MTA Wooden Bread Crate 18 Pieces

This delightful MTA Wooden Bread Crate brings the warmth of a bakery into early learning environments, inspiring imaginative play and hands-on exploration. Featuring 18 beautifully crafted wooden bakery items, including doughnuts, cinnamon scrolls, croissants, pretzels, bread rolls, and chocolate slices, this engaging set allows children to role-play, sort, cut, and serve baked goods just like in a real cafe or kitchen corner. Designed with realistic detailing and smooth wooden finishes, each piece encourages children to explore shapes, textures, and colours while supporting foundational early learning skills. The included wooden knife and tray offer added opportunities for pretend slicing, enhancing fine motor coordination and encouraging collaborative play. This versatile wooden set sits neatly within a sturdy wooden crate, making it ideal for both storage and play. Perfect for dramatic play areas, cooking role-play, or small world setups, the MTA Wooden Bread Crate invites children to explore everyday experiences in meaningful, creative ways. Durable, tactile, and engaging, it provides a rich sensory and imaginative learning experience for young bakers.

Educational Benefits

• Supports fine motor skills through grasping, cutting and manipulating wooden pieces.
• Encourages imaginative and social play as children role-play bakery and cafe scenarios.
• Builds language development by introducing new vocabulary around food, cooking and everyday routines.
• Enhances early mathematical concepts such as counting, sorting, matching and part-whole relationships.

Classroom Ideas

• Set up a bakery or cafe dramatic play corner where children can take orders, serve customers and role-play community roles.
• Use the pieces to support lessons on healthy eating, food groups and everyday nutrition conversations.
• Incorporate the set into numeracy sessions for counting activities or discussions about shapes and halves.
• Pair with other wooden food crates to create a full market stall experience for collaborative group play.

Safety & Information

• 3+ years
• Safety: Made from durable wood with non-toxic paints and finishes; smooth edges for safe handling; always use under adult supervision.