Let’s talk about the educational benefits of cooking with kids!

Cooking as a reading tool:

• Have your children read the steps and ingredients to you.
• Cooking helps your children follow and understand an order of events within a story or recipe.
• In our Handstand Kids Cookbook Kits, kids can learn to read and speak in a different language.

Cooking as a science tool:

• Teach your children the difference between raw versus cooked ingredients.
• Treat cooking as a science experiment and ask your children to make predictions, or a hypothesis, make observations and find results.
• Discuss where the ingredients you use actually came from.  For example, when using vegetables, ask your children how they grow, in what environment, and in what location.

Cooking as a math tool:

• Cooking is all about measuring and counting ingredients!
• Make sure your children are counting ingredients as they use or collect them.
• Teach or practice measurements (cups, quarts, etc.) with your children

For more information, visit the Scholastic Parents website!

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