Cooking with your children can serve a variety of useful and enjoyable functions. By making a meal with your kids, you can (hopefully) ensure that they will be creating a meal they will actually eat, and enjoy eating, at that! Also, sharing your time in the kitchen with your children can be a great family bonding experience, bringing your family together during an activity that is usually done solo. Finally, cooking is a great way for your children to exercise their curiosity, creativity, and innovation in exciting ways.

Here are some fun “kid-friendly” cooking projects that you can enjoy with your whole family!

Pizza Workshop

A great activity that can be lots of fun is to set up a pizza making workshop. You can make miniature, personalized pizzas that each person can top with whatever they want!

For the crust, you can either buy pre-made personal sized pizza dough or you can use bagel halves for even greater ease. Set up a table with a bowl of pizza sauce, and a number of smaller bowls all filled with various toppings-pepperoni, peppers, onions, olives, ham, sausage, pineapple, and of course, cheese.

Let the kids put their own sauce, cheese and toppings on their pizza, and then you can pop them into the oven for a quick bit to melt all the cheese. When it’s finished, you’ll have a great meal that everyone helped make!

Build the Biggest Sandwich!

Similar to making a pizza workshop, you can make a giant sandwich with your kids. To do this, buy several baguettes of French bread, cut the ends off, and line up the baguettes next to one another so that it looks like one long sandwich.

Once your bread is laid out, your family can begin topping the sandwich with all the meat, cheese, toppings and dressings that you want. You can designate different themes for different sections of the sandwich, let each person create their own part of the sandwich, or just go crazy and throw everything on. Your creative options are limitless!

Cookie Decorating Station

Especially around the holidays, or for birthday / holiday parties, cookie decorating stations can be a great idea. Roll out some sugar cookie dough on a countertop or table and give the kids a lot of cookie-cutters to choose from. Another fun option is to give them kid-safe knives and let them cut out their own designs.

Once the cookies are baked, you can let them decorate the cookies with various colors / flavors of frosting, candy, sprinkles, or any other toppings you can think of!

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Joseph Devine

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