Too cold to go and play outside? Keep your little chefs busy with the following entertaining activities.
Baking
Children love weighing and measuring and it teaches them valuable mathematical skills.
Try these recipes:
Stamped cookies recipe to keep them busy during school holidays
For the kids: Stamped cookies recipe to keep them busy during school holidays
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Icing biscuits
Bring out their inner artists with colour mixing (use small pastry brushes and a chopping board as a palette).
Try this butter icing recipe
Tidying
Organising the kitchen cupboard (we all have that untidy Tupperware cupboard) will help build organisational and spatial skills.
Making pizza
Kneading dough and grating cheese strengthen little muscles; cutting fun shapes out of veggie toppings is good for fine motor development.
Try these recipes:
Two-ingredient pizza dough is the shortcut to pizza paradise!
Experimenting
Melting butter, dissolving sugar and emulsifying mayonnaise are hands-on chemistry lessons.
https://www.foodandhome.co.za/recipes/dessert/easy-peanut-butter-cookies
Instant pap with lemon, butter & sugar
Keeping clean
A drag for adults, washing up is a perennial favourite with kids and teaches about chores and responsibility. Cut head- and armholes through rubbish bags to keep younger children dry.
Ps: Always supervise children in the kitchen, no matter how old they are.
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