What age for Dd's first play kitchen?

[Purplerain80]

My Dd will be 19 months this Xmas and would love to get her one of those play kitchen's ideally a wooden 1 if I can find a reasonable priced 1. Do you think she still to young yet to get much play out of it?she really lives playing with the wooden one in mother care!

I think it's a great idea, encourages role play etc. Check out the ikea wooden one, it's been reduced!

My DD was almost exactly that age when she got her Ikea kitchen for Christmas - she loved it then and still plays with it now at 3.5.

We're buying one for DD who will be 14 months at Christmas. We're probably going to buy the red wooden Brio one or the IKEA one.

Age 2 onwards so I'd go for it! Though I'd consider a plastic one. We had the £160 elc wooden red one years ago and the kids we so less into it than their friends who had the pink plastic £60 one. The wooden ones are nicer but most kids I know love plastic! You dont need it to last forever - My dds outgrew by age 4. I expect most kids outgrow them before they fall apart etc.

Thanks ladies for replies ill check out ikea then! Can't wait to see her little face when she unwraps it! How old r urs now do they still play with it if u still have?

We got DD ikea one when she was 18 months. She turned 3 last weekend & def most played either toy plus storage space for all her toy food. I'm sure we paid £90 for it but saw at £65 in ikea last week

We brought dd an elc plastic kitchen for Xmas when she was 13 months old, she is now 2.5 and at the moment the dinosaurs are sat having a picnic whilst she is cooking their dinner. It is the most played with toy ever, and you can never have too many accessories, even the dish washer is roasting some biscuits and veg! :)

DS1 would 'pretend cook' with all his other toys from a v early age so we got him a big plastic kitchen for Christmas when he was 18 months old. I did gulp at the price (then about £80 in a sale) but he then played with it every day until it fell apart last winter so it was money well spent. We got him a big wooden one to replace it last Christmas and he still plays with it at 4.5. DS2 (19 months) also loves it but isn't as obsessed as his brother.

I think play kitchens are brilliant, they get used for so much. DS1 was always baking pieces of jigsaw ('biscuits Mummy') and cooking elaborate 'meals' for his toys or us. We also find older children (certainly up to 7/8) will happily play with them too when they come over.

Sounds great this will def b her main pressie, r they easy to esemble as Dh isn't at all good with a screwdriver:/

Ds had his first kitchen at around the same age, he LOVED it!

I would go for a plastic one, the one we had had a hot plate that made a sizzle sound when you put a pan on it,ds used to make sausages for me

My dd is about to turn three and I'm upgrading her shitty plastic Minnie Mouse one to a wooden ELC one as her main Christmas present

I think that sounds fab, we got DS1 his when he was 3 and he still plays with it now, at nearly 6 - DS2 is only just 1 and is already very keen on it too.
It's plastic, in primary colours, but the thing I like best about it is the twin hob with weight sensors - turn them on and they both light up, hiss and fizz, but when you put something on them, one starts to crackle like it's frying, and the other makes boiling noises. I love this! (So does DS2 - thinks it's hilarious!)

Purplerain the big plastic one we bought was easy to put together, I am rubbish at anything like that but managed it on Christmas Eve (with wine). It was also easy to take apart so I would put bits of it in the dishwasher when needed (DS1 was inclined to use bits of his real lunch to 'make' stuff in his kitchen...) DH was meant to put together the big replacement wooden one last Christmas Eve but didn't - in the end I got a local handyman to do it in mid January as otherwise it would still be in its box now (I don't think it was that difficult but DH loathes DIY).

My son got his for his second birthday and it was a huge hit - best toy investment we've made to date

DS3 had the Ikea one for his first birthday, he wasn't too bothered at first and DS2 who was 2.4 at the time got the benefit. DS3 is 18 months now though and loves it just as much as his brother.
I just wish the Ikea one had knobs for the cooker!

I think she's a perfect age :)

My advice would be to be to find one where the doors are easy to open & close, because if they aren't it doesn't matter what they look like, they wont be enjoyed anywhere near as much. The lighter plastic ones can be a bugger for this.

I'm getting one for my nineteen month old this Christmas :)

Our Ikea one (which is fab, that and all the fabric food, plus their utensils/pans etc, really recommend!) was a joint present for DCs last year, ages at the time 3y 6m and 16m. DS (youngest) had come home from nursery every session with his daily report telling us he'd been playing with the toy kitchen. He is actually too short still (now 2y 2m) to reach anything that's not at the very front of the upper shelves, but it's a perfect height for DD (now 4y 4m), so it has room to grow. Really roomy inside too.