By Tony A Ellis
Keeping kids happy and not pulling apart the house is always really hard. When they are bored at home on school holidays, it is even harder.
I always remember licking the beating sticks when Mom cooked cakes. It was one of the best times in my childhood. Buying cup cake mix is very cheap and easy. All you normally needs are eggs, butter and water.
Cooking with kids can be fun, but will always is very messy. Every Wednesday we have cake day with my 2 and 3 year old children. They look forward to it every week. Every time they see an egg now they say, "cake?" It is one of my favourite times in the week as well. Three weeks ago, we bought a new cup cake tray, that was in the shape of trains. The first cup cakes were great and the kids ate all of them in record speed.
Tips for cake making with kids:
Be ready for a big mess.
Have the kids on the another side of the bench and chairs so they can help.
Clean at every stage and sent kids to play when you are cleaning up.
Let the kids lick the mixing sticks and bowl.
Don't charge clothes or clean the floor until they have finished.
It does have to be perfect it is for the kids not a cake baking challenge, let them do as much as they can
Health options Last week we tried something different. We made Risotto trains. Cooked the rice added flavour (onion, beef stock or other stock) three eggs and cheese. Put the mix in the train cup cake and cooked then ready. Kids had rice trains for lunch and ate everything!!! My 3 year old would not eat rice before we made them into a train. Now he has tried it he will eat rice and it has opened up more menu items.
Tips for healthy food:
If they make it, they will eat it no strong colours e.g rice with red capsicum etc. Kids will start saying that they don't like it.
If it has eggs, get them to break into a separate bowl. It will make a mess and you will have to get egg shells out.
Know it will take 3 times as long and 10 times as messy but they eat it!
This will work well for other foods.
Most times it doesn't even have to look like a train as long as they know it has come from that cup cake tray they will eat it.
Keeping kids happy and not pulling apart the house is always really hard. When they are bored at home on school holidays, it is even harder.
I always remember licking the beating sticks when Mom cooked cakes. It was one of the best times in my childhood. Buying cup cake mix is very cheap and easy. All you normally needs are eggs, butter and water.
Cooking with kids can be fun, but will always is very messy. Every Wednesday we have cake day with my 2 and 3 year old children. They look forward to it every week. Every time they see an egg now they say, "cake?" It is one of my favourite times in the week as well. Three weeks ago, we bought a new cup cake tray, that was in the shape of trains. The first cup cakes were great and the kids ate all of them in record speed.
Tips for cake making with kids:
Be ready for a big mess.
Have the kids on the another side of the bench and chairs so they can help.
Clean at every stage and sent kids to play when you are cleaning up.
Let the kids lick the mixing sticks and bowl.
Don't charge clothes or clean the floor until they have finished.
It does have to be perfect it is for the kids not a cake baking challenge, let them do as much as they can
Health options Last week we tried something different. We made Risotto trains. Cooked the rice added flavour (onion, beef stock or other stock) three eggs and cheese. Put the mix in the train cup cake and cooked then ready. Kids had rice trains for lunch and ate everything!!! My 3 year old would not eat rice before we made them into a train. Now he has tried it he will eat rice and it has opened up more menu items.
Tips for healthy food:
If they make it, they will eat it no strong colours e.g rice with red capsicum etc. Kids will start saying that they don't like it.
If it has eggs, get them to break into a separate bowl. It will make a mess and you will have to get egg shells out.
Know it will take 3 times as long and 10 times as messy but they eat it!
This will work well for other foods.
Most times it doesn't even have to look like a train as long as they know it has come from that cup cake tray they will eat it.
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