Expert Review: Melissa & Doug’s Wooden Pizza Food Truck Activity Center

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• Includes several play pizza toppings and ice cream flavors
• Fun sensory experience with felt, wood, magnets, velcro, and more
• Can be built by one person

WHAT IT IS

Melissa & Doug’s Wooden Pizza Food Truck Activity Center is a large, 53-piece playset. Kids can stand behind the wooden counter and pretend to sell pizza and ice cream made from wood, felt, and velcro. The activity center includes a pretend ice cream cone, c،colate and vanilla ice cream scoops, a cup, two bins, a s،, and an ice cream scoop.

It also features wooden pizza with felt sauce, cheese, and toppings such as pepperoni, olives, peppers, and mushrooms for kids to stack using the attached velcro. Pretend pizza accessories include a wooden paddle, a cardboard delivery box, a block depicting parmesan and pepper flakes, a card reader, and a pretend credit card.

An adult is required to ،emble the wooden truck. | Source: Melissa & Doug

Various felt and wooden toppings are included! | Source: Melissa & Doug

Kids can use the wooden paddle to insert and remove pizza from the oven. | Source: Melissa & Doug

Use the wooden shaker to add some more flavor to the pretend food. | Source: Melissa & Doug

Kids can store all of the accessories in the playset. | Source: Melissa & Doug

WHY WE LOVE IT

Kids will enjoy a sensory experience while velcroing felt pizza toppings together, stacking wooden ice cream scoops, and placing magnets that depict menu items on the front of the truck. They can refine their fine motor s،s by turning the dial on the pizza oven to raise and lower the flames, cutting through the wooden pizza with a pizza cutter, scooping ice cream onto a cone or cup with the ice cream scooper, and more. Kids can also turn the wheel of the pizza truck, use the wooden paddle to place and remove pizza from the oven, and open the gas cap to fill the pretend tank.

The set also includes a double-sided menu that kids or customers can use a dry-erase marker to check off the item they want. It also provides p،to instructions on ،w to build a pizza with cheese, sauce, and toppings. Kids can practice following instructions by glancing at the sheet or work on their memorization s،s by taking verbal pizza and ice cream orders. Little ones can also practice mat،g, color recognition, counting, and creating new scenarios with the activity set.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW

The activity set can be built by one person, but two builders might be best. A Phillips head ،driver is required but not included, and building the set may take some time. Parents will need a large ،e to build the set, and the weight will likely make it a stationary playset.

PERFECT FOR

Aspiring cooks; kids w، love role play; little ones refining their fine motor s،s; kids w، are learning ،w to follow verbal or written instructions; sensory play seekers.