Enjoy baking with your little ones with the Playful Chef Cookie & Cupcake Set. These kid friendly tools and recipes are perfect for creating family time memories, and treats for all your friends and family.

Kid-Friendly Recipes

• Sugar Cookies • Ginger Snaps • Icing • Chocolate Cupcakes

• Plus Fun Facts!

16 Child-Size Baking Tools

• Whisk­• Spatula

• Rolling Pin • Coupler

­• 50 Cupcake Liners

• 3 Pastry Bags

­• 4 Decorating Tips

• 4 Cookie Cutters

Make Eating Fun. Playful Chef: Real Cooking for Kids

Playful Chef Pizza Set

Ages 6+

Real Cooking for Kids

Make Eating Fun.

4 Kid-Friendly Recipes

• Pizza Dough • Cheese Pizza • Chocolate Pizza • Breakfast Pizza

• Plus Fun Facts!

7 Kid-Size Pizza Tools

• Ladle

• Rolling Pin

• Set of 3 Prep Bowls

• Pizza Pan

­• Pizza Cutter

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The Playful Chef Cookbook includes 33 creative and fun recipes, each incorporating tips on planning, shopping, tools, safety, and nutrition.

Recipe sections include:

• Eggcellent Breakfast Dishes
• Main Dishes
• Mix It Up Salads
• Snack Attack
• The Science of Cooking
• Traditional Holiday Favorites
• International Holidays
• Pet Treats

PLAYFUL LIFE INTRODUCES 2 NEW PLAYFUL CHEF KITS
PATENTED SYSTEM OF 5 RECIPES AND COOKING TOOLS TEACHES NUTRITION, SCIENCE, AND IMAGINATION NOW AVAILABLE FOR KIDS 3-5 AND FOR KIDS 6 & UP
SAN FRANCISCO, January 3, 2008: Playful Chef, a kids cooking kit with real tools, is now available in 2 separate kits specific for kids 3 to 5 years old and for kids 6 years old and up.
Playful Chef provides children with a fun, interactive way to learn how to plan a healthy meal, shop for ingredients, and the science of cooking. Created by Lisa Ligon, a former Bay Area high tech executive and cooking teacher, the Playful Chef Cooking Kit was developed to help children learn both simple cooking principles as well as basic life skills.
“Playful Chef was created to help leverage all of the learning lessons that cooking provides children,” Ligon explains. “As a children’s cooking teacher, I
can see how much cooking helps them develop healthy eating habits, and a real enthusiasm and appreciation of good food. Cooking is a fabulous family activity that can teach important lessons while being fun and creative.”
Both kits feature 5 original recipes with instructions on how to plan a healthy meal, shop for ingredients, organize the right tools, and safety tips. Each recipe card has 10 cooking steps that help teach children how to follow a process. Throughout the recipes, there are illustrations to show parents and kids what the learning lessons are for each step, including hygiene, nutrition, motor skills, science, and math through measuring, seasoning, cleaning up, safety, timing and social skills. Color-coded measuring cups and spoons make learning math and fractions fun.
Differences between the two new Playful Chef Kits

Playful Chef Kit for Kids ages 3 – 5

Bright Red Apron
Safety Scissors are included with 9 other cooking tools
Recipes are formatted with parental instructions.
Recipes include: Peanut Butter Fun, Pita Pizza, Chocolate Lava Cake, Golden Chicken Nuggets, and Yogurt Fruit Parfait
Playful Chef Kit for Kids ages 6 and up

Denim Blue Apron (25% larger than 3+ apron)
Real Kitchen Scissors are included with 9 other cooking tools
Recipes are designed for more child independence, with parental supervision
Recipes include: Fruit Yogurt Parfait, Chocolate Lava Cake, Golden Chicken Nuggets, Egg and Cheese Brunch Soufflé, Simply Delicious Spaghetti

Brands: Playful Chef Cooking Kits for Kids– Helping Kids Learn Healthy Eating Habits through Cooking. This cooking kit features a patented learning system that includes 10 kid-sized cooking utensils, 1 denim tool belt apron, and 5 hands-on healthy recipes. The kit comes in two versions, one for ages 3+ and one for ages 6+. WINNER – Spring 2007 iParenting Media Outstanding Product Award AND Dr. Toy’s Best Products Resource Program Award Spring 2007, San Francisco International Gift Fair Design for Living Award 2007 and TDmonthly Top Toy 2007 Award.
Playful Chef Cookbook – The cookbook includes 33 creative and fun recipes, each incorporating tips on planning, shopping, tools, safety, and nutrition, composed in 10 easy steps. WINNER – Spring 2008 iParenting Media Outstanding Product Award

Playful Chef French Cooking Set – The French Cooking Set includes an adjustable Chef’s Hat, French inspired tools, 5 recipe cards, a map of France, and French vocabulary.

Playful Chef Farmer’s Market Set – The Farmer’s Market Set is perfect to take to the supermarket or farmer’s market. The set includes a colorful reusable shopping bag, Farmer’s Market booklet, produce scrubber, and Playful Helper towel.
Playful Chef Place Mats – The Playful Chef Place Mats are bright, fun, PVC free place mats in 4 vibrant designs.

