Kids often don’t realise how much they are learning while they are cooking because they are having so much fun, but the benefits are numerous:

Life Skills

• Ability to cook nutritious meals
• Understanding of food and kitchen hygiene
• Budgeting

Health

• Importance of balanced diet
• Understanding different diets – coeliacs, vegetarians
• Understanding of nutritional value of foods
• How to prepare healthy and tasty dishes from fresh ingredients

Maths

• Counting
• Fractions
• Sequencing- what comes 1st, 2nd, 3rd
• Weighing
• Measuring
• Shapes
• Problem solving-what happens if something goes wrong

Reading

• Improving their reading skills
• Vocabulary through new words

Science

• Discovering food groups
• Making predictions
• Experimenting
• How food grows
• How food changes while cooking
• Five senses
• Sensory exploration-with hands on and feeling the ingredients while cooking

Geography

• Multicultural recipes
• Countries foods originate

• Funny foods class

Art

• Creativity-make their own unique recipes
• Cake decoration

Social Skills

• Responsibility
• Healthy and safety
• Food hygiene
• Team work
• Building self esteem
• Share learning with friends and family

Fine motor skills

Chopping, whisking, kneading, pouring, mixing, folding, filleting, boning