Cooking
Celebrate Mardi Gras: Bake a King Cake!
Teach your child measurement skills and some Mardi Gras history as you make this delectably delicious traditional treat known as King Cake.
Create Wholesome Snowflake Snacks!
Make lunch or afternoon snack more memorable with these Snow White snowflakes made of tortillas and cheese for your preschooler or pre-kindergartener.
Bruschetta
Create tasty and healthy bruschetta the whole family will love and get your child in the kitchen involved in making the food she eats!
Make Fresh Water with the Help of the Sun!
Teach your 5th grader valuable science skills and the importance of fresh water to our survival with this fun and informative activity!
Raspberry Hot Chocolate
Be culinary with ease this Valentine's Day - white chocolate and raspberries combine for a unique hot cocoa treat!
Sorbet Cups
Help your second grader embrace his "green" side by recycling empty citrus peels into fruity ice cream bowls!
Make Marbled Christmas Balls
Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!
Candied Rose Petals
Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.
Cook Irish Potato Soup
Watch your fifth grader hone his basic kitchen and measuring skills as he helps you whip up a batch of this soothing, savory soup.
Stuffed French Toast Recipe
Your child can treat the family to breakfast in bed this Valentine's Day by making strawberry and chocolate French toast with this decadent recipe.
Tortilla Lasagna Recipe
Put a flavorful twist on a classic dish, and make tortilla lasagna! All your favorite ingredients from traditional Mexican food will go into this creation.
Create a Bread Sculpture
Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!
Match That! A Spatial Observation Game
Help your middle schooler improve his observation skills by playing this simple observation and spatial memorization game.
Chicken Strips Recipe
Get your kids in the kitchen this Fourth of July and celebrate the holiday with some delicious and nutritious kid-friendly recipes!
Make Kid-Friendly Mulled Spice Wine
Your child will impress all of your holiday guests with this simple recipe for non-alcoholic mulled spice wine. It's warm, festive, fun, and very sophisticated.
Make Chocolate Dipped Candy Canes
Show your fifth grader how to make elegant (and delicious!) chocolate covered candy canes this holiday season.
Reindeer Droppings
Made to humorously resemble reindeer droppings, these simple to make and yummy to eat holiday desserts are destined to become a family favorite.
Trim the Tree with "Glass" Candy Ornaments
Your preschool or pre-kindergarten child can turn hard candy into colorful faux glass ornaments with this holiday arts and crafts activity.
Create a Gumdrop Topiary
Here's a fun math-oriented arts and crafts activity for your preschool or kindergarten child: create a gumdrop topiary and practice counting along the way.
Snow Globe Cookies
These 3D snow globe cookies look amazing on any table and will gets kids excited about the upcoming holiday season!
Popcorn Snowman
Not all snowmen are made of ice. This popcorn snowman tastes like the holiday season and also makes a cute decoration on any dining table.
Homemade Pumpkin Pasta
Teach your child how easy it is to make homemade pasta, infused with delicious and nutritious autumn pumpkins.
Bake Fall Leaf Cookies
Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!
Sweet Potato Gnocchi
Your child can create gnocchi with a twist by using sweet potatoes, and then rolling them into a healthy main dish!
Domino Cookies
Bake domino cookies and spark your child's interest in traditional games. This baking activity is great for 5th-6th grade children.
Speak up for the Earth
In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.
Avocado Sushi
Does your child love sushi? How about creating something a little different with these avocado sushi bites that have a little cucumber too!
Apple Cider Cupcakes
Surprise your child by taking the apple cider from the fridge and transforming it into a wonderful treat!
Draft a Family Constitution
What are the rules of your home? Help your fifth grader draft a Family Constitution and even give it an aged look using soaked tea bags.
Homemade Frozen Yogurt
Your child can learn about the process of making frozen yogurt and enjoy a homemade, flavorful dessert. Experiment with this fun summer food!
Make a Hummingbird Feeder
With a clear bottle and a few plastic straws, you can easily make a hummingbird feeder and demonstrate the effects of atmospheric pressure at the same time!
Make Ice Cream in a Baggie!
Based on the concept of water's "freezing point," this activity entails the lowering of water's freezing point to chill ice cream!
Shrimp and Asparagus
Full of flavor and color, this versatile dish can be made as spicy or as mild as you like.
Bake a Batch of Fractions!
With this activity, you'll be practicing adding and subtracting fractions, but the activity can be modified to refresh multiplication, division, and more.
Yogurt Muffins
Your child can transform plain yogurt into a healthy and tasty treat the whole family will love! She'll learn more about baking as well as how yogurt is made.
Celebrate the Olympics
Using store bought cookie dough, these Olympic-themed treats are so quick and easy that even little hands can be a big help!
Bake Aggression Cookies: Playdough Cookies Kids Can Pound!
It can feel good to hit something when you're mad. The more your child pounds, squeezes, and mashes this dough, the better these play dough cookies will taste!
Make Mashed Potato Soup
With just a handful of ingredients and some leftover mashed potatoes from dinner the night before, your child can make this simple and healthy soup.
Homemade Crackers
Your child can make something to share with her friends that isn't super sweet with these cheesy heart crackers.
Make Baking Soda Toothpaste
Make environmentally friendly, chemical-free toothpaste using one of the most common, inexpensive pantry staples in the American kitchen: baking soda.
Make Chocolate Dipped Spoons!
Whether you're looking for a great gift your child can make or a fun project your child can enjoy making and eating, these spoons are an easy solution.
Make Your Own Marshmallows
Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!
Herb Popcorn!
Make flavored popcorn with your kids and explore the tastes of herbs. They'll learn more about their palate as well as how to make perfectly popped popcorn!
Bake Your Own Fortune Cookies
Give your child international cooking experience, as he makes his own, personalized fortune cookies.
Frozen Chocolate-Covered Bananas
Replace the butterfat and sugar of ice cream with the sublime sweetness of a frozen chocolate-covered banana.
Mint Tea Recipe
Wondering what to do with all that extra mint leftover from last night's meal? Don't throw it out--make tea instead. It's easy to dry fresh herbs for tea.
Make Your Own Barbecue Sauce
This sweet and tangy homemade barbecue sauce is a great way to introduce kids to the culinary arts.
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