Teaching our little ones about cooking.

I loved cooking with my grandparents and my great grandparents when I was younger it’s one of the few skills I’ve been able to bring to adulthood with me. As Elijahs grown older he’s enjoyed gaining more responsibility and learning about how food is prepared. He loves baking cakes but outside of just pushing a spoon around we’ve started doing a lot more.

I want my son to leave home and know how to take care of himself and his future family. Not to expect others to teach them. I’ve taught my husband how to cook now I am slowly teaching our son.

Start with little tasks. Obviously no sharp knifes and heat should be involved in their cooking. So here’s some small tasks I give my little man to help with cooking. He is two and a half!

First of all you can ask your child to pass you items. Elijah loves doing this. He really thinks he is helping. We also pass each other blunt knifes and forks.

He helps butter them bread. I’ll be it is a little holey but he enjoys using the blunt knife and helping. He likes spreading jam and spreading tomato purée on a wrap or pizza base to make pizzas.

Get them to chop with a blunt knife. Elijah likes chopping cheese, bread, sandwiches anything soft.

Help them pour food that is measures into a bowl and get them to help measure out food too.

Help mix cake mixes, salad, anything cold.

Get them to help pour drinks and cereal.

Get them to help place food on a plate ready for dinner and assemble their own packed lunches.

Help set the table. Your child can take their plate and cutlery to the table and then their drink.

As Elijah gets older he will have more responsibilities in the kitchen but for now he’s happy with his little step and his helping hands!

It’s also a great way to teach food hygiene from a young age too!

Thanks for reading! Charlie x