Guy Fieri
Shall We Cook?
“Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment and creativity.
Teaching children to cook is a fun, practical way to:
- Build confidence and self esteem by giving your child the ability to make something that looks and tastes great
- Encourage imagination as they start to think about how this could be made to look better, or how it could be decorated differently
- Develop skills such as learning not only to follow instructions, but to do so in a particular order (always handy in recipes!)
- Learn how to weigh and measure ingredients
- Develop the art of patience
- Develop fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination
- Build an interest and a skill that will last a lifetime. It might even become a career!
Cooking can also be a great family activity.
In an age where everybody is so busy with work and after school activities, putting aside a couple of hours on a lazy Sunday afternoon can be just the togetherness time you all need to just "be" and catch up on the happenings of the past week.
