“Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking, It’s about harassing imagination, Empowerment and Creativity” Guy Fiery
The Benefits of Cooking With Pre-Schoolers:
Social-Emotional Development:
Hands on Cooking activities help children develop confidence and skill. Following recipes encourages children to be self-directed and independent, it also teaches them to follow directions and develop problem solving skills.
Physical Development:
Fine motor and eye-hand coordination skills are developing by chopping, mixing, squeezing and spreading.
Cognitive Development:
Cooking encourages children’s thinking, problem solving, and creativity. It also allows children the opportunity to use the knowledge they have and apply it by counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions, and cause and effect.
Language Development:
Cooking offers the opportunity to develop language development by linking it to all other areas, including Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Arts, and Literacy. This is done by encouraging children to talk about what they are doing, counting, and watching materials change color and texture.
