Our kids love Dora and our kids love pretend cooking, they love real cooking too. When I’m making dinner they go into their play kitchen and cook up dinner by my side. It’s a nice thing for us to do and it gives me some peace while I’m cooking. They come up with the best coffee flavors ever.

Now they can combine the world of Dora the Explorer with their cooking masterpieces. They can make chicken, cake and apples and any combination of them. Plus they get an apron, and yes my kids love to get all dolled up in their pastry hats and chef aprons. Next thing I know they’re going to be sharpening knives and dicing veggies faster than I can. That’s where imaginative play can take them. It could carry them into their first career. Who knows! Let them play and get creative.

Explore the world of cooking with Dora. The Dora the Explorer Cooking Play Mat is an on-the-go play set that features a play mat, chef’s hat, apron, and 2-sided cardstock plates of food. Whip up a delicious meal for Dora, Tico, and Boots. Serve your friends cake, chicken, apples, or empanadas – the double-sided cards show the “before” and “after” plates for a full range of fun. Clean up is easy – mat folds into a tote so you can set up your next party anywhere you go.

• Play mat folds into a tote for on-the-go fun
• 7-pc set features play mat, double-sided cardstock food plates, apron, chef?s hat
• Ages 3 and up

We received a sample to donate to charity.