together with Velcro. Children can use toy chopping knives to pretend cutting these in half. These objects are essential to a successful dramatic play kitchen because playing with healthy food objects helps reinforce healthy real-life habits.
Toy meats are available in a wide variety, to include steaks, hot dogs, sliced lunch meat, chicken legs, ribs, pork chops, sausage, fish and even eggs. Toy sliced bread, rolls and buns are available along with wedges and slices of toy cheese. Like toy fruits and veggies, toy meats, breads and cheeses are usually available in kits that come with a toy knife for pretend slicing. These kind of kits can be especially fun for children because they allow them to pretend to build sandwiches by stacking and layering the different sliced meats and cheeses.
Toy desserts are so much fun to add to your dramatic play area because there is such a wide selection of them; you can find birthday cake with pretend candles, cookies, ice cream, cup cakes and pastries. These come in sets, too. The cakes come in wedged sections that can be stuck back together to give the appearance of a whole cake; some versions can be stuck back together with Velcro. The candles can be removed for pretend non-birthday cake play.
The toy fast food replicas available are diverse. The more popular kits offer hamburgers, French fries, pizza, chicken strips, onion rings, spaghetti and even sushi. Some fast food chains have toy food kits on the toy market that are replicas of the actual food sold in their restaurants. These fast food kits also help children pretend to layer food, put food together, and understand what types of foods are paired together in real fast food restaurants.