15 Fun Easy Recipes for Teaching Kids to Cook
15 Fun Easy Recipes for Teaching Kids to Cook, because…I have like these little homemaking/survival rules in my head that I think every child should learn as they are growing up. This includes BOYS learning to Cook in the kitchen too!I think every child should know how to stick a seed in the ground and watch it grow into food… so teaching creative Gardening with kids AND teaching kids to cook those yummy garden goodies is tops on my list!!
I think that children need to learn about their bodies and how to take good care of them…aka like drinking water and personal hygiene too!
One of the most important homemaking skills we can pass on to the next generation is teaching kids to cook. After all, don’t we need to eat? YUM! In this crazy fast paced world we don’t want our children learning that the only way to feed their hungry bodies is to drive thru a fast food joint. Do we?! Please say YES!
15 FUN Easy Recipes for Teaching kids to Cook
These are also a fun and easy recipes to teach students if you have a home daycare or Montessori.
Teaching kids to make simple things like breads and pizzas should be the minimum basics:
These mini pizzas with home bread are our kids favorite recipe for learning to cook!
I also realize that not everyone LOVES to cook like me, so the challenge is to find fun and tasty recipes while making it enjoyable and easy for all. It doesn’t have to be difficult, a simple food can become a gourmet meal..to a kid!
Be sure to actually do them!
You’ve just got to try this super simple no fire S’mores Kabobs! So easy and so YUM!
I just love this fun idea with Pancakes from No. 2 Pencil! So creative and so easy!
We all want our kids to eat breakfast, right?! Well this little recipe is fun and can be served as a yummy breakfast OR lunch! Sausage and Biscuits on a stick!
True Aim Education has a super fun…and tasty might I add, tutorial with Cookies! Thank you!
Barb from A Life in Balance has a great recipe to teach our kids how to make Applesauce! You can do this any time of year..not just the Fall 
One ingredient friends…Frozen Bananas and it’s super deelish too! Another one of those super easy recipes to do with kids!
The Proverbial Homemaker has a super fun and very special Binder called “My First Kitchen Binder” For Boys AND Girls! Packed with over 130 pages of printable cooking tips, recipes, how to’s, pictures and more! A step by step guide in the kitchen with kids! PERFECT for teaching your kids to cook!! LOVE IT!
Such a cute idea and the kids will love doing it! Thank you to Jean from The Artful Parent for this fun and tasty activity!!
PBJ, what could make that more interesting? Peanut Butter and Jelly Sushi! Oh Christina at It is a Keeper is so creative!
This is a super easy Pie Crust Pop Tart..The kids love them and they are so easy for them to make too!
I just love how Pre K Pages uses Storybooks to teach and cook! These Strawberry Shortcakes paired with this darling Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!
Story book is the cutest!
Who doesn’t LOVE S’mores! Thank you Heather from Real The Kitchen and Beyond for this super easy but deelish Peanut Butter S’more recipe! YUM!
Teens will love these as well as the younins! Homemade Bagel Bites! Teach those teens to cook too! You don’t want to have to cook every little thing for them nor do you want them eating every little bag of chips you buy.
How about teaching kids to make something so simple yet so needed! Apartment Therapy teaches us how to make Butter!
Food Art is another fun way for teaching kids to cook! Show them pictures of fun ways to create pictures with their food! You can do sooo much with just the basics around your house! This is a great round up from Popsugar.
I love, love, love to make Homemade Pizza with kids! It’s really so easy and the kids just love it. I have been letting my kids make Pizza for their birthday parties for years as one of the activities we do. Even the boys like it!
This is a fun little activity to do with your kids, simply to teach them that you can be creative and do fun things with food! Again by the talented Jean at The Artful Parent
This is a special post that my friend from my friend Sheila at Brain Power Boy! Boys Learning how to cook in the kitchen ~ lots of fun easy recipes for kids learning to cook their too!
There are a ton of fun little cookbooks out there with lots of fun recipes…here are a couple you may enjoy:
I LOVE this cookbook! So much information for basic cooking instruction, like setting up your cooking area, sanitation basics…TONS of recipes!
Kids LOVE to have their very own cooking utensils! It creates even MORE interest in cooking as the utensils are their very own and not Moms!
More creative and fun Recipes and Ideas to make with kids:
Have a blessed day!
No-fire cooking can be great fun for kids. This Friendship Day, we give you some simple yet sumptuous snacks your child and her friends can make together.
These are great ideas! I am working on teaching our oldest. Would love to have your link up at Made for Kids link party https://wp.me/p5zJvs-1os
What fun recipes!! My kids love to help me in the kitchen so we will be putting these recipes to use. Thanks!
Love these recipes! My oldest is taking cooking class, so he has been helping me more to get bonus points. I am going to show him some of these to see if he wants to make some!
My son loves helping in the kitchen– We’ll give a few of these a try–thanks!
I love this list of ways to help your kids learn to help in the kitchen.
Thanks for including my applesauce recipe! Yes, I think it’s so important to teach kids how to cook from an early age. I think it’s much easier for them to learn healthy food habits if they’re comfortable in the kitchen.
Great ideas here. My daughter loves to help me cook and bake!
Loving those pancake pencils! I’m pinning this because I want to get my kiddos started in the kitchen at an early age.
What fun recipes you have shared here! I love this post and hope it encourages young ones to cook! Our daughter was cooking at 3 1/2 and has never stopped! 🙂 Of course there were some disasters but now she is old enough to clean them nicely! Thanks for sharing on the Art of Home-Making Mondays! 🙂