Melissa & Doug Chef Puppet (Al Dente) with Detachable Wooden Rod Pretend Play Chef Puppet Pepe

What's for dinner? Just ask Chef Al Dente, dressed in a traditional chef’s coat, scarf, and floppy hat, for the special of the day! Young puppeteers can use one hand to open and close the 15-inch puppet’s mouth and change expressions, and the other hand to use the removable wooden rod to make the mustachioed chef gesture. Top-quality materials and realistic details make this puppet a playmate that will stand up to the test of time. Puppet play is a wonderful way to make connections and to explore feelings and new perspectives. It helps build vocabulary, dexterity, imagination, and creativity! Detachable rod is suitable for lefties or righties.

• Beautifully crafted 15-inch hand-and-rod chef puppet
• Removable clothing includes traditional chef’s coat, scarf, floppy hat
• Use one hand to manipulate the puppet's mouth and facial expressions, and the other to gesture with the removable wooden arm rod; rod attaches to either of the puppet’s hands, and is suitable for lefty or righty puppeteers
• Puppet play is a wonderful way to make connections, explore feelings and new perspectives, help build vocabulary, dexterity, imagination, and creativity