Cooking with Kids - What You Should Know

At what age should children be allowed to participate in the kitchen? If the idea of giving up the boys in the kitchen evokes a spaghetti graphics sticky mashed into the floor and spray dressing modeled on the wall, I'll give you some advice. And not all the clutter and clean.

In (sometimes) the mad rush to get food on the table on a regular basis, we sometimes forget that a fun activity for cooking can be. Its pleasures are certainly not lost, however, children who accept the creation of something special for a mere list of healthy ingredients that can enjoy eating the final.

From an early age, children pretend to cook - they are making mud pies in the sandbox, organize parties developed in the tea bath. They enjoy the process of choosing a recipe, the planning process, assembling the ingredients (creativity), measuring cups and spoons (mathematics), and cutting and peeling tasks requiring concentration and develop their capacity. Accompany your child in the kitchen will help you develop and strengthen the capacities of learning. Kids love the projects that have a beginning (preparation), middle (messy fun, creative), and the end (to eat and enjoy what they did).

Learning to cook is not only fun for children, but a skill that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Involve your children in the kitchen teaches them important life skills and if the guide in choosing ingredients wisely, can give them the satisfaction of nutritious foods instead of healthy fast food take profits.

Help your child feel comfortable with the cuisine of many hectares.

.Contribute to household chores helps them feel important .
. Learning to work together as a team to do the job .
. Learn to plan and make responsible decisions .
. Development and practice of creativity and imagination.

Cooking Party is the perfect way to celebrate the birthday of a young man eager to learn from the child. Not only is the cooking party provide valuable hands on activities to entertain them and their guests, but at the end of a meal that everyone can enjoy. eaters also decorated is excited to eat something, what have they done with their own hands. There is something about creating a meal itself, which makes them likely to eat what they were hand is doing.

It may take more time to prepare a meal, but moments with your children is priceless.

Suggestions:

. Always make sure that children have followed the kitchen .
. Never leave children unattended in the kitchen .
. Have fun and age .
. Let your child participate in the selection of a recipe for all to enjoy .
. Patience. Do not worry about the flour on the floor or spilled milk.
. Choose recipes that do not involve sharp knives or the oven .
. Choose simple recipes - dips, pizzas, cakes, cupcakes icing .
. Make sure children tie their hair back and wash your hands.

Here is a child-friendly recipes for beginners

vegies DIP

Ingredients:
1 point
1 Tspoon Dressing Cream of
Celery
Broccoli
Carrot

Direction:
Mix (to taste required) salad dressing with cream cheese and place in a small bowl. Cut and wash the celery, broccoli and carrots. Arrange cut pieces of vegetables in the bowl of dip. (The vegies are dipping into the trough).

Have fun!