Learning Resources Pretend & Play Bakery Set Review & Giveaway

I have been doing a lot of shopping for the holidays and birthdays these past few weeks and I have purchased a lot of educational toys. One of my favorite places to buy educational toys from is Learning Resources.

Learning Resources has a variety of great educational products for all ages. I have reviewed several products from them in the past and they always become Tobin's favorite toys to play with. I was thrilled when we were sent the Pretend & Play Bakery Set to review.

The Pretend & Play toys are one of Tobin's favorites because he loves to use his imagination. He especially loves to play pretend cooking. So this was perfect for him! 

The set has everything your little baker needs to "cook up" some fun! Here is what is included:

• Mixing bowl & spoon
• Measuring cup
• Rolling pin
• 2 Measuring spoons on ring (tablespoon and teaspoon)
• Mixing spoon
• Play knife
• Cookie tray
• 4 Cookies (star, crescent, clover, heart)
• 1 Cookie cutter with suction cup and handle
• Cookie dough
• Pie with three 2-piece slices (apple, peach, strawberry)
• Loaf of bread with 3 slices connected by hook-and-loop fasteners
• Crackable egg & egg yolk
• 2-Piece strawberry connected by hook-and-loop fasteners
• Peach slice
• Apple slice

Tobin was really excited to play with the Bakery Set. He thought the fact that you could really crack a pretend egg and have a yolk come out was so cool. It offers realistic, hands-on play since you can crack open the egg, so it's great practice! The egg shells are kind of hard to put back together especially with putting the yolk back in side, but Tobin doesn't care and loves it anyways.

It comes with a measuring cup and spoon so your child can pretend to add ingredients into the bowl provided and mix up their treats.

The set also introduces parts of a whole with a sliceable 3-piece loaf of bread and a pie that has three 2-piece slices. Your child can fill the pie with fruit and you match the fruit with the colors. So this is a great way to practice colors with your child as well.

The bread is held together with velcro and you can cut it with the pretend knife that comes with the set. The bread is made of plastic and is kind of squishy so it's a little difficult to cut, but Tobin doesn't seem to mind that at all.

Tobin's favorite part of the set is the cookies. It comes with a rolling pin and a slice of pretend dough that has shapes already cut in it. Then you take the cookie cutter that has a suction cup on it and pick up the cookies with it and place it on the tray.

We love the Learning Resources Pretend & Play Bakery Set and I think it's a great way to let your child explore their imagination. Be sure to check out all the other products from Learning Resources as well. They have a lot to choose from! Just to give you an idea of some of the products they have to offer, here are two things I recently purchased for Tobin for Christmas:

Pretend & Play Rise & Shine Breakfast

Smart Snacks Counting Cookies

So if you are looking for great educational products at affordable prices, then look no further than Learning Resources.

GIVEAWAY: Thanks to Learning Resources, one LUCKY winner will win a Pretend & Play Bakery Set (ARV $29.99) just like the one we reviewed.

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