Any recommendations for wooden toy kitchens?

Suzanne_Louise

We actually saw quite a nice one in Asda at the weekend, which was for 18months +, whereas most of them are 3+. It looked quite nice and was about £20 so she may well be getting one as part of her Christmas present! Pleased we're not the only one's who are sufferering!!!!!

SkintGypsy

If you are a Costco member, they have one in there currently. Pastel colours, complete with phone, clock and utensils.

onlyroz

Bloomin_Freezing2 wrote: »

If you're looking at any of the KidKraft kitchens I have to say I think they will be beautiful. I have recently had delivered one of their wooden dollshouses and its lovely. Very well made, think it'll last years! When opened I found one item slightly damaged so I emailed them and within 5 mins had a reply, and by 7 days had received the replacement. Great customer service too!

Do you reckon the KidKraft ones would be better built than the Little Tykes one? I've read reviews of the KidKraft retro kitchen (which looks lovely) - quite a few people say that the doors keep falling off and need screwing back on again. But the price of all these seem to be about the same...

*Louise*

onlyroz wrote: »

I want to get my daughter a wooden kitchen for her second birthday. The ones I'm considering are:

http://www.elc.co.uk/Red-Retro-Kitchen/118447,default,pd.html

which is nearly the same as:

http://wooden-toys-direct.co.uk/epages/eshop259102.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/eshop259102/Products/53156

Or:

http://wooden-toys-direct.co.uk/epages/eshop259102.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/eshop259102/Products/53100

Or:

http://www.hamleys.com/Kitchen_%7C_Hamleys_Toys/780726,default,pd.html

Anyone got any of these? Or do you know of any other ones that are better?

Love the red retro one!

Not keen on the Hamleys one at all

Makes a nice change from girly pink. DD is after a kitchen as well she has asked for the mini one which is £14 in Asda so we thought we would surprise her with a big one. But we are probably going to go with the £70 sturdy plastic one from ELC - we just don't have the space for a lovely big wooden one

onlyroz

Suzanne_Louise wrote: »

We were wondering whether to get our 15 month old daughter a toy kitchen. The only problem is that we're totally open plan downstairs, and she's forever getting told 'no' for playing with our range cooker. Would we be actively encouraging her to play with the big one if we get her a toy version?????

I think having a play kitchen downstairs would make it *less* likely that your daughter attempts to play with the real kitchen. I'm forever dragging my girl out of the kitchen cupboards, but I think if she's got her own toy cupboards and knobs/dials to play with then perhaps she won't pester me so much when I'm cooking. I also think that my boy (age 5) will probably play with it even more than bubs...

Anyway, unless anyone can persuade me otherwise, I'm going for the Little Tykes kitchen.

I've also found her a duplo dolls house which will do for Christmas:

http://shop.lego.com/ByAge/Product.aspx?p=5639&cn=100002&df100001

onlyroz

*Louise* wrote: »

Makes a nice change from girly pink.

I'm allergic to girly pink . My daughter will be a tom-boy whether she wants to or not:rotfl:

Bloomin_Freezing2

onlyroz wrote: »

Do you reckon the KidKraft ones would be better built than the Little Tykes one? I've read reviews of the KidKraft retro kitchen (which looks lovely) - quite a few people say that the doors keep falling off and need screwing back on again. But the price of all these seem to be about the same...

I don't know, sorry. But as I said before their customer service was excellent. I purchased my dolls house (dd's lol) from an independant shop which I have never heard of so was a bit worried, but delivery came fine. (Plus I saved over 40 punds for shopping around.) Inside the box was info saying if anything is lost,damaged etc please contact kidkraft directly rather than who sold you it.

Is the little tykes one a plastic model? I suppose with that at least one day ot can be moved to a garden/shed for outdoor play?

onlyroz

Bloomin_Freezing2 wrote: »

Is the little tykes one a plastic model? I suppose with that at least one day ot can be moved to a garden/shed for outdoor play?

I'm only really interested in wooden kitchens because I think they're better quality, more hard-wearing and look nicer than the plastic ones...

Bloomin_Freezing2

onlyroz wrote: »

I'm only really interested in wooden kitchens because I think they're better quality, more hard-wearing and look nicer than the plastic ones...

Thats what I thought but was thrown by 'little tykes' as I've only really seen their plastic garden toys.

Glad you were able to find one you like.:)

Bloomin_Freezing2

http://direct.asda.com/Teapot-Cafe-Playset/000784218,default,pd.html

How about this to make do for the Big Yellow Teapot that never was yours...?