Ten vegetables, each cut from foam and each given a face. A white mooli with fine drawn lines down it. A red desi gajar with a full green top. A red chilli, a long green courgette, a deep purple baingan with a green crown, a brown potato, a big red tamatar with a green stalk, a green shimla mirch, a purple onion with its papery lines, and a magenta-and-white turnip with leaves.

The carrot is worth pausing on: it is drawn red, not orange. That is not a printing error — it is the desi gajar a Pakistani child sees in the bazaar every winter, and a chart drawn with a European orange carrot quietly teaches them that the vegetable at home is the wrong one. Whoever designed this set was looking at a Pakistani vegetable stall.

Faces are what get a three-year-old to name a vegetable they refuse to eat. A smiling baingan is a character rather than a food, and a class that has spent a term with these cut-outs on the wall will name all ten long before they will willingly eat half of them. Nursery teachers use exactly that gap — name it first, taste it later.

Every vegetable is a separate piece, so the set is not fixed in one arrangement. Common uses are a border along the top of a food corner, a sorting activity by colour, or ten pieces handed out one per child for a naming game. Because they are foam, the ones that get handled daily keep their colour where a card cut-out would soften at the edges.

The set comes with no name labels, so if you want the words on the wall you write them yourself. Most Pakistani classrooms want both languages anyway — mooli and radish, baingan and aubergine — and a card with the two written side by side does more than a printed English plaque would.

Nothing has an adhesive backing and no size is printed on the pieces or the red banner, so we claim neither. Safencia sells the set at Rs. 1,050 with Cash on Delivery all over Pakistan — WhatsApp us and we will confirm stock, measure a piece and give you your city's delivery charge before dispatch.

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