Customer Reviews

Fisher-Price Grow with Me Kitchen (Exclusive)

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

We bought this kitchen last Christmas for our daughter when she was 16 months. She has loved it! We have now increased the height and she continues to play with it on a daily basis.
However, the durablity of this product is poor as far as the electronic components are concerned. It just suddenly stopped working and replacing the batteries did not solve the issue. I will add that Fisher Price was willing to provide a new toy, but I had to pay to ship the entire kitchen back first. A new toy would arrive in 6-8 weeks! Are you kidding!! Who is going to take their child's favorite toy away for 2 months? I might add that we had the same issue with the Laugh and Learn House. It seems that Fisher Price has durability issues with their electonic components. For this reason I cannot recommend their products.

We're going to get this for our 18 month old as a Christmas present - but I've been price shopping and Toys R Us (online and in stores) has this same thing for $69.00. Just a heads up.

When we were shopping for a birthday present for our 1 year old granddaughter, we were surprised at how substantial today's toy kitchens have become. We chose the Grow With Me because of its convertibility - small enough for her to use now, and expandable for when she's taller. No sense cluttering up landfills with too-small-too-early discarded toys. Corina loves playing with her kitchen, especially with the blender. It's sturdy, durable, and has no sharp corners or tight doors to scratch or pinch little fingers. And her parents like the fact that all the accessories can stow away inside the oven. All in all, we're happy with this product.

I bought this kitchen for my 19 month old grandson. It was the only kitchen I saw that was rated for children under 2 or 3 and it was by far the least expensive. It has the expected Fisher-Price quality. He loves it! It's the first thing he heads for when he comes to my house. It was simple to put together and simple to adjust in height. He's a tall boy, so I've already raised it to the preschool height. I agree with the first reviewer that it's probably too small for 5 year olds.

We bought this kitchen for my daughter's 1st birthday. It cost $70 at Toys 'R Us, so I was pretty surprised to see the price so high here. There are a lot of other bigger play kitchens out there, with more bells and whistles, but at the $70 price, this playfully colored kitchen is simple, but still great.

My daughter loved this kitchen immediately. At its low setting (only one row of appliances available), it was the perfect height for her at age 1. It comes with enough accessories that you don't need to buy additional pieces unless you want to. Still, other people have given my daughter kitchen accessories as gifts (play food, a tea set, etc.), and those gifts did really enhance my daughter's play.

She is now 3 1/2 years old, and she still enjoys playing with this kitchen. It is now set up in the higher setting, as shown in the product photo (two rows of appliances available). This kitchen has been a staple in her play area over the last few years. It really encourages imaginative play; my daughter can spend over an hour playing with it independently. She'll pretend to do dishes, make dinner, set up a party, etc.

The only problem we had with it was the blender - when it's positioned on its stand, and the button is pressed, I think it's supposed to turn so that playful berry characters are shown through "windows". For us, when you press the button, the little balls inside the blender bounce around, and it makes noise, but that's it. If we take the blender off the stand and turn a little knob underneath by hand, we can make these little berry characters appear through "windows". So, I think we got a broken blender, but you know, it never actually mattered at all, the blender is still fun to play with the way it is. Other than that, we did have an appliance door or two get pulled off just once or twice, but they snapped back on just fine, no biggie.

My 9-month-old son has already started poking around the kitchen, and I hope he enjoys it as much as my daughter has. While I try not to get caught up in gender roles, I am still happy that the mostly white-and-purple colors are gender neutral.

After seeing my daughter with this kitchen, two of my friends got the same kitchen for their daughters, and they have not been disappointed!

I just bought this today. Like most Fisher Price toys, it was very easy to assemble and is of very good quality. At $70, it is "cheap" compared to some of the other kitchens available. Other than size/height, I didn't see that the other kitchens were worth the extra money. This has 2 heights (very easy to switch between the two) - one for toddlers, and one for older kids. Although FP says this product goes up to age 5, I think the max age is 3.

Since we got this for my daughter for her 2nd birthday over a year ago, she has just LOVED it. She loves the accessories (which we have amazingly not lost), and loved the noises the knobs and buttons make. Notice I used the word "loved" (past-tense). After about 3 months, the front knobs stopped making the sizzling/bubbling noises, but the blender continued to work. I thought perhaps it was the batteries, but didn't get around to changing them for awhile. Once I finally did, I found out it made no difference. I then tried to find a separate battery compartment for the front knobs (there isn't one). Today I went to the manufacturers website and found replacement parts for the plastic accessories and whatnot (good to know) but nothing for the part that broke. I'll be calling on Monday to see what we can do, but based on another customer review here, I'm not all that hopeful. It would have been better if those knobs had never made noise, because now my daughter is constantly begging me to change the batteries (she thinks that will fix it), and I'm a mean mommy because I won't futilely keep putting fresh batteries in there. If it weren't for that, I'd give it 5 stars, but anything that makes me the bad guy through defectiveness loses stars on general principal.

We bought this kitchen for my daughter last year (she was 15 months at the time) from Toys R Us, for $80. She was thrilled with it on Christmas morning, and it has been a "quick stop" toy for her since (she is now just over 2 years old). But when she is around the more realistic looking kitchens with more appliances, she plays with them for much longer. Although it adjusts to her height (and the sounds change to more realistic sounds when you raise it to the second level) she still doesn't play with it for long periods. I suspect because there isn't much to it. Very little counter space- her toy food is always falling behind it, and the appliances open up to just a big space. It seems rather "babyish" now that she's two, and we're considering buying one of the larger, more realistic kitchens. Perhaps we should have made one of those purchases initially. It's perfect for a very young toddler. I just don't think it has the staying power for an older toddler to remain interested in it.

Assembly: Very easy, only a few screws. (Converting to the larger size is as simple as pulling the top up with your foot on the base).

Pros: Changable height. I got this for my 11 month old and it is the perfect height for her, but we will be able to convert it for her when she's older. When you convert the toy the sounds change from cute and fun toddler music and silly sounds, to realistic cooking and blender sounds. Also, the blender changes from spinning slowly and showing cute fruity characters to a fast, realistic spin with no characters. Plenty of accessories and the little shelf is a really cool feature.

Cons: The sink comes out which of course is the first thing my daughter takes out and throws. She is constantly trying to the climb onto the kitchen as well so be careful if you have a climber. The way the oven door folds down a young toddler is inevitably going to end up standing on it, and though it doesn't seem like it will break, it might.

Price paid: $69.99 at Toys R Us

My daughter got this for Christmas back in 2006. It's now being passed down to my other daughter of 8 months with no visible cracks. My daughter has played with this for what seems like hours over the years.
The only reason I gave it 4 stars is b/c about 6 months after we got it, the sounds stopped working. It would make a hot water bubble sound and another I can't quite remember. I tried replacing the batteries, which didn't work. The blender worked when turned on, but not fully until today when I took it down to the single stack did if finally work. After almost 2 years. I do like the fact that you can adjust the size of it to your childs height. But it's mostly been in the top position, until today.
There also was an addition to this kitchen that I wanted to get now, but I don't seem to be able to find it. I think it was just more storage.
My older daughter still uses it till this day. It doesn't have nearly as much offered as some of the other kitchens, but my daughter doesn't know that and what she doesn't know, wouldn't hurt her.
We didn't buy this to begin with, so as a gift it was very nice. Would I buy it if given the choice, probably not. There's so much more out there with the other kichens.