Kids Cooking Lessons for 3-6 year olds, assistant chef lessons 4

Assistant Chef
Kids Cooking Lessons Plans
3-6 years old
Lesson 4

For today’s Kids Cooking Lessons plans, please review Dinner Etiquette and Manners below. This is a lesson you can practice every night while sitting down as a family for dinner.

Dinner Etiquette and Manners

After reading and talking about etiquette and manners, allow your assistant chef to practice setting the table.

Talk about proper etiquette and manners while eating dinner. This is a lesson we often overlook in our children but it is important to learn nonetheless.

Make the discussion fun and enjoyable by getting them involved in acting with manners and acting without manners, or reward the best mannered person at the table.

Review Rules of Etiquette
and Dinner Manners

Wait for everyone to be seated before eating

Ask to pass food instead of grabbing or reaching across the table

Do not chew with mouth full

"May I please be excused", "please" and "thank you"

Carry own plate, utensils and cup after finished eating to sink

Learn proper dinner placement for setting table

Eat together, turn off television and talk about your day!

Eat with utensils not your hands (unless it is finger foods)

Setting the Table

Your Typical Dinner Setting

Fork to the left. The extra fork on the far left in this picture is the salad fork.

Plate center 1 inch from edge of table

Knife and spoon to the right

Knife should be closest to the plate with the blade facing toward plate

Napkin under fork or on top of plate

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Formal Dinner Setting

Not many people need to know how to line out a proper dinner setting, like the one on the left, but for our kids cooking lessons you can look it over for fun.

formal dinner setting

The plate should be placed 1 inch from the table edge.

A dinner fork is placed to the left of the plate.

If you had a salad fork, it would be to the left of the dinner fork because it is used first.

The knife is always on the right hand side of the plate with the blade facing the plate.

Spoon is to the right of the knife.

The little spoon beside it is for coffee –the spoon can also be placed on the coffee cup saucer.

The little plates above the dinner plate are for bread.

On to the next free online cooking lesson-Assistant Chef Lesson 5

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