Fun Cooking with Kids

Have you ever wondered if getting children involved with cooking will teach them about mathematics, reading and creativity? To cook is to follow the instruction and to follow the instruction kids that can not read have to learn to read (with parental help). When gathering and using ingredients children will learn fun ways to count for example let them add 1 spoon of chocolate powder, 2 cups of flour and stir it in 3 cups of water. Visually, they will also start to learn about how a recipe comes together, when they have to use their new cooking skills to guess what is the right amount of ingredients to make the dough not to be too gooey or too hard. Children's creativity will be use when they got to decorate they cake or making shape for they cookies. On this basis, cooking is an all round great activity for fun or play based learning.



Most children think cooking is just like crafting but the exception that they can eat what they create. It can make them feel happy and proud of what they have achieved in creating something that they or others can then enjoy. In this case working as a team together with your child also means that parents can spend more time together.



If you're looking for inspiration for an easy fun recipe, here is my favourite cookies recipe:

Ingredients:
4 cups of self raising flour (500g)
2 cups of corn/maizena flour (250g)
4 yolks of eggs
250 g unsalted butter (softened by room temperature)
1 1/4 caster sugar (250g)
A pinch of salt

If you want to make chocolate cookies simply substitute 100g of the flour for chocolate powder.

Steps:

What do you like cooking with your kids?

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