About Playful Chef
Playful Chef is a children’s cooking brand that transforms mealtime into a hands-on learning experience. Designed for kids ages 3 and up, our products combine real kitchen tools, easy-to-follow recipes, and themed activities that build confidence, creativity, and essential life skills.
Our Mission and Values
Playful Chef was created to support social-emotional development, healthy eating habits, and early STEAM learning through the power of play. Each product is thoughtfully developed to make cooking with kids simple, safe, and fun—whether you’re planning a tea party, a pizza night, or a science-inspired kitchen experiment.
Rooted in values like connection, creativity, and lifelong learning, Playful Chef offers an engaging way for families to cook together while reinforcing important developmental skills. Our kits are designed to grow with your child—helping them feel capable and curious in the kitchen from their very first stir to their most imaginative creations.
From story-based kits for younger chefs to advanced baking and hosting sets for older kids, Playful Chef inspires meaningful moments that make cooking a family adventure.
Playful Chef is a licensed brand of Mindware
Founded in 1990, Mindware began as a small retail store in Minnesota, evolving into an award-winning creator of fun and innovative educational toys and games.
For over 30 years, they’ve partnered with toy and game inventors around the world and scoured the globe for the most engaging assortment of building sets, toddler toys, board games, science kits, crafts, puzzles, pretend play, STEM, and more.
