FAMILY THINGS TO DO AT HOME
Cook with Your Kids
5 Great reasons to Cook with your kids
1. It engages other senses. Cleaning fruits and nutrition. Cooking can also be great lesson in time
vegetables, tearing or cutting them, kneading bread, management and project planning, especially as part of
stirring cookie dough all engage their sense of touch meal planning and making sure multiple items are ready
and introduce them to new textures. Smelling the food for a meal at the same time.
they assembled cooking engages the nose, and hearing
things bubble and pop during cooking will engage their
hearing.
3. It can introduce your child to other cultures. As you
prepare foods from other lands with your children, it
gives you an opportunity to discuss other aspects of
2. Cooking is a STEM exercise. Cooking introduces a regions geography, climate, native ingredients, and
children to counting, measuring and fractions in a real cultural events that have a connection to the food.
work environment. Chemistry is introduced when you
see how ingredients change with the addition of other
ingredients or heat. It gives a great segue to discuss
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4. They can learn safety. It is imperative to teach our
children about kitchen safety. Even as toddlers, children
need to be taught to avoid hot and sharp items. As they