Cooking is a fantastic life skill that everyone should learn – after all, we all need to eat!
As a kid, I always enjoyed cooking and baking with my parents and grandparents, and eventually with my brother or on my own. I was given permission to be super involved in the kitchen and to try new things, and my interest grew from there.
Here are some suggestions to get your little ones started on their own culinary pursuits:
Very little complicated measuring is involved with this colorful cookie recipe from Betty Crocker. All the kids will need to do is combine cake and cookie mixes with softened butter and an egg.
After baking comes the best part – the decorating! Rather than making the frosting from scratch as this recipe suggests, buy a container or two of plain vanilla icing. Divide it up into a few different bowls and add food coloring to make your kids’ favorite shades.
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As Divinemom5 explains in the intro to her recipe on Food.com, having your own fancy ice cream maker isn’t a requirement if you want to let your kids take a crack at making their own at home. Sturdy zip-top bags are the key to tasty homemade soft serve.
These are Jell-O jigglers, without all of the added sugar and preservatives. This recipe from Ina Garten of the Food Network uses 100% fruit juice and plain unflavored gelatin to make a wobbly, fun and tasty snack.
Get out the cookie cutters and a few knives with rounded tips, and let your kids use their imaginations to create fun shapes and characters.
Cooking for kids doesn’t have to be all about dessert. These little hot dogs can be served as a fun snack dinner, or you can put your kids in charge of making a batch as an appetizer for your next party or family gathering.
This recipe from Sandra Lee at the Food Network is a lot like traditional pigs in a blanket, but it uses pre-made buttermilk biscuit dough.
As an alternative, try adapting this recipe to one that I have fond memories of making myself, on a sleepover visit to my aunt’s house years ago:
Use bite-sized pieces of chicken breast instead of the cocktail weenies, and wrap the cheese and meat in Pillsbury crescent roll dough instead of the buttermilk variety. Broccoli and cheddar make a great filling, too!
Found elsewhere online and shared by LoriInIndiana at Food.com, this snack is super simple to make, and fun at any age.
Rather than filling celery sticks with peanut butter and topping them with raisins to create ants on a log, try filling the celery with cream cheese instead, and top with happily swimming Goldfish crackers.
Better yet, get creative and give your kids a variety of nuts, seeds, dried fruit and celery fillings to work with, and let them create their own flavor combinations and corresponding descriptions of what their creations remind them of.
Time to call the kids into the kitchen and get cooking!
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