Playful Party Planner – Playful Party Planner, created especially for kids includes etiquette tips, creative ideas, and list makers. The Planner will help children channel their creative genius, inner socialite, and list lover. They will be able to design, coordinate, and execute the perfect celebration in no time.

Playful Play Date Planner – Playful Play Date is an easy to use planner for parents and children to work on together to learn how to execute a successful play date for both the host and the guest.

Featuring 11 parent instructional pages: What to expect & What to Say, and 33 ready-to-go kid activities: games, art projects, discussion lists and 2 tear-out play-sheets for each activity. A CD Rom of kid activities is also included.
Vision: Playful Life produces products that help kids learn healthy eating habits that will last a lifetime. Our vision is to combine all the fun of the culinary arts with the best practices from leading edge educators and nutritionists to create an experience that makes learning fun. With the combination of our cooking kit, recipes, party planners, newsletter, website, and on-line cooking demonstrations, Playful Life Products make healthy eating and party etiquette an adventure for children of all ages.

TURN PLAY DATES FROM NIGHTMARE TO PLEASURABLE AND REWARDING WITH PLAYFUL PLAY DATE
A SOCIAL SKILLS SURVIAL GUIDE FOR AGES 3 TO 5

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 2007: Preschool, soccer practice, music class, play dates … even for the pre-K and Kindergarten child, it is a social jungle out there! Playful Play Date outlines what children can lean at each age and outfits parents with easy interactive activities that create meaningful memories while building social skills and self-confidence.

Playful Play Date is an easy to use planner for parents and children to work on together to learn how to execute a successful play date for both the host and the guest.

Featuring 11 parent instructional pages: What to Expect & What to Say, and 33 ready-to-go kid activities: games, art projects, discussion lists and 2 tear-out play-sheets for each activity. A CD Rom of kid activities is also included.

“Well developed social skills are important to living a happy and healthy life, and we’re so happy that we can provide an easy-to-use and fun tool for kids and parents.” Said Lisa Ligon, a former Bay Area high tech executive and cooking teacher, the Playful Play Date was developed to help children learn both simple social principles as well as basic life skills.

KIDS – PLAN YOUR OWN PARTIES WITH THE PLAYFUL PARTY PLANNER !
PLAYFUL PARTY PLANNER PRODUCED ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS, INCLUDING ETIQUETTE TIPS, CREATIVE IDEAS, AND LIST MAKER

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 2007: Playful Party Planner is finally here! Children love parties: birthday parties, holiday parties, tea parties. But do they know how to plan and host their own party?

A successful party host needs an array of imaginative ideas, a talent for talking to people, and outstanding organizational skills. The Playful Party Planner will help children channel their creative genius, inner socialite, and list lover. They will be able to design, coordinate, and execute the perfect celebration in no time.

The Playful Party Planner, created by Lisa Ligon, a former Bay Area high tech executive and cooking teacher, is perfect for children of all ages. “Allowing children to help their parents plan parties and family get-togethers can be a great way for kids to learn social skills. We are thrilled to be releasing this handy event planning guide!”

The Playful Party Planner includes 5 tear-out lists for every party-planning step, easy to follow 10-step process, and a CD Rom of party lists. Some chapters include: How to be creative: party themes and decorations and music, How to be socially skilled: being a good host and guest, guest list and invitations, activities, thank you notes, etc.

The Playful Chef Cookbook Helps Children Learn Healthy Eating Habits for Life!
The cookbook includes 33 creative and fun recipes, each incorporating tips on planning, shopping, tools, safety, and nutrition, composed in 10 easy steps.
SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, 2007: The Playful Chef Cookbook, a new kids cookbook, will be available early in 2008, for parents nationwide who are looking for delicious, healthy meals to create with their children while teaching about the kitchen and cooking.
Featuring 33 original recipes, written in the same style as those included with the original Playful Chef Cooking Kit. Each recipe has instructions on how to plan a healthy meal, shop for ingredients, organize the right tools, and safety tips. Also, there are 10 cooking steps that help teach children how to follow a process. Throughout the recipes, there are illustrations to show parents and kids what the learning lessons are for each step, including hygiene, nutrition, motor skills, science, and math through measuring, seasoning, cleaning up, safety, timing and social skills.

Created by Lisa Ligon, a former Bay Area high tech executive and cooking teacher, the Playful Chef Cooking Kit was developed to help children learn both simple cooking principles as well as basic life skills. “We are thrilled to be publishing this companion piece for the Playful Chef cooking kits. We’ve had many requests from customers to supply additional recipes in the Playful Chef format, and we’re delighted to provide additional learning opportunities.” Ligon explains.
Playful Chef has been selected as a winner of the iParenting Media Outstanding Product Award 2007 www.iparentingmediaawards.com, Dr. Toy’s Best Products Resource Program Spring 2007 www.drtoy.com, and Toy Directory Monthly’s Top 20 Toys of 2007 Award www.toydirectory.com.

The Cookbook and Chef Kit are suitable for ages 3 and up and provides children with a fun, interactive way to learn how to plan a healthy meal, shop for ingredients, and the science of cooking
The Playful Chef Cookbook is available in the US and Canada. For the retailer nearest you, please go to www.playfulinc.com. For additional information, call 415-310-9742.