Cooking with children

michelefauk

Hi, I too am a TA who is cooking every week with a child with SEN, who absolutely loves it and it's far more useful as a life skill than her sitting learning about subordinate clauses, inference and adverbs!

Anyway, so far we have made cheese straws, chocolate crispy cakes, pizza, cookies, pasta salad, malteser cake, scones. The plan for next term includes fruit salad, flapjacks, sandwiches and soup. I just search for simple recipes that I know we can make in our time slot of an hour, also something that can easily be transported home with her and that she will like. I buy the ingredients and bring all the equipment in and off we go. Good luck!

claireyrosey

My favourite cooking lesson was when I was 6 or 7. our teacher was brilliant, she was a bit of a hippy type. We made stone soup. She read us the story 'stone soup' it's an old folk story about sharing. Then we made the soup, It's just veg soup, cooked with a stone in the pan. We all prepared different veg, I think I chopped up some tinned toms. It tasted amazing, even to a picky eater like me. We all loved it and my friends would still talk about it, even at high school, years later.

f0nz

These are so easy to make and you can add loads of different things so the Kids can personalise them

http://www.ambitiouskitchen.com/2013/09/2-ingredient-healthy-banana-bread-breakfast-cookies-with-delicious-add-ins/

f0nz

This is also a good site with healthy snack recipes

http://amyshealthybaking.com/blog/2015/02/17/caramel-filled-pretzel-bites/