What Children Can Learn From Cooking
Cooking is not only a fun activity for children, but helps children develop school readiness skills.
Math: Following recipes teaches counting, measuring, sequencing, sorting and fractions. Working with food teaches shapes and colors.
Science: Cooking provides opportunities to learn about food groups and how food grows, observe how food changes while cooking and use the five senses.
Creative art: Creating and decorating foods can be a creative process.
Nutrition/Health: Proper food handling teaches food safety and hand washing. Cooking can be used to introduce nutrition concepts, healthy cooking methods and healthy ingredient use.
Social skills: Cooking together uncovers the importance of being responsible, working together, sharing, completing a task and feeling confident.
Physical development: Preparing food develops fine motor skills through cracking eggs, chopping, stirring, pouring and cutting.