If you’re looking for a fun activity to do with your kids over the school holidays, but you want to stay in to avoid crowds, stay in and bake cookies with them with these cookie recipes.
On top of having fun, this helps kids with hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and can boost reading skills when you go through the recipes and also strengthens their hands when they do things like squeeze icing bags. Baking also helps small children to do math and plan, too. Also, following your verbal instructions can help your child’s listening and sequencing skills.
Small kids can help to stir ingredients, knead dough and scoop batter into baking pans. Tweens, on the other hand, pick up practical life skills. You can allow let them make decisions like how much chocolate chips to add. With that, here are some cookie recipes you can make with your kids. Happy baking!