Toddler cooking

hgbels

Help – Ideas please

As I have just cut my working hours to 2 days a week, I am looking for cookery activates to do with my two toddlers.

DS is 2.5 and very careful and loves to cook
DD is 1 – and wants to join in

We cook lots of cakes and sometimes try a pizza.

Does anyone have any ideas of things I can make that are not sweet (I seem to end up with a full cake and biscuit tin); that they can help with, but that all the individual ingredients are safe to eat (DD 1 will eat flour paint and glue!!!!)

Many thanks

Hels

f1owers

Hi, you could chop up fruit and vegetables into assorted shapes and they can make pictures with them. Does not matter if they eat it then

Gluing with pasta shapes seemed to go down well with mine too - raw or cooked.

HTH

Flower

recovering_spendaholic

I used to make tuna pasta with mine. I would boil and drain the pasta and they would mix in the salad cream, tuna and chopped cucumber. They still love this to this day! You could also do sardines on toast - mashed sardines mixed up with tomato ketchup spread on buttered toast - I have to say that DD1 would never eat it but DD2 loves it.

thriftlady_2

Chocolate spread sandwiches - they will love it :rotfl: just stand back and watch your entire kitchen get covered:D Sorry that's probably not what you're after. What about making kebabs using drinking straws ? Cut up cheese cubes, pieces of cooked meat/sausages/fish fingers, cherry toms, fruit pieces, and thread them on the straws

hgbels

Thanks guys - great ideas

I like the tuna pasta idea (I only ever make it with hot cheese sauce), and the sardines on toast.

DS especially wants to help cook every meal.

Thriftladay the idea of using staws is great - I was thinking of kebabs but struggling to think of a safe way

Hels

thriftlady_2

hgbels wrote:

Thriftladay the idea of using staws is great - I was thinking of kebabs but struggling to think of a safe way

Hels

Not my idea I'm afraid - Annabel Karmel

ariba10

There are quite a few childrens cook books about.

We had a good one from Asda called ''Kids Cooking'' £4.96. But there are other cheaper books about.