What Are Easy Recipes That Your Child Can Make in the Kitchen?

When kids are growing up, they naturally want to stay around you and learn from the things that you are doing. If your child has grown to like the kitchen more, then you might be looking for ways that they can get involved and spend more time in there with you. However, you can’t expect your young child to pick up cleaning so easily. Instead, here are some easy recipes that, with supervision and someone to open the ingredients, your child can make all by himself so that he can be involved more in the kitchen. Plus, this will give your child an early cooking experience and a love for cooking at a young age that he will carry with him throughout his life.

Cereal

You can give your child access to a bunch of cereal options and toppings. This isn’t something that requires a lot of work, but it is something that will allow your child to experiment with different things in the kitchen to see what tastes good and what doesn’t taste good.

You can get your child a few different brands of cereal, a few different toppings, different milk types, and show them how to make sure the milk doesn’t spill when they are pouring it into the bowl. Leave the rest up to them and their creativity.

Build your own waffle

If you have a waffle maker, your young child can easily make a waffle with a little bit of supervision. And once the waffle is done, your child can decorate the waffle with any toppings that he wants. Let him decide if it is a good idea to put something on the waffle by telling him to cut it into smaller pieces just in case a topping he picks isn’t good.

If you don’t have a waffle maker, this is still an option that you can look at. A lot of frozen waffles can be toasted and microwaved. This is something that your child won’t even need help with. Just make sure that he isn’t pouring all of your chocolate syrup onto a single waffle. You also want to keep slight supervision on your child so that your white kitchen cabinets don’t get ruined in this waffle-building process.

A customizable sandwich

Your child can create any kind of sandwich that they want as long as they don’t have to use any sharp objects. You can let him create a ham and peanut butter sandwich, a normal ham and cheese sandwich, or even jelly and tuna. It is up to your child to go through the different options and ingredients and decide whether or not that is something that he wants on his lunch. Though it might seem like a waste to some people, this is the best way that kids learn what tastes good and what doesn’t. Let your child experiment with his lunch and maybe you might get a little bit more gratefulness at the dinner table.

Crackers and all the things you can put on them

If your child isn’t a big fan of bread, you can always give them the option to decorate crackers in any kind of topping. Cracker sandwiches are almost as good as normal ones, and kids seem to like these a lot better anyway. Let your child take a chocolate cookie and put it with ham. Let your child take a cracker and put peanut butter and cheese on it. Make sure you limit the number of ingredients you give to your child because I was not lying when I said that kids love to eat crackers with things. They will end up eating the whole box if they are left alone with it.

A tuna salad

It’s very simple to make tuna salad, and I promise it is an experience that your young child has never had the chance to have before. All you need to do is measure out the ingredients, and open up the tuna container so that your child doesn’t get hurt. From this point, tell your child to mix all the ingredients and see their reaction. Not only will they have made an actual meal that can be something that they eat for the rest of their lives, but it is new to them.