Pasta Making and Shapes
Roll and stamp your way to early math exploration — with the help of kid-friendly kitchen play! Turn the handle on the working pasta machine to roll out sheets of playdough. Then practice shape identification by stamping out shapes with the cutters. For an extra delicious challenge, use the shape pattern cards to make more pasta shapes and turn them into pictures, or learn how to make circle, triangle, and square ravioli. The pasta-bilities are endless when it comes to math learning in the kitchen!Read more
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Why it’s awesome
Kid-friendly tools
Sturdy wood handle and crank designed for toddlers.
Shape pictures
Play cards explore shape patterns and pictures.
Pretend play pasta
Shape cutters create playdough ravioli.
What’s included?
Topics explored
Pretend play
Shape recognition
Spatial reasoning
From the desk of the product designer:
Behind the design
“Our original design for the pasta machine had the handle on the front. But after we noticed that kids really liked watching the playdough come out of the rollers, we moved the handle to the side so they could turn it and watch the dough at the same time! ”
- KiwiCo Product Designer
By the numbers
4
Pasta machine prototypes
many!
Times we rolled play-dough with the machine (just for fun)
7
Playdough recipes tested
Reviews
5.0
3 reviews
Tracy
07/19/2023
birthday gift for a 3yo princess and her mom said it was her fav out of all the toys she got.
Alexandra
01/15/2023
Love this toy so much. Works well with our homemade play dough. My son uses it to make long play dough roads for his cars. It’s perfect for making cut out play dough cookies as well as the pasta. The cut out tools are very high quality.
Christa
12/27/2022
So so so amazing. Kiwico thought of everything with this toy. My son (newly 3) has been playing with it nonstop since we received on Christmas. It is so sturdy (little grippies on the bottom!), and super super easy to crank. We used the compound it came with it as well as PlayDoh and both worked great. We’ve been “eating” pasta and “pancakes” for days. The price point is high…but honestly it was the story of how you re-engineered the product to be more user friendly that really sucked me in. I love that you saw and opportunity for improvement and took it. So glad to have this. My one tiny piece of feedback would be that I wish the crank had a screw on the outside so I could flip it for my left-y son. But since it’s so easy to crank this isn’t a deterrent for my son at all.
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