Assistant Chef Kids
Cooking Lessons 3-6 years old Lesson 4
Dinner
Etiquette and Manners
Kids Cooking Activities Ebooks
For
today’s Kids Cooking Lessons please review Dinner Etiquette and Manners
below...
After reading and talking about it allow
your assistant chef to practice
setting the table. Talk about proper etiquette and manners while
eating dinner. Etiquette and manners 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,
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
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.
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.
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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.
