Transform your garden into a creative laboratory with the Nils mud kitchen in FSC marine plywood. Equipped with a removable sink and multifunction oven serving as storage, it encourages imagination and creativity while developing fine motor and sensory skills from 1 year old.
Specially developed construction resistant to UV and weather for year-round play. Height 49cm perfectly adapted for autonomous handling. Safe design with rounded corners, easy to assemble and clean for intensive outdoor use.
Stimulates learning of measurements, textures, and simple scientific experiments. European Baltic birch certified manufacturing, water-based safe varnish. Durable investment turning nature exploration into structured educational moments.
Features
- Multifunctional equipment: Removable sink for easy cleaning and oven also serving as storage
- Outdoor resistance: Marine plywood with specially tested UV and weather coating
- Safe design: Suitable from 1 year old with rounded corners and stable construction
- Motor development: Stimulates fine motor and sensory skills through natural handling
- Integrated learning: Encourages measurements, textures, and simple scientific experiments
- Simplified maintenance: Easy to assemble, clean, and maintain for daily use
LOOVE Labels
- Sustainable management: FSC certified solid beech ensuring wood traceability as well as biodiversity preservation and respect for local communities.
- No overproduction: Made to order.
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European manufacturing: Made in Latvia.
Technical sheet
- Colors to choose from: natural wood, powder green, mahogany, powder blue, powder pink.
- Material: Solid wood and birch plywood.
- Treatment: Plant-based hard wax oils and stains (VOC-free), water-based paints.
- Certifications: CE European toy standards EN 71, FSC Controlled Wood Certification.
- Oven door closing system: Magnetic door.
- Hob and sink fixing system: magnets.
- Dimensions : H 90 cm x L 80 cm x l 38 cm
- Product weight: 22 kg
- Manufacturing: Europe (EU), Latvia
- Age recommended by manufacturer: 12 months and over
- Warranty: 2 years
Interview
- Clean with a dry, soft cloth. Otherwise, use a slightly damp cloth without detergent.
- For stubborn stains, use a mild detergent.
Assemblage
- Assembly manual: Included in the packaging, in French.
- Product to assemble yourself, easily (1 person).
- 30 minutes of assembly.
Traceability
- Solid birch wood, Cardboard - Latvia
- Plywood (FSC) - Latvia/Finland
- Paintings, screws - Germany
- Oils - Belgium
- Adhesive tape - Poland
- Robots CNC - SCM, Italie
- Hand tools - Festool, Germany
- Handcrafted parts - Latvia
Manufacturing partner
With his team of 12 artisans, Roberts designs and creates uniquely designed products on demand from his workshop in western Latvia.
All the items they offer are designed to offer children the best possible support for imitation games, nourish their imagination and decorate their spaces with beautiful furniture that invites them to play.
Aware of environmental issues and keen to help offer the best to our children, Robert works only with hand-picked European partners who provide him with the materials that guarantee healthy and safe products: wood from sustainably managed forests, treated with natural oils and dyes, as well as plastic-free packaging, made from certified, recycled or natural, and recyclable or biodegradable materials - from cardboard to adhesive tape.
What is the educational benefit of this product?
Imitation games are part of childhood and the construction of identity. Rudolf Steiner also defines the first cycle of childhood, between 0 and 7 years, as that of imitation - during which he goes from being one with his mother to that of a social and autonomous individual, and where imaginative imitation will hold a determining place in the same way as open play. The child will learn and discover, but also express his creativity and the cooker will be a support for the expression of the “100 languages”, a pillar of Reggio pedagogy.
It is through imitation play that the child will reproduce the behaviors he observes around him, from simple imitation to the creation of complex scenarios and role-playing games in which he is no longer the actor. principal but the director.
Jean-Ovide Decroly considered imitation and play as “anticipatory instincts”, essential maturation factors which give him a global understanding of reality. For Célestin Freinet, through imitation, just like observation or reading, the individual appropriates the experience of others, diversifying and accelerating his personal experience.
The importance of observation is found in Maria Montessori, who described the role of the absorbing mind in the child's learning and the importance for him to follow his mother everywhere to observe the world. Through support for imitation games and help in the kitchen, the cook will contribute to sensitive periods of coordination of movements (from approximately 18 months to 4 years), order (0 to 6 years), social behavior (more or less 2 years to 6 years), refinement of the senses (around 18 months - 5 years), and small objects (during his second year).
Participating, cooking “for real”, with their parents gives the child the opportunity to learn about real things in the real world, as recommended by Charlotte Mason.
What is the interest from a neuroscience point of view?
- Participation in sensorimotor, cognitive and socio-affective development* (*Through imitation of activities in the kitchen that require precision and planning (arranging and arranging small objects), role plays and interactions with adults and other children.)
- Strengthening neural circuits through repetition of gestures, tasks and interactions.
What is sensorimotor development?
Sensorimotor development is the process by which children develop their senses and learn to perform, control and coordinate their movements.
The senses include the best known ones: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, but also balance (thanks to the vestibular system) and proprioception (position of the body in space, given by the somatosensory system).
These different senses work in concert with each other and with the motor system.
On the side of motor development, we can distinguish two main categories of motor skills:
- gross motor skills, which refers to movements of the whole body or the large limbs and muscles of the body (legs, arms, trunk, head),
- fine motor skills, which refers to the movements of smaller muscles and limbs (fingers, hands, wrists, feet, ankles, toes, lips, tongue).
What is cognitive development?
Cognitive development is the process by which children acquire, organize and learn to use knowledge. Cognitive skills are numerous, varied, and are orchestrated by executive functions. They include, among others, language, goal-directed behaviors, planning, cognitive flexibility, short-term memory (or working memory), long-term memory, the ability not to be distracted, to control emotional reactions, etc.
What is socio-emotional development?
Social-emotional development is the process by which children acquire the ability to understand, express and manage their thoughts, emotions and behavior.
Social and emotional skills are also directly linked to how they perceive themselves and develop relationships with others.
What age groups is it suitable for?
The cooker is used from the moment the child begins to imitate the activities of adults in his games and to contribute to household chores, from around 18 months. Imitation games are useful until around the age of 4 to 6, and children can play them alone or with others.
What is the point of this product in summary?
- Develop fine motor skills, executive functions, social skills
- Serve as support for imitation games
- Feed your imagination
- Practice daily tasks by helping in the kitchen
- Learn to be independent
- Strengthen your self-confidence
- Collaborate on projects, guided by parents
Delivery
- Delivery costs are: Free
- This product is shipped from Latvia by our manufacturing partner Roberts.
- This item is made to order and has a manufacturing lead time of 1 to 2 weeks. Delivery is then made within 5 working days.
- Transport is managed by FedEx or TNT, except in exceptional cases.
- Once your package has been shipped, a tracking number will be communicated to you by email.
Back
Have you received your item but it does not suit you? Don't worry, you have 14 days from the date of receipt of your package to return the product concerned to us.
Being a small family business, we are unfortunately not yet able to offer you postage costs, thereturn costs are the responsibility of responsibility of the customer and returns are to be sent to the country of shipment of this product, Latvia.
To be eligible for a return, please ensure that the following conditions are met:
- The product must arrive in original and complete condition (packaging, accessories, instructions).
- The request does not concern tailor-made products for which the customer has provided personalization data (example: a cutting or manufacturing dimension).
Please understand that we cannot accept fitted, used or worn items as they will not be able to be relisted.
Return Process
Send your return request with your order number as well as the product you wish to return to our Customer Service by email to the following address: bonjour@monloove.com
⚠ Please note that a return received without prior contact may frustrate the right of withdrawal.
Refund
The refund will be made within 14 days after receipt of the products for the full amount of the returned products, via the same payment method as that used when ordering.
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Do not hesitate to contact us if you cannot find the answer to your questions: bonjour@monloove.com