Kids Seasonal Cooking Activities

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Seasonal Cooking Activities provides opportunities to cook with your child throughout the year. Whether it is a holiday celebration or a seasonal activity, these are always memorable experiences for children. Whether it is an Easter brunch or birthday celebration, food usually plays some role in holidays and seasonal times. See the links below for our kid's seasonal activities to find ideas for cooking with kids the whole year through.

Cooking Throughout the Year

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Cooking in Autumn

Autumn is a time we think of kids going back to school, harvesting gardens and picking apples. It is a busy time of year and a start of new beginnings for most kids. It is also a great time to get kids involved in the kitchen and cooking.

School Lunches-Help with school lunches and snacks.

Apples- Try some of our kid's seasonal apple recipes and ideas to enjoy this apple season.

Garden Harvest-Even if you didn't plant a garden this year, you and your kids can still enjoy these garden harvest recipes.

Fruit and Nut Trees-Autumn brings many more things in season besides apples. Try some pear, fig, cranberrie or nut recipes.

Pumpkins- Visit your local pumpkin patch and try some of these pumpkin recipes with your kids.

Kids Halloween Recipes - Recipes and ideas for Halloween fun for kids.
Halloween Recipe Ideas

Thanksgiving-In America and Canada Autumn includes a celebration of harvest time with Thanksgiving. We have recipes and ideas to get kids involved in the Thanksgiving season.

Winter Cooking with Kids

The holidays bring plenty of seasonal cooking. It is the season of joy, giving and eating.

Christmas Candy Recipes-Chocolates, Peanut Brittle and more homemade candy recipes.

Learn How to Make Homemade Chocolates

Homemade Fudge Recipes- Recipes for Chocolate fudges, peanut butter fudge, vanilla fudge and more fun delicious easy fudge recipes.

Homemade Suckers-Whatever the season try creating your own homemade suckers.

Christmas Cookie Recipes-Cut out cookies, cookie decorating parties, fun Christmas cookie ideas and more.

Gingerbread House Recipes-Start a tradition with your kids of decorating a gingerbread house. We have a traditional recipe and a simple version.

Food Gift Ideas-Christmas food gifts, food basket ideas and jar mixes to share this holiday season.

Dough Ornament Recipes-Recipes for dough ornaments as well as cinnamon ornaments, spice ornaments and ideas for decorating.

Happy New Year-This is a holiday that kids don't often get involved in but we have some ideas to help you and your kids have some fun and still go to bed on time.

Cold Weather Recipes-What better way to celebrate the winter season than curling up in a warm house, cooking something warm and comforting after playing in the snow. Or, create some fun with our snowballs and snowflake recipes.

Valentine's Day-It is the season of love and most seasonal cooking is with chocolates and candy but we have even more ideas to get your Valentine's