New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island

New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island is a child-sized mobile role-play station that combines a wood-effect preparation surface with two storage levels, rolling wheels and a practical handle. Supplied with play food and kitchen accessories, it gives young children an inviting place to prepare, organise and serve imaginary meals.

Created for children aged two and over, this 11-piece set brings useful storage into kitchen role play without taking over the whole play area. The open shelves keep resources visible, the baskets help children group and carry ingredients, and the wipe-clean plastic construction suits repeated use in homes, nurseries and early-years classrooms. Its mobile design also lets adults reposition the island when a role-play area changes from a home kitchen to a café, shop or food-preparation station.

Why Choose the New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island?

The strength of this kitchen island is the way it connects imaginative play with everyday routines. Children can choose ingredients, use the colander and tongs, organise food into baskets and decide what to prepare. Those simple actions create natural opportunities for conversation, turn-taking and sequencing while the accessible storage encourages children to select and put away their own resources.

How the New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island Supports Learning Through Play

Handling the tongs, moving food pieces and transferring items between the counter, colander and baskets gives children purposeful fine-motor practice. They need to adjust their grip, judge distance and coordinate what they see with how their hands move.

Pretend cooking also supports language development because children can name foods, describe actions and explain what they are making. An adult can extend the play with prompts such as “What comes next?”, “How many ingredients do we need?” or “Where should this food be stored?”

When two or more children share the station, they can negotiate roles such as cook, customer or shopkeeper. This helps make communication and cooperative play part of the activity without forcing a formal game.

Designed for Purposeful, Repeat Play

The counter can support food preparation one day, a market display the next and a café serving point after that. The two baskets and open shelving make it easy to swap or add compatible play-food resources while keeping the area organised.

Rather than limiting children to one fixed outcome, the New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island can be returned to in different ways as confidence develops. Adults can begin by modelling the basic activity and naming what is happening, then gradually invite children to make choices, explain their thinking, predict what may happen next or create their own variation. This makes the resource useful for supported adult-led learning as well as independent exploration.

Perfect For

• Home play kitchens and imaginative play corners
• Nurseries, preschools and EYFS classrooms
• Role-play cafés, shops and home-corner activities
• Children aged 2 years and over
• Settings that need mobile, accessible play-food storage

Practical Activity Ideas

• Create a pretend café and invite children to prepare, serve and describe a simple meal.
• Sort the food pieces into baskets by food type, colour or where they might be stored.
• Use the trolley as a market island and practise choosing items, counting purchases and taking turns as customer and shopkeeper.
• Model a tidy-up routine in which each accessory is returned to its basket or shelf.

Product Features

• Three-level kitchen island with a wood-effect preparation counter
• Two built-in storage shelves
• Two rolling wheels and a child-sized handle
• Includes 6 realistic play-food pieces, 2 baskets, a colander and tongs
• Wipe-clean plastic construction with smooth edges
• Some adult assembly required

Specifications

• Product name: New Sprouts Prep 'n' Store Kitchen Island
• Brand: Learning Resources
• Product code: LER9752
• Contents: 11 pieces
• Approximate assembled size: 55cm wide x 32cm deep x 49cm high
• Material: Plastic
• Colour: Teal, white, wood-effect and assorted accessory colours
• Use: Indoor role play
• Batteries: Not required
• Age suitability: 2 years+

Adult assembly and supervision are recommended. Please retain the packaging and supplier instructions for future reference.