Description: Lots of people bake with their kids without getting the idea from a blog, but this is a set up for tomorrow’s activity (see tip). Baking cookies is a great activity to do with children because there are so many learning opportunities. I like making sugar cookies, because you can use cookie cutters to cut out fun shapes, and then you can decorate them after. You can vary how involved your child is depending on their age, skill level (and your tolerance for mess)
Age: any
Purpose:
Following directions (from a book and an adult)
Measuring
Fractions
Fine motor: pouring, stirring, rolling, cutting, decorating
Prep time: moderate, lots of time required for clean up
What you’ll need: Ingredients to make sugar cookies (you can also buy a mix at the store), various cookie cutters, icing tubes, sprinkles
Fun Factor: The kids love baking cookies. The enjoy using the cookie cutters and decorating most. I usually only decorate what they can eat, and we save the rest of cookies to decorate each day until their gone. But I’m not going to lie, the adults require a lot of patients.
Tip: Take a picture of each stage of making the cookies (mixing, rolling, cutting, baking, decorating etc).
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