Ice Cream Bowl with Spoon - Set of 6

Serve up delicious desserts with these bowls and spoons! Made from sturdy stainless steel, they can be used in indoor kitchens as well as outdoor mud kitchens. They can also be used during water play to scoop and as loose parts. Set includes 6 bowls and 6 spoons. Bowl size: 100mm x 60mm x 100mm. Spoon size: 140mm Length. Age Suitability: 3 Years +

As an educator, you'll find this Ice Cream Bowl with Spoon - Set of 6 is so much more than a dessert set. These durable stainless steel pieces are perfect for pretend ice cream shops, cafe role play, mud kitchen experiments and water trough exploration. Their metal construction adds a wonderful sensory element - cool to the touch, satisfyingly weighty and ideal for clinking, scooping and pouring. Because they can move easily between indoor dramatic play, outdoor messy play and water investigations, they earn their place as a flexible, long-lasting resource in your program. Children can work together to "serve" , measure, portion and share, all while building social skills, language and early maths concepts in a playful, meaningful context.

Educational benefits:

• Supports imaginative play as children create cafes, ice cream stalls and restaurants, building rich oral language and social interaction.
• Strengthens fine motor skills and coordination through scooping, pouring, stirring and serving.
• Encourages early mathematical thinking as children count scoops, compare amounts and talk about full, empty, more and less.
• Enhances sensory exploration through the feel, sound and temperature of stainless steel during sand, mud and water play.

Classroom & play activity ideas:

• Set up an "ice cream shop"  with coloured playdough or pom poms as scoops, encouraging role play, turn-taking and money language.
• Add to the mud kitchen as serving bowls for "soups" , "potions"  and "mud sundaes"  to extend outdoor imaginative play.
• Use in water play for pouring, filling and comparing volumes, linking to vocabulary such as full, half and empty.
• Incorporate into loose parts provocations with natural materials (petals, pebbles, seeds) for sorting, patterning and pretend cooking.

Product Details

• 3 years+; always use under adult supervision.
• Contents: 6 stainless steel bowls and 6 stainless steel spoons.
• Bowl size: approximately 10(L) x 6(H) x 10(W) cm.
• Spoon size: approximately 14(L) cm.
• Sturdy stainless steel suitable for indoor kitchens, mud kitchens and water play.
• Wipe clean after use and dry thoroughly; not recommended for submersion over long periods in very wet or corrosive mixtures. Check regularly for dents or sharp edges and remove from use if damage occurs.