Playing with dolls is much more interesting if they have furniture and household items the same as their mother's. Playing for children is not just entertainment. This is preparation for adult life, acquiring new skills, albeit in a playful form. If a girl has a kitchen, dishes and food for dolls and she plays with them with pleasure, then, as she grows up, she will be just as happy to tinker in the kitchen, preparing a delicious dinner for her family.
Making your own - is it worth it?
A kitchen for dolls with furniture, dishes, food and many other items will cause a storm of delight in the little housewife. You can buy a doll set in a store, but it is much more useful and interesting to make it with your own hands , and always with your child. Here are some reasons in favor of this:
- joint creativity brings children and parents closer, brings joy, helps to get to know each other better;
- working on creating toys develops fine motor skills, imagination, and creative thinking;
- the number of items in a self-made doll kitchen can be much greater than in a store-bought one: it all depends on your desire and ingenuity;
- the child will learn to create things with his own hands and enjoy it;
- the craft will cost you much less than one bought in a store, and will bring no less joy to your daughter.
It has been noticed that children play with toys made by their parents or with their own hands with great pleasure.
Super Barbie kitchen (with a doll!): a detailed review of the dream set!
This is one of the coolest, most epic
Barbie play sets 2022 - just a Dream Kitchen!
It combines what we love most as children: a doll, a realistic play kitchen and the ability to “cook” doll food with your own hands. In addition, this is a kitchen set with lights and sounds
. And a doll included!
The kitchen is amazing: it is a huge gift box, and inside there is a whole set with lights and sounds, lots of details, dishes (about 20 accessories). Everything here is like in a real kitchen, only in miniature.
Lights and sounds!
The lighting and sounds of the stove are especially striking ( for this you will need to install batteries - 3 AAA, they are not included in the kit, so buy them immediately
). There are two burners, each activated separately by its own button. The backlight is simply amazing: like a real stove! It turns on the first time you press a button.
If we press the button a second time, we hear very realistic
cooking sounds: frying on one burner, boiling on the second. So a frying pan is better suited for one burner (we fry something tasty), and a saucepan is better for the second burner (cook soup).
Video
Watch the video - you will see and hear everything yourself!
Dough for making doll food
The set contains jars with completely safe “dough” for modeling in 5 colors: it is from these that we will “cook”. The dough here is excellent, in fact it surpasses many other leading brands in quality. Easily shaped, pliable, does not stick to your hands.
After “cooking” we simply put everything back into the jars, then the dough does not dry out, you can play every day.
And you can store the jars in the kitchen itself, they just fit on the shelves in height:
Kitchen accessories
In order for the doll dishes to be beautiful, the set contains many auxiliary parts, so that even small children can do everything well. And, of course, doll dishes so that ready-made dishes can be served beautifully!
Moreover, cooking also has playful aspects.
.
For example, fill a pie pan with dough and press: you will see the dough rise
!
Place the pie in the oven and lift the lever to hear the timer
. And the pie turns out amazingly beautiful, and it’s so easy!
Remove from the oven...
And you can cut it!
spend hours creating with this set.
. Everything turns out very realistic, and it’s all reusable: then just put the dishes in jars with dough, close it, and play again the next day. If there is not enough dough or you need other colors, there is no problem: just buy Play Dough or something similar, and the game will never end.
We haven't needed other colors yet: everything we need is here. And there is more than enough test.
Doll included
The Barbie doll here is a pretty standard blonde, wearing a versatile outfit: a simple blue dress (stretchy, no Velcro), a polka dot apron (a separate detail, which is nice), and white shoes. If you change her clothes (or just take off her apron), she can play any other roles.
It’s great that Barbie here is not just a beautiful doll, but a mistress
, which does and creates something. This is a great gaming example. The whole family can play with this set, telling children how to prepare certain dishes. And then try to do something in a real kitchen.
Place everything side by side or in different rooms of the doll house
This kitchen can be divided into three parts or placed together, as you prefer.
The kitchen is divided into different zones (sandwich making, fryer, stove and oven), there is also a table with a cutting board and a rack for all kitchen utensils. Under the countertop there is a small refrigerator/cabinet with two shelves.
Division can be useful if you need to place the kitchen in a doll house (in a Barbie Dream House, on a shelf, in a homemade house, or some other house). Barbie Dreamhouse is divided into three parts, so that three parts of the kitchen, for example, can be placed in different areas of the house. The set allows you to experiment with permutations. Playing permutations and deciding what will be better is also interesting.
It is durable, easy to assemble, and all parts are of high quality. Designed for endless imaginative play.
This is a great toy that will keep children's attention for hours. If you need a gift for a girl that will outshine all others , choose this set. Because here you don’t have to rack your brains about how and what to play: the game starts by itself
(and it’s hard to tear yourself away from it).
The parts can be connected!
The three parts of the kitchen can be assembled into a single whole, for this there are fastenings on the side:
Connect the parts, and after that the kitchen will become one whole
, it can be lifted and carried all at once!
Let's cook!
Fill the press with yellow batter and close the lid to make French fries. And then we simply remove the finished slices with tweezers.
You can also make an excellent sandwich from several different layers (to do this, we work with the pink device that is located next to the deep fryer): assemble the components that you want into a sandwich to order.
You can fry delicious pancakes or bake a pie!
What about healthy eating?
Even though Barbie has the ability to cook French fries, she also has vegetables
.
So if suddenly your Barbie is a vegetarian, she can easily prepare herself a tasty and healthy meal, cook vegetable soup ( and you can explain to your child the difference between a healthy diet and... not so healthy
).
If your doll today is a chef or baker, then there will be plenty of opportunities for their needs to be realized here. We can cook French fries, vegetables, bake something delicious in the oven.
Bottom line
The price of the set is quite high. It seems like a lot. In fact, when you see children playing with a set every day, for hours
, inventing and imagining, including a variety of dolls in the game, you understand that this set is a gift that will be
relevant for years
. And nothing will fall apart here, because Mattel knows how to make not only dolls, but also everything that dolls need for life (and for us to play).
Barbie cooks food for the whole family, and the child is happy to treat everyone in the household (and dolls) with her creations: it's just amazing!
This set is also the most popular at any children's party. Children get together and cook everything together
, playing with dolls.
Any little girl definitely needs this kitchen, and then, perhaps, she will not need a large play kitchen at all, which takes up a huge amount of space. This compact version has everything you need. One of the best gifts.
This review included the following set: FRH73 Barbie® Barbie super kitchen with doll (Dream Kitchen/Ultimate Kitchen).
Addition (see review): two dolls in one set, a chef and a waitress.
Additional photos (box, instructions):
Kitchen set for doll
To make furniture and kitchen appliances, you will need cardboard boxes, so stock up on them in advance. Do not throw away cardboard boxes for shoes, juices, bulk products and other packaging. For upholstered furniture you will need scraps of fabric, synthetic padding, foam rubber or cotton wool. Prepare scissors, white and colored paper, cardboard, foil, glue, tape, paints, brushes.
Fridge
It's hard to imagine a kitchen without a refrigerator. The same, but miniature, will be in our kitchen for dolls, and will definitely be filled with tiny products.
Step-by-step instructions on how to make a refrigerator out of paper:
- To make it, find a cardboard box, for example, for bulk foods, drinks, etc. Packaging for disposable tea bags is an almost ready-made miniature refrigerator with an opening door. The door in other boxes will have to be cut out yourself. You can build a two-chamber refrigerator by cutting it into two parts.
- Cover the inside and outside of the box with white tape or paper, or colored paper. To prevent the paper from rubbing, it is advisable to laminate it with transparent tape. Cover the doors and shelves of the refrigerator in the same way.
- Glue the doors and shelves of the refrigerator to the box.
- Handles can be made from cotton swabs for cleaning ears by cutting off the tips with cotton wool. Glue the resulting plastic tubes vertically to the refrigerator doors.
- Decorate your refrigerator with magnets: miniature stickers or tiny images cut out from postcards and magazines.
What is included in the “Super Kitchen” set
Barbie Ultimate Kitchen (item FRH73) - a set that includes:
- kitchen unit - oven, refrigerator, microwave, cabinets, dishes, containers with the names of products, spices, liquids;
- five jars of plasticine;
- Barbie doll with soft blonde hair, wearing a blue dress, white shoes and a stylish polka dot apron.
The furniture and items in the kitchen are made of pink plastic. The set is sold in a box measuring 33 x 32 x 13 cm.
The “Barbie Super Kitchen” set is divided into several functional zones:
- refrigerator with food;
- work area (stove and auxiliary accessories for cooking);
- cabinets and other kitchen furniture.
There are two shelves inside the refrigerator. On top of it there is a table top with molds for carrots, mushrooms and other vegetables. It’s easy to play with them: just put plasticine (5 jars - orange, yellow, white, green and beige - included) inside the mold, close it and after a few seconds open the lid. Now finished plasticine products can become ingredients in delicious salads or other vegetable dishes.
The plastic cabinet has two shelves and three decorative drawers. It also has a sandwich maker for sandwiches and a deep fryer for preparing delicious crispy potatoes. The algorithm of actions is the same as with vegetables: put plasticine inside the kitchen devices, close and open the lid - enjoy the finished culinary products.
The kitchen stove is equipped with sound and light effects - the burners are illuminated in red (simulating a flame), and the timer rings to notify you when the dish is ready.
The stove has a hob with two burners, and there is also an oven with a baking tray.
DIY dishes for dolls
The kitchen is ready, but the dolls have to prepare lunch from imaginary ingredients and in an imaginary saucepan, and eat it from the same plates. Now let's try to make dishes .
The fastest and easiest way to make kitchen utensils is from plasticine, but they will turn out soft and short-lived. Therefore, use self-hardening plasticine or salt dough.
Self-hardening plasticine
Since the material hardens quickly, pinch off small pieces from the bulk, which you keep sealed.
The easiest ways to sculpt plates, saucers and cups . Roll out identical balls and flatten them into thin circles. To make the plates the same, squeeze out the circles with a mold. It’s easy to make by cutting off the neck of a plastic bottle, such as a dairy bottle. Roll out a thin sausage from plasticine and attach the bottom to the bottom of the plate. Raise the edges of the plate slightly.
To make a cup, use your finger to make an indentation in the rolled ball or wrap a piece of plasticine around the rounded tip of a felt-tip pen. Attach a tiny flattened circle to the bottom, make a handle from a thinly rolled sausage. When the cup on the felt-tip pen has hardened, carefully remove it by gently twisting it from side to side.
We will not make the teapot hollow. Roll up a ball, attach a flattened small circle to the top of it - this is the lid, and to it is a very tiny ball. Make a spout and a handle from two thin plasticine sausages.
Advantages of the set and who will like Barbie's kitchen
Any girl over 3 years old and her parents will be delighted to play with the “household” doll—spending time with Barbie’s kitchen is not only fun and interesting, but also useful.
Here's what Yulia Zakorko, the mother of one of the owners of this set, says:
“I like that my daughter is already mastering her first culinary skills, learning what frying pans and pots are for, and learning how to operate a stove and oven. The items in the toy kitchen are surprisingly realistic, and I also like the idea of plasticine for vegetables or dough. By the way, the manufacturer assures that even if a child swallows it, it will not affect health in any way.”
Girls enjoy spending time playing with a stylish and economical doll.
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Zhenya, who received the kitchen as a birthday present, says:
“My Barbie is beautiful, fashionable, stylish, and at the same time cooks deliciously - this is exactly what Ken needs. I like to bake pies, make sandwiches, chop vegetables and set the table myself - I can do this for hours, forgetting about other toys.”
