Why Teach Kids Cooking Activities?

10 reasons why you should do cooking activities with your children.

1. Learning to cook helps kids to learn about nutrition and healthy eating. They are growing up with fast food and junk food at their fingertips, which is part of the reason why child obesity is on the rise! Teaching kids to cook will help instill skills to last them a lifetime.
2. Boost their self esteem. If your child needs a boost of self confidence, (and who doesn't!) cooking in the kitchen will do just that. They are accomplishing a task, learning something important and contributing to the family.
3. Create family time and bonding. Take time to cook with your kids and they will have memories that they, in turn, can pass on to their families. It may take a longer time to get the meal or snack done but the moments with your children will be priceless. (Just remember to have patience. Don't worry about flour on the floor or spilled milk).
4. Kids will be more apt to eat what they make. Perhaps, it is the enthusiasm of creating something themselves, but they will be more likely to eat whatever they had a hand in making.
5. Kids learn real lessons in science, language, math and creativity. Cooking will help reinforce all these subjects! Visit What do Kids Learn While Cooking page for more information.
6. What a great way to learn life skills. This can be especially helpful when kids are on their own and won't have to rely on fast food and junk food to sustain them.
   
   
7. They can help contribute to the family and they can feel the importance of helping.
8. They are working together as a team, whether it is with a parent or with a sibling to get the job done.
9. Cooking teaches them planning and making choices.
10. Practice creativity and imagination. Kids cooking activities are a great way to express themselves and enjoy their creations.

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We feel that teaching children through cooking activities may help children to know what ingredient that contains in the recipes. Based on our opinion, we feel that it is important to teach children on cooking activities because the child/children need to know what food they should take more (vegetables, fruits) and what food should take less (meat, sugar, oily food). For example: while the child wants to make a cake and he/she will know need to put less sugar in order to reduce the risk of getting diabetics. Besides, we also feel that teaching through cooking activities may also help the child/children to build up their confidence. This is because that he/she may know that he/she is putting the correct ingredient into the recipes when making choices. They will also learn to read when referring to the recipe. Children will slowly gain the everyday learning experiences by themselves like pouring, scooping, transferring, and others. Moreover, this may also help the child/children to grow up in a healthy lifestyle when they prepare their healthy meals together with their parents.

We strongly agree to have the little ones to prepare their meals together with their parents. These also encourage the little ones to eat the food that prepare by themselves. They will learn to be independence as well. It is very important for all the parents to always tell the little ones not to play with the equipments and materials in the kitchen because it might cause injuries to the little ones for example, play with fire, knife and electricity. Explaining and showing to the children what they can and cannot use is very important. So, when parents having cooking activities with their little ones must very careful with this.