Does your child enjoy playing in the kitchen? Are you trying to teach your child fractions? Your child will love learning fractions and playing kitchen with this wooden play food set.
Each play food item is beautifully painted with non-toxic paint and held together by Velcro tabs, allowing your child to easily slice them with a satisfying crunch. This toy is very popular among children, allowing them to use their creativity and imagination as they pretend to make various meals, from sandwiches to salads. It's also popular with parents because it helps their children to learn linguistic skills, motor skills, and pattern recognition as they reassemble each item.
Melissa and Doug Cutting Food Box Wooden Play Food Set Includes
This sturdy and durable wooden play food set contains thirty-one pieces, including a cutting board, a play knife, and eight food items such as a loaf of bread, a hotdog, three slices of bread, an apple, a cucumber, a watermelon, a pepper, and a tomato.
This set comes in a sturdy wooden storage box which measures 11" x 12" x 2.75" and comes complete with a plastic lid for easy storage.
Recommended for children ages 3 and up.
If you enjoy the cutting food box, then you may enjoy these other educational wooden play food items:
Breakfast Play Food
Birthday Cake
Pizza Party
I highly recommend the Melissa and Doug Cutting Food Box. As a parent and former teacher myself, I am always looking for fun ways to teach my children new concepts through play. Children not only enjoy playing with the cutting food box, it's also a fun and easy way for them to learn, hands-on, about fractions as they cut the vegetables into pieces.
Here are a few things to discuss with your children while playing with the Melissa and Doug cutting food box:
Is that a whole, quarter or a half?
Do you want to cut the bread into halves or into quarters?
Do you want to eat a third of the tomato?
Educational Benefits of Playing with the Melissa and Doug Cutting Food Box:
Children learn to recognize colors by playing with Cutting Food Box.
The Cutting Food Box helps children learn fractions by cutting food into pieces.
Children use small motor skills and eye-hand coordination to cut the food.
Using the Cutting Food Box, children can practice counting the pieces of food.
Here are a few more activities to help you teach your children fractions:
Teaching Fractions: At Lunch
At lunch time serve the children sandwiches. First, tell the children they are going to have the whole sandwich. Then, cut the children's sandwiches into halves or quarters. The children will enjoy talking about fractions during lunch.
You can continue this lunch time activity to discuss how much of their milk they drank? How much is left? Did they drink a half a glass? Or two-thirds of a glass? Or three-quarters? Did they eat half of their fruit? Have fun with fractions.
Teaching Fractions: Pizza Art
Do your children enjoy doing art projects? Make a pretend pizza on a paper plate. Then talk to the children about how the pizza is a whole pizza. Ask the children to cut their pizza's into halves and then quarters. They can then share their pizzas with their friends.
Teaching Fractions: Shape Puzzles
Do your children enjoy doing puzzles? Using a piece of construction paper cut out several different shapes (star, circle, triangle, diamond, rectangle and moon.) Then cut each of the shapes in half.
Mix up the shapes on the floor. Next, have your children find the two pieces of each shape that go together. They will have a lot of fun learning, hands-on, about shapes and fractions.
Teaching Fractions: Bag of Halves
First get a paper grocery bag. Next grab several things from around the house to cut in half. For example, I found an egg carton, a piece of paper, an empty cereal box, a paper plate, a paper cup, and a piece of string.
Next have your children take turns taking a piece out of the bag. They will have so much fun matching the halves together.
We hope you enjoy these activities to help teach your children fractions, both with the Cutting Food Box and with whatever items your imagination comes up with. Please e-mail us if you have an activity you would like to share with us. We are looking to hearing feedback about our products.
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Thanks -
Nancy Murphy
