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12 Gifts for Kid Cooks and Young Food Lovers

Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold
Cambria Bold is the Managing Editor of Cubby, and one of Apartment Therapy Media’s first full-time editors from way back when. She was the founding Design and Lifestyle Editor for Kitchn and the Managing Editor for Apartment Therapy’s green living site, Re-Nest (RIP). After a few years offline and then working elsewhere, she’s back to share ideas about design, kids, and family life. It’s helpful that she now has two little kids and lots of thoughts about all those things. She lives with said kids and their father in St. Paul, MN.
updated May 1, 2019
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For the last two weeks we’ve been sharing The Kitchn’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t offer a guide for the littlest cooks in our midst. If you’ve got a budding chef on your hands or a curious toddler following you around the kitchen, we’ve got 12 food gift ideas to excite, educate, and encourage them!

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Picnik Duo Kitchen, $150 from Giggle (Image credit: Giggle)
  1. Picnik Duo Kitchen, $150 from Giggle: This adorable all-wood play kitchen has everything your budding chef needs to practice his culinary skills.
  2. Pull Apart Poultry, $19.95 from The Land of Nod: Your little one will want to roast her own chicken right alongside you when you make this.
  3. Big Meals For Little Hands: Easy French Cuisine for Kids, $13.70 from Amazon: The perfect cookbook to teach your toddler to cook! Emma called it “flat-out adorable” in her review.
  4. Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mini Cooking Set, $24.95 from The Land of Nod: Legit pots and pans in miniature! No plastic here — they look just like the real thing.
  5. DUKTIG 14-Piece Vegetables Set, $7.99 from IKEA: Cute vegetables your child can cozy up to.
  6. Once Upon a Time in the Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from Classic Children’s Stories, $11 from Amazon: Let literature open the door to the wonderful world of food and cooking!
  7. Sunnyside Up Backpack, $32 from Baba Souk: Too cool for school.
  8. Crepe Shop, $58 from AhaLife: This awesome little set lets your child choose from strawberry, banana, pineapple, whipped or chocolate cream toppings to make their very own pretend crepes!
  9. Totally Bamboo 5-Piece Utensil Set, $5.99 from Amazon: For older kids ready to take a little ownership in the kitchen, their very own wooden spoon set.
  10. Small Thyme Cooks: Culinary Coloring and Activity Book, $12.40 from Amazon: Featuring “chef coloring pages, mushroom word search, sous vide math problem, chef coat design, madlib restaurant review, farm-to-table-maze, and other delicious wastes of time,” this is the coloring book for food nerds young and old.
  11. Linen Kids Apron, $44 from Poketo: A sweet and simple apron for your young chef.
  12. Broccoli Rattle, $18 from Huset Shop: For the littlest sweet peas just learning about food, a broccoli rattle to make them smile and catch all the drool.