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The play kitchen provides a great opportunity for parents to play some imaginative games at home before their children go to school, thereby promoting social and cognitive development.ย ย
Toddlers especially like to play in the kitchen. This is a great way to sit down and watch your child play, explore and develop on their own. There are many other benefits of the game kitchen, such as safety experiments, understanding of healthy food, etc.
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Toddlers especially like to play in the kitchen. This is a great way to sit down and watch your child play, explore and develop on their own. There are many other benefits of play kitchen, such as safety experiments, understanding of healthy food, etc. Next, Tiny Land will tell you the benefits of play kitchen for children.
1. Improve cognitive flexibility
Improving cognitive flexibility is a scientific argument. Studies have shown that early pretend play can promote children's imagination and creativity. This is important because we need creative thinking in many aspects of life.
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Think about all the things we do as adults, such as solving problems, understanding new concepts, making plans, and imagining and appreciating books, art, and movies. All these require our brains to be flexible, creative and imaginative.
2. Social and emotional development
If we talk to people whose opinions differ from ours, this cognitive flexibility allows us to understand better, more likely to see their side, and increase the chance of our own thinking change.
The game kitchen allows children to make recipes, play different roles (chef, waiter, assistant chef, patron, waiter), use tableware and utensils, and interpret the scenes they experience with their own unique creative twists.
3. Language and Communication
The game kitchen is essentially a social activity. Children like to play with each other and the adults around them. With the play kitchen, children can easily work together to create a game scene, which will promote teamwork and encourage the development of social skills.
This will also enable them to experiment and learn languages while communicating their wishes and needs and negotiating with their playmates. They can try to learn new vocabulary and understand how their words affect real life.
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4. Fine motor skills
In their play kitchen, your children will have the opportunity to practice cutting vegetables, stir-frying, frying, and making the delicious dishes they imagined. This is a uniquely creative game scene that allows them to practice fine and gross motor skills.
This of course depends on the accessories included in your playhouse, but in any case, children like to practice the movements they see mom and dad do in the kitchen, which naturally involves fine motor skills.
5. Life skills
The play kitchen provides children with the opportunity to practice many life skills essential to becoming adults, which may not be found in other types of imagination games. These include planning and organization, calculation, cleaning, making healthy food choices, etc.
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Consider a child who is practicing preparing a meal. They can plan their meals, calculate their ingredients, set the table, serve them food, pretend to clean up, and finally, pack everything away at the end of their game.
