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Kids Cooking Lessons
3-6 years old
Lesson 4

Dinner Etiquette and Manners


 
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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.

practing setting the table

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

    dinner setting for non formal 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

    formal dinner settingNot 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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