Cooking teaches basic life skills
You can teach taste, touch, smell
Fun: Kids like a little messes and "playing" with grown up stuff
Math: Measuring teaches fractions (also doubling or halving a recipe)
Science: heating, cooling, rising, evaporation, etc.
Art: aesthetics "you eat first with your eyes" and color
English: teach cooking "vocabulary" and terminology
Geography: Make foods from different cultures
Health and Hygiene: Obviously can be taught
When looking for a recipe to try with your children....
- Look at your child's favorite meal or dessert
- Think about your child's age, limitations, and attention span
- Make sure there's "play time" involved (i.e. play with extra dough, use cookie cutters, ability to put things in a ziplock back to crush or mix or squish, let them decorate and personalize, etc.)
- First prepare them by learning about a certain food, culture, or whatever you want to help teach about
- Think of how you can simplify...cut up things ahead of time, get out items needs and lay them out so they are easy to find, prepare for messes to happen
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