Looking For The Best Wooden Play Kitchen?
Play kitchens can be great additions to a home playroom or to your child’s toy collection.It can give your kids tons of fun every day while teaching them basic social skills that they’ll use as they play kitchen with the set along with their friends and brothers and sisters. In addition to that, learning to love cooking is a really great skill to have that can serve you well throughout your life.Here at Kitchen Appliance Lab, we want to help you select the best play kitchen for your family. Hopefully, you’ll find this article full of tips that will help you make this decision.
The Best Wooden Play Kitchens Are Made Of High-Quality Wood
This may seem like an obvious thing, but it isn’t so obvious.
You should find a play kitchen that is made from high-quality wood, not composite, and not plastic.
Play kitchens made with high quality wood often tend to be more expensive and even harder to find. But the reality is that they’ll last much longer and be much more durable than the other kids.
After all, just like real life kitchens get beat up, play kitchens get beat up, also!
Once you find a play kitchen that’s made with quality wood, you should also make sure that the paint used is non-toxic and lead-free. It should also be of high quality or it’ll start to flake and peel. And even it’s non-toxic, you don’t want peeling paint coming off of your kids wooden play kitchen!
Get A Larger Wooden Play Kitchen Than You Think You Need!
Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to buy a wooden play kitchen, the next decision you make is regarding size.
Remember, kids grow fast!
In the same way that you’ll always buy clothes are a little too big, you should also buy your play kitchen a little bit too big.
Kids can hit a growth spurt and gro inches in a couple months.
It’s much better to have it be too big for a few months than too short forever.
The majority of play kitchens are around 36 inches tall, so make sure that you’re buying one that’s a little bigger than that.
Try To Find A Realistic Play Kitchen
Yes,, we know that it’s a toy play kitchen, but kids are attracted to reality.
That’s the reason there are play kitchens to begin with. And play cars, and soccer goals for toddlers, and all other kinds of toys that mimic real life places and things.
A realistic looking play kitchen will be fun for them to play in, especially as they watch mom or dad work in the real kitchen.
A play kitchen that has burner knobs that really turn or an oven door that really opens, that’s awesome, right?
Some play kitchens have a built-in microwave with its own knobs that has an opening door. Or a sink that can be rotated.
You might even find one with accessories that looks like it might be used in real life! A plastic spatula or a steel whisk!
And yes, some play kitchens have battery-operated parts of it. That way when you turn something on, you can really hear it go.
Or imagine putting your cup under the ice dispenser in your refrigerator and really hearing it dispense ice. Your kids will love that!
Easy To Assemble
This is a big deal but it can be found by looking at reviews. Ultimately, if you spend a lot of money on a wooden play kitchen then you’ll assemble it no matter how difficult it is!
Still, you should want to buy one that is easy to assemble.
Often, it can take a few hours to put together a wooden play kitchen, maybe longer if the instructions aren’t very clear.
Best Wooden Play Kitchen
Since you’re now aware of what you should be looking for in a wooden play kitchen, let’s look at some of our favorites!
Comparison Chart
KidKraft Ultimate Corner Wooden Play Kitchen with Lights & Sounds, Play Phone and Curtains, Espresso, Gift for Ages 3+
Hape Gourmet Kitchen Toy Fully Equipped Wooden Pretend Play Kitchen Set with Sink, Stove, Baking Oven, Cabinet, Turnable Knobs & Spice Shelf, Red
KidKraft Vintage Kitchen
This KidKraft Vintage kitchen comes in various different colors and is a really cool looking toddler kitchen. It’s doors open and close, it has knobs that click when they turn, it has a cordless phone, and a removable sink for easy cleanup.
KidKraft Ultimate Corner Play Kitchen
This KidKraft Corner Play Kitchen is one of my favorites. It’s a corner kitchen design so it’ll fit perfect in the corner of a room. It’s also designed to look like a high end fancy kitchen. It comes in two colors and is complete with lights and sounds for the burners, oven, microwave, refrigerator, freezer, and washer, all with doors that open and close. It also has a removable sink and cordless phone!
Hape Gourmet Kitchen Wooden Play Kitchen
This Hape Gourmet Kitchen is a much more compact and basic design than the KidKraft ones. It’s also much cheaper!
Still, this is a great wooden play kitchen that has all of the essentials to give your toddlers hours of fun.
Hape Children’s Wooden Play Kitchen
This Hape Children’s Wooden Play Kitchen is another great toy kitchen from Hape. It has a cool design, it’s compact but still has a sink, burners, oven, cabinet, and built in microwave!
It also has a pan and spatula included.
KidKraft Uptown Espresso Kitchen
This KidKraft Uptown Espresso Kitchen is probably, no definitely fancier than my kitchen!
This one is on the bigger size and features a refrigerator, freezer, oven, cabinet, and microwave doors that open and close.
It has oven and sink knobs that turn and click, a cordless phone, and shelves for pots and pans. It also has a mini chalkboard on the freezer so your kids can get creative!
Wrapping up with the Best Wooden Play Kitchen
We hope that you’ve enjoyed this article on the best wooden play kitchen.
All of the wooden play kitchens mentioned here are high quality kids toys that will last you for years to come. And not only are they durable, but they look good, too!
Let us know in the comments if you chose one of these kids wooden play kitchens!