Cooking with your kids can be very rewarding. However you have to be ok with messes and use a large amount of patience.
Here are a few tips to making the experience fun for everyone...
Here are a few tips to making the experience fun for everyone...
- Start with an easy recipe. Something that uses only a few ingredients.
- Make sure to wash your little ones hands. We also leave a chair at the sink so they can wash in the middle of making a recipe together.
- It is ok to get messy! That is part of the fun. If you want to have less mess place clear wrap over the counters and tie aprons on.
- Taste testing is a must. But not raw meat or egg, yuck!
- Take the time to talk while the baking or cooking is going on. What is on their minds?
- Let them do as much as possible. When I was nine I was making dinner. Show them how to cut and protect themselves using the oven. If we never show them, they will never learn.
- Let them clean up and put things away as you go.
- Make the place you eat special. Use the good dishes, eat in a fort you just made or have a picnic.
- Share what you make with others. Food is best served with company!
- Laugh! Smile! Retell the fun you had in the kitchen together.
Resources:
Recipe cards
Crazy Cake
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