Best for
Homes where pretend cooking, shop play and food talk already happen, or where you’d like vegetables to feel more familiar away from the dinner table.
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KITCHEN PLAY
Veggie Basket
by Tender Leaf Toys
A pretend vegetable basket for sorting, cooking and serving in your child’s own little world.
Vegetables can be the brave bit of dinner, especially when a new shape or colour lands on the plate. The Tender Leaf Toys Veggie Basket gives your little one a friendly way to meet garden-market favourites in pretend play, where they can sort, cook and serve vegetables long before tasting every one feels easy.
The Basket That Keeps Coming Back to the Kitchen
The play kitchen often changes with whatever is happening at home. Some days the basket becomes a market haul. Other days the vegetables are lined up, shared out, stirred into pretend dinner or offered with a very serious hot, hot, hot. Over weeks, your little one can return to the same pieces in new ways, giving vegetables a role in play long before they feel ready to welcome every one onto their dinner plate.
From 3 years
Recommended age
15.5 × 5.5 × 15.5 cm
Product footprint
$34.95
Unit price
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Unavailable
Two-year structural warranty
Structural faults are covered under our warranty terms.
Dispatched from Melbourne
Sent from our Melbourne warehouse with tracking.
Thirty-day change-of-mind returns
Available on eligible items returned unused and unassembled.
Our in-stock products are usually dispatched from Melbourne within 24–48 hours. During peak and sale periods, dispatch and transit times may be longer.
Decision guide
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Ideal age
36+ Months
Choose something else if
Not ideal if You need a real food preparation tool, a baby toy, or a product for children under 36 months.
Product overview
When Veggies Become Part of the Game
In family life, food is never just food; it is shopping lists, dinner choices, favourite plates and the brave taste no one is quite ready for yet. Veggie Basket slips neatly into that world. At first, your child might gather and sort the vegetables. Soon they are cooking soup, running a tiny market, or serving a plate to anyone nearby. Before long, those same vegetables start turning up again and again in the play kitchen, not because anyone asked, but because they now belong in the story.
Product details
Thoughtful details that make a difference
Vegetables feel familiar before dinner
Your child can handle, sort, cook and serve pretend vegetables in a low-pressure way, making them part of play before every vegetable has to be tasted.
Pretend play that changes with the day
The basket can move between play kitchen, market stall and make-believe meals, giving your child room to create their own food stories.
A ready-made market basket
The wicker basket and vegetable mix help the set feel like something gathered from a little farm stand, ready to carry, sort and place into the play kitchen.
Before you order
Practical information
Everything you need to know before bringing this product home.
Age and suitability
- Recommended age
- 36+ Months
Helpful answers
Frequently asked questions
The details families often want to know before choosing.
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