I love to cook and know how important it is to teach my kids how to cook. Since we are all spending a lot more time at home and with our kids during the COVID-19 virus, I decided to make good use of the time and work on life skills.

Kids are never too young to learn household chores and skills. Younger kids need a lot more help in the beginning, but as they shadow you, they’ll be able to do more and more on their own. I like to look at it like an apprentice/mentor model. It helps me realize that sometimes I have expectations for my kids to just know how to do things, when in reality, I haven’t taught them yet!

So during this at-home time, I’m going to teach them.

We’re starting with COOKING. The skills we’re practicing are:

• Knife skills
• Microwave
• Eggs
• Pasta
• Following a recipe

I created videos for each skill that I shared on Instagram and I’m reposting them here as well.

Knife Skills

Microwave

Eggs

Pasta

Following a Recipe

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Download the PDF printable

I created a printable PDF that has a summary for the week, each of the things we covered, and the recipe we made on the last day. Download that PDF at the link below:

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What We Used for Cooking Week

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