Little ones love to help especially when it involves food. When we built our house (from a floor plan we bought from Southern Living magazine!), we made a slight modification to the kitchen. I made the end portion of our kitchen island about 8″ lower than standard counter height. Why? Because I wanted our kids […]
What does your parenting approach look like? Do you do things differently from the way you were raised? Or are you emulating your own parents? One area I see parents doing things very differently is with eating. My daughter and her partner are taking a really different approach to meals with their 3 kids – […]
Children learn best when they experience the world firsthand – through touch, taste, smell, sight and hearing – cooking provides all of these opportunities to learn.
As we begin the new year, you can help beginning of year jitters by planning a cooking activity with your kids. When we prepare food and then eat it together, we work towards a common purpose. And everyone will enjoy it because who doesn’t love a great snack? Additionally, having an extra snack in-between meals […]
Everybody loves playdough, especially me. It’s a universal soother for toddlers through grownups! Have it out on the table for children to play with as they arrive in the morning and they’ll immediately become engaged, making goodbyes with parents a little easier. It lends itself to great conversation and imaginative play (everybody makes playdough snakes and […]
When my kids were young we had lots of tea parties. We’d set the table with a pretty cloth napkin laid out as a table cloth, a tray with a little tea set with sugar cubes and a little pitcher of milk, and sometimes a plate of cookies or crackers. They loved it and of […]
It’s holiday time and nothing means Thanksgiving like a good pumpkin pie. Here is a fun activity you can do with your students, no baking required! Ingredients: Vanilla Instant Pudding (prepared) Canned Pumpkin Whipped Topping Mini Graham Cracker Crusts Make sure you have enough of each ingredient for each child in your class. To prepare, […]
Cooking with kids is fun! The great thing about cooking with young children is it fosters healthy eating attitudes from an early age, while encouraging thinking about how things grow and then change in the cooking process. Don’t know where to start? Why not at the beginning! “Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, […]