I received the neatest most fun thing to do with my kids the other day from Playful Chef.
Playful Chef Kids Cooking Kits
This comes with:
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- 5 delicious, easy-to-follow laminated recipe cards that follow a ten-system plan complete with helpful illustrations and color-coding
- An overview of how to teach your child in the kitchen
- Child sized cooking tools: whisk, spoon, spatula, pastry brush, mixing bowl, timer, baking pan, and safety scissors. Tools are all dishwasher safe.
- A cool, brushed denim tool belt apron for easy tool storage and handy access that is adjustable for all sizes
- A set of color-coded measuring spoons
- A set of color-coded measuring cups
- A kid-sized baking pan for baking special treats
- A kid-sized mixing bowl for mixing magic
Here’s some fun information from the Playful Chef website before we get started making sugar cookies:
You want your kids to appreciate good food and form healthy, life-long eating habits. Your kids want to play with their favorite grown-ups. Playful Chef encourages children, and the adults who love them, to roll up their sleeves and engage in fun cooking adventures together.
What can a 3-year-old do in a kitchen? A lot. Playful Life has designed Playful Chef Kits for 3-12 year-olds to help you tap into your kids’ eagerness to help and to learn from an early age. We’ll outfit you with the nutritional know-how, tools of the trade, and fun food facts you’ll need to get your little one cooking!
My kids have been begging to bust it open and play with it. I’ve been waiting for a calm moment when everybody is doing what they are supposed to do and nobody is fighting.
I decided tonight was the night. I put hamburger on the stove to cook for tacos and got all of the ingredients out to make the sugar cookies that came in the recipe book with the kit.
Too much fun! First, the recipe is really really simple. I had everything in my cupboards for them to use.
Somehow Kat got voted to wear the apron. It was a process of elimination with her and Jordan, he’s too big to wear it. I told Alyce she could wear it next time. See how proud Kat is in her apron with all the tools stashed in her pockets?
Katiana measuring out the sugar
Alyce pouring in the vegetable oil.
Katiana wisking away!
Jordan cracked the eggs, but he moved to fast, I was taking a picture of Katiana pouring in the sugar while he did it. So here he is stirring in the flour. (Which was supposed to be added slowly, but when you have a 3 year old adding the flour, slow is a relative term. I do it mommy! Shaking my hand off of her as she pours all the flour all over.)
Child’s never stirred a double batch of chocolate chip cookies obviously.
We were going to roll it out and cut it with the cookie cutters, but (and this might have been the key to stirring the flour in slowly, Alyce) the dough was so crumbly when I tried rolling it out that I gave up and we made them into balls. Not that big ball above. Though that would make one heck of a sugar cookie!
Alyce rolling hers into a ball.
The cookie dough ready to go into the oven. (The pampered chef rolling pin is not included in the set, that’s mommy’s favorite cooking tool!)
Our finished cookies. And they were good!
The only thing I would change is that I would pour the flour in myself so that we might actually be able to roll out the cookies into the fun shapes. I was also hurrying them because supper was done at the same time that the cookies were ready to go into the oven.
That was fun! The kids loved having their size of tools to work with and Katiana and Alyce LOVE the apron!
They also have the Playful Cooking Set For Older Kids which would be great for Jordan and Kat probably since she’ll be 6 in April, but Alyce wants to play too and this is perfect for her, plus the other kids are able to use it easily.
I love the fact that these are color coded. We’re working with Alyce on her colors and that was really neat to be able to say, we need one full cup with the blue dot. Kat knows her numbers and she was slightly insulted when I told her one of the orange dot. Mom, I know what the number looks like. Work with me and teach Alyce her colors, thank you very much!
I want to check out the Playful Chef French Cooking Set. That looks so neat! I’ll admit it, I want it all. I love to cook with my kids. I just hate cleaning up the mess.
You know what was the most awesome thing about this was? My kids were working together and I didn’t hear one cross word, not one mean name, just them talking to each other. They were saying what part each one of them wanted to do, what they wanted to put on the cookies, how many they were going to eat when they were done. That to me, was the perfect way to spend an evening.
For that alone, the Playful Chef Kids Cooking Kits get a
Thank you so much to Playful Life for the Playful Chef Kids Cooking Kit!
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