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Fun Activity Friday - Baking Cookies!

Teaching kids the ropes in the kitchen!

Baking Cookies

Your favorite cookie recipes and ingredients!

Cooking with kids can be fun, educational, and challenging! So start off with something easy! 

I got all the ingredients and tools and laid them out first so she could see them. Then she helped me measure and pour and stir. While I assisted her, I let her do a lot of it herself. It's not like we were baking for a bake sale! It was just us and it was a way to start teaching her the ropes in the kitchen! 

While my son is still too young to help out, he did putter around the kitchen watching us and I gave him a little bowl of flour and some spoons and he had a blast!

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