Archive for 'Pretend Play & Dress-Up'

Excellent Kitchen!
I bought this for my daughter last year for Christmas (2009) She still plays with it daily! It is located in our kitchen and she loves to cook daily. What a great toy! Very open ended. I highly recomend this kitchen.

Good for girls
I bought this product for my neice she loves to play with it all the time.But i recommend buying other kitchen items with this.

Great kitchen!
After lots of research I ordered this KidKraft kitchen for my granddaughter's play house. It did take awhile to put together and you definitely need 2 people, but it's adorable when finished! Granddaughter is 2 years old and loves it. It's tall enough that she'll be able to use it for several years and the colors are very pretty. She did pull the clock hands off right away, so you might need to show your child how they work if they are very young. The wood seems very sturdy. It doesn't come with pots or food, but we use empty boxes of pasta, small cereals, etc. and they suit her just fine. KidKraft makes a set of pots that match perfectly. We all love it!

Excellent product with bright colors
This product is just what we wanted. We didn't want to pay the price for Melissa and Doug products, but we wanted the same or very similar quality. This product met this requirement at half the price. It did take a while to assemble (about 2-3 hours), but the quality is high and the colors very vibrant and joyful. My daughters love it! I would recommend this product to anyone, especially if your needs are a high quality product without the huge expense of more trendy brands.

Best Kitchen ever
I purchased this for my granddaughter and was very pleased. It was a little difficult to put together but the outcome was worth everything. The kitchen is very well made and alot of thought went into the details. The kids play with this all the time, We bought the kitchen for Christmas and it is now March and the kids are still enjoying playing with the kitchen. They have not tired of playing kitchen and I think this says alot for this kitchen set. The pans fit in the stove and it has great storage area for all the foods, pots and pans. We love everything about this little kitchen set and feel that it is far superior to the other brands of kitchen.

A super cute kitchen that falls apart constantly
We ordered this kitchen or our almost two year old for Christmas but it gets used by a 6, 3 and 2 year old. We chose this model because of how cute it was and that the company replaces broken items free of charge. In these last seven months we have had to order and replace one of the pink handles twice, the oven rack wall and a door. They have broken the sink so it no longer snaps in place, but they love to carry it around. One of the oven knobs has never clicked when turned, but the kids don't care.

It seems like our choice to go with a company that replaces the parts free of charge has been a good one, but I must say that the particle wood that these are mostly made out of are prone to wearing quickly where screws and do dads are connected. Once the screw comes loose you have to get the whole section of wood replaced because the hole is stripped. It took quite a while to put together and so we have left the door off and haven't yet fixed the broken panel inside the oven until we have the time to take it completely apart and rebuild. It is getting annoying, but the kids still love it.

Very cute
It looked just like I expected after reading reviews and looking at the 360 pics on-line. Took my husband only a little over 1 hour to build, but he uses tools everyday for work so we didn't expect it to take as long as some had reported in reviews. My 3 year old daughter likes it a lot and makes food for us quite often. It is a good size for her and seems to be made quite durable. Plan for her to use this for at least a few years. My 6-year old son likes to pretend cook and he has used it occasionally too.

Good value
I bought this for 0 with free shipping. there is nothing out there that compares to it at that price. here is my take on some of the popular comments from other reviews:

Assembly time: Directions are clear, pieces are coded to correspond with the directions. all you need is a screwdriver, allen wrench & another wrench come with it. Someone with an average ability to assemble things similar to this should plan on 2 hours +/- and just follow the instructions but I would not be intimidated by the assembly time comments. I would think that any of these toy wood kitchens require a good bit of assembly and the instructions are well done. If you consider yourself assembly required impaired, you may want to get some help.

the sink is plastic but mine has clips that require you to reach underneath it from both sides to get it out. i.e. if your sink comes out easily, the clips must be broken.

cream vs. white. I would say somewhere inbetween. personally, the shade of white was not something I gave too much thought too.

Real wood. I don't think it's particle board, it seems like some sort of high grade plywood. Did you expect solid oak? it seems to be of good quality in my opinion considering the price.

If you are looking for gender neutral you can paint the pink trim handles with black spray paint as I did.

Perfect little kitchen
I purchased this kitchen for my granddaughters, ages 3 and 1 for Christmas. I did not put it together but my daughter-in-law did. She said it was pretty time consuming but when she was done she said it was well worth it. She thought the quality was excellent. The girls play with it every day. The size it just right for them.

Absolutely adorable!
I bought the pastel version of this kitchen (item 53167) and it's absolutely adorable. My DD is 3 and this is pretty perfect for her right now. I can see it lasting maybe another couple of years or so. It doesn't come with a refrigerator, microwave or much storage that many kitchens have these days, but it's so cute that I don't care :). My daughter loves it and has been playing with it constantly. It took my Dh close to 2 hours to put together but he said it was easy. A couple of screws broke off in the plastic oven handle so we had to order another one of those, but other than that everything was packaged wonderfully and there wasn't any damage. We bought it for ninety-five dollars shipped, so the price was also right!

WOULD NOT RECOMMEND
My 8 year old daughter is crazy about Polly Pockets. When the Courtyard and Mall shops went on sale I jumped on the purchase. Thanks goodness it was on sale because if I had purchased this at full price I would have returned it. When the box arrived in the mail I thought that they must have shipped the wrong toy or only a part of it because the box was so small. How could six shops and the Courtyard fit in this tiny box? I unpacked the box and got my answer. The shops are very small and flimsy and the courtyard is much smaller than it looks in the pictures. There are hundreds of tiny pieces that we just ended up throwing away. The mall will not stay together so you can't move it. The best part of this toy is that it came with 6 dolls.

Looks better in pictures
Once opened, the backdrop for each individual shop is a bare plastic wall. There are no stickers to place in each shop. The pictured item looked colorful and fun, but the picture was displaying the Polly items included and odd cardboard cutouts of cell phones, purses, etc. I am not sure what my kid is supposed to do with tiny cardboard pieces. They just get vacuumed up when they fall on the floor because they are so tiny they blend into the carpet! I would have preferred stickers to place on the wall and forget the tiny cardboard pieces.

The stack-able stores do not stay together well. They tip easily and then come apart from each other.

The high price of this toy is not worth it. The Polly resort is a much better value.

Fun BUT too many pieces
My five your old and her friends can play all day with this mall. The bad part is there are so many little pieces. I find them all over. The mall stores are very small and it is hard to actually have the dolls go in them. If the stores were bigger I would recommend to a friend, but not worth the money.

Get ready to lose some pieces.
I purchase this item for my two little girls because they are big Polly Pocket fans. The set up is pretty nice and they do like it. The one real problem I have with this set is that there are almost too many pieces to fit in the very tiny stores. Be prepared to lose a lot of the little shoes and accessories. I think it would have been a better idea to make the stores in the mall bigger and just include less of them. The stores are so small it is hard to really do anything with it. The lighting system is cute and worked fine. I would most likely not recommend this to anyone but the biggest Polly Pocket fans.

Not as nice as I thought
My daughter wanted this for Christmas. First of all, this comes in "new" packaging, so its just in plastic bags, not in the regular packaging like you'd find in the store. 2nd the stores don't have enough room for all of the things and they don't stand up so that she can use them (she's 7 and can easily make things stand on their own). In my opinion, she likes the cruise ship MUCH better.