New Toy: Cooking

From fine dining to culinary chaos, this kitchen serves up endless imagination.

Highly requested and thoroughly tested by little chefs, our newest Cooking toy has been a long time coming! We’ve used everything we’ve learned about how kids play to create an intuitive, exploratory culinary experience that Gordon Ramsay would absolutely not approve of.

Since releasing the House toy back in 2021, we’ve watched with joy as kids let their imagination run wild in its kitchen. They’ve blended turkey smoothies, cooked steak in the clothes dryer, served worms from the garden, and tested food in ways we truly could not have predicted ourselves. 

It became clear that the kitchen gave children something special: a place to exercise their experimental energy without the consequences of a real kitchen. After all, part of what makes these interactions so rewarding is that it is a space they are familiar with in their own home. Even in their earliest years, they grasp the absurdity of making a turkey smoothie, or repeatedly burning potatoes to soot.

It was about time that we gave little ones a dedicated space to follow their culinary curiosities and hone their unique craft. Now, they can do just that in Cooking, alongside a curious cast of human and animal guests!

How to Play

Guests
The toy will open to a main dining table featuring an assortment of guests. You can tap each one to see their craving appear above their head, or try your luck feeding them a different dish! Once they eat, they will exit to let another guest dine. Characters may also appear through the window by the sink. If you tap on them, they will appear at the table shortly after. 

Setting
Want to set the ambiance? You can tap the table, chairs, clock, and wall art, to cycle through variations of each! Tap the radio to turn the music on or off.

Cooking
The kitchen offers a variety of produce, proteins, and some peculiar choices that the guests may or may not care to eat! These can be found all around the kitchen and you can even use the yellow toggle on the displays to view more options. 

Kids can use the sink to fill a pot with water for boiling, fry things on the stove, bake in the oven, mix in the blender, chop on cutting boards, and even use a noodle maker to bring their wildest recipes to life. Place a dish in front of a guest once you’re done to see if they’ll eat it! If they push it away, maybe someone else will give it a try.

Cleaning
Just like in a real kitchen, cooking can get messy! Kids can do their part in helping clean up by wiping away spills with the sponges, discarding items in the trash cans, or loading the dishwasher.

What kids will learn:

• Cause & Effect: Every tap in Pok Pok helps build an idea of inputs and outputs—a cause and its effect. Many of these interactions also mirror real-life actions, so they can bring this knowledge into their daily life! In Cooking, they’ll advance this concept with interactions like boiling water, chopping produce, cleaning, and more.
  
• Real-Life Responsibilities: Kids get to be introduced to real responsibilities in a low-stakes environment. Because they can exercise these tasks first in play, many may naturally transition to applying them beyond the screen! This can be everything from learning safety with hot appliances to the task of loading the dishwasher.

• Problem-Solving: Figuring out how to create their desired dish will flex critical thinking and problem-solving muscles. The steps that may seem obvious to us adults are a mystery to our children! Can they pour liquid into a bowl? Where can they find the vegetable they want? What if they don’t like a result and need to start again? These are simple but very important skills for kids to exercise. 

• Memory: Each time they play, kids will build upon their spatial awareness and memory of the kitchen. They’ll soon remember where the blender lives or certain ingredients, as well as the outcomes of various interactions.

There’s truly no end to the learning opportunities in this toy—and better yet, the potential for fun and silliness is endless too! We can’t wait to hear about all the innovative ways your little ones explore and express themselves in Cooking. Look out for fresh ingredient updates to follow in the coming weeks to add new inspiration to their dishes!

P.S. You can use this link to prompt the update on your child’s device if the update has not happened automatically.

We’ve been so inspired by the unique approach of each child who plays with our toys and can’t wait to hear what families like yours think of this one. Receiving your feedback, videos, and ideas for new updates is so important for the growth of Pok Pok, so please say hello at hello@playpokpok.com or on social media @playpokpok.