Kids Can Learn To Cook Young: Little Helpers for your Stoves in Hastings

Cooking can be a great way to support subjects being taught at school or familiarize new ones. Here are just a few of the skills cooking can help teach your children:

• Simple math skills – Many recipes can be doubled or halved, which will need maths skills such
  
  as multiplying and dividing.

•  Nutrition – Use your time together in the kitchen to teach your children the importance of decent nutrition. Encourage them to try new fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods.

• Following directions – Recipes need to be put together in a explicit order. This can help show your children the prominence of following directions, whether they are baking a cake or doing a science experiment.

•  Measuring – Using measuring cups to get the suitable amounts of ingredients teaches about the importance of vigilant and accurate measuring.

•  Sensory awareness – Cooking and baking can expose your child to new textures, tastes, colours, odours and more.

• Language skills – Reading food labels and recipes can help your children recover their reading skills and learn the meanings of ignorant words.

•  Art – From making a face out of vegetables on a pizza to decorating cookies with sprinkles and icing, cooking provides boundless opportunities for artistic expression!

• Cultural awareness –Are your children fascinated by the exotic flavours, colours, and aromas found in many ethnic dishes? Announcing your children to ethnic dishes may encourage them to learn more about the culture and people that motivated the dish.

What About The Mess With Your Stoves In Hastings?

Even if your child hasn't yet got enough hand-eye coordination to spread icing on little buns, he or she will happily spend a sticky few minutes popping (far too many) sweets on top. Don't forget that wiping the table afterwards with a damp sponge counts as cooking, too!

From the age of about three, you can show your child how to crush biscuits in a bag (for a cheesecake base or treats like Malteser Crunch), how to sieve flour and icing sugar, and how to "rub" butter and flour together to make crumble topping.

Progressively, as your child advances more control of their fingers and hands with your Sussex Stoves, you can host more fiddly things, like breaking eggs, grating cheese or measuring out spoonfuls of herbs and spices.

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