PRETEND and PLAY HEALTHY LUNCH PLAY FOOD SET

Ages: 3 +
Includes: 18 pieces (see content below)

Pretend and Play Healthy Lunch Play Food Set 
 
What's for lunch? Encourage healthy choices with this realistic-looking set of nutritious lunch food that includes 2 slices of wheat bread, 2 slices of turkey, lettuce, tomato, cheese, 4 celery sticks, 2 pretzels, grapes, orange and milk. Great for developing oral language through role play in early childhood and ELL classrooms.

Educational Benefits:
Special Needs Applications - Key Features and Benefits
 
Cognitive: 

• Realistic looking play food helps children begin to understand the
  concept of pretend play.  They are more likely to pretend play with
  objects they are already familiar with; such as food they know, as
  opposed to novel, abstract “things”.?

• Many pieces in each set so children can incorporate counting
  and repetition into play. 

Communicative: 

• Realistic-looking play food helps children begin to understand
  the concept of pretend play. 

• Enough food in each set that children can begin parallel play
  – playing with the same item next to each other, but not interacting
  and then cooperative play as skills develop.

• Encourages full sentences by asking for items using descriptive words

• Realistic food enables children to learn to recognize real items in a store, restaurant or at home.   

Physical: 

• Encourage a child who may have a weaker side to use both hands
  and arms in play.  

• Food in the basket encourages children to bring their arm up and
  reach into the basket to retrieve a food item promoting range of motion in the arms.  

Sensory:

• Distinct texture adds to realism and aids children with visual impairments.

Prepared By: National Lekotek Center

Contents:
 
2 Wheat Bread Slices
2 Turkey Slices
Slice Of Cheese
Slice Of Tomato
Slice Of Lettuce
4 Celery Sticks
Grapes
Orange
Carton Of Milk
2 Pretzels
Basket
Activity Guide