Here are our 5 suggestions of recipes for you to make at home with the kids.

Kids will also be more inclined to eat what they have helped to prepare. 

Cooking together will help them improve their cooking skills and teach them about eating healthy and balanced diet, nutrition and calories. 

Getting kids to help you cook is also a great way to teach them English, maths and science. They will have to understand the recipe and follow cooking instructions.

Preparing the ingredients will boost children’s confidence with numbers and following recipe will help with other concepts such as weights, ratios, measurements, temperature and time - all important life skills everybody needs to know. 

Our 5 recipe suggestions:

Fruit kebabs –before you start threading pieces of fruit onto a skewer you can show the children what different fruit look like and discuss how they’re grown and why they’re good for us. It is also a perfect opportunity to discuss the definition of fruit and the difference between fruit and vegetables. 

Fruits and vegetables are classified based on what part of the plant they come from.

Fruits:        

• come from the flower   

• all other edible parts

Vegetables:

• contain seeds        

• roots, stem, leaves

Rocky Road – delicious and fun to make and will teach the kids science about melting butter and chocolate and then leaving it to set with additional ingredients before it's ready to eat. 

Pancakes - a basic pancake recipe uses a golden ratio of ingredients – for every 100g of flour, you need 2 eggs and 300ml of milk. This makes this recipe ideal for helping to teach kids how ratio works. Explain that if the flour and milk are a 1:3 ratio, what is the ratio of flour to eggs (1:2)?

Jelly – making jelly can help kids to learn about solids and liquids. When you start off the jelly is a solid but it’s very concentrated and then it’s diluted and made into a liquid state by adding boiling water and then it can be poured into any mould or shape and left to set. Next, it becomes solid again. You can make jelly to eat or for sensory play which young kids also really enjoy playing with. 

Cookies - Kids don’t all love learning about fractions and division, but most of them enjoy eating biscuits. And therefore making cooking can be a great way to help them with that. For example, if you have a recipe that makes 24 cookies and once the biscuits are made you can teach the kids to add and subtract fractions and make fractions smaller. So if I have 4 biscuits (4/24) and you have 4 biscuits, how many of the biscuits do we both have (8/24) and is there a way of making that fraction smaller (1/3).

I hope you enjoyed this article, will try out some of the above recipes at home with the kids. You can also check out some of our other articles and subscribe for more great content.