Description
Enhance your home corner role play provision with the Home Corner Role Play Kitchen Oven & Hob 1–2yrs. Carefully selected by Early Excellence curriculum specialists, this realistic wooden oven & hob unit encourages young children to recreate familiar cooking experiences through meaningful imaginative play. As children imitate everyday routines from home, they develop communication, early language and an understanding of the world.
Inspired by home environments that children know and recognise, the hob invites children to explore familiar cooking routines, copy the actions of others and represent their own experiences through play. As they play alongside others, they hear and use new vocabulary, negotiate roles and begin to build confidence in expressing their ideas in meaningful contexts.
Combine the oven & hob unit with the Home Corner Role Play Resource Collection 1–2yrs to enrich children's play. Using the breakfast resources, children can pretend to boil eggs by placing the bowl onto the hob as a saucepan, before carefully transferring the eggs into egg cups and serving breakfast to their peers. These repeated, familiar experiences strengthen fine motor control while helping children make sense of everyday routines.
Children revisit these experiences, developing schemas such as containing, transporting and transforming as they move, organise and use resources with increasing purpose. Through this active exploration, they build coordination, independence and a growing understanding of the world around them.
For extended role play opportunities, combine the hob with the sink unit and low square table to create a complete home corner where children can prepare, serve and share meals together.
Explore the full range of Early Excellence Role Play Resources to create an engaging environment that encourages imagination, collaboration, communication, and a deeper understanding of the world.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing hand–eye coordination through familiar pretend play
- Exploring everyday routines by copying real-life actions
- Supporting early language by naming objects and talking about routines
- Building confidence and independence through familiar, safe play
This Home Corner Role Play Kitchen Oven & Hob 1-2yrs includes:
- 1 wooden kitchen unit with hob with oven storage cupboard, approx. L40 x W44 x H40cm
- Suitable from age 12 months and over, under appropriate adult supervision
Safety Information
For use with children from 1-2yrs: resources must ONLY be used with effective, close adult supervision.
The competency and development of each child should be considered before introducing the resource into the environment. This must be regularly monitored and assessed as new children begin their learning journey within the environment.
For full safety information, please see Product Care & Safety Guidance Leaflet.
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown; however, we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value.
Secondary images are used for representation purposes only.
