Cooking is a lot of fun , especially when things are in the correct sizes and proportions for small hands! The recipes we will be using f...

Story starters can be helpful to children when learning to organize their thoughts into a story that they tell or an essay that they wr...

Young kinesthetic and audio learners especially benefit from teaching activities like finger plays. Here is a fun finger play to use whe...

Use your time in the kitchen to teach across the curriculum. Relate what the child is doing to arithmetic, reading, science, and geogra...

While Cooking with Young Children Everyone should have a chance to see, smell, feel, and possibly  taste the ingredients before the...

There are many ways to prepare a recipe so that they are easy for young children to use. Here is one idea that you might use when inco...

1. Post a chart (or the recipe) where it can be easily seen. This chart should include pictures of the utensils along with pictures illust...

Planning for the Cooking Experience At first, cooking projects should have few steps such as taking peas out of a pod (children ag...

Safety is very important when children are using real kitchen equipment. Impress upon them that safety comes first and teach them how ...

Play is a child's work. And work is child's play. This is illustrated so well in the kitchen! Children enjoy helping with putt...

We all know that nutrition has a clear relationship to brain function.  Fruits and vegetables are filled with antioxidants, vitamins, a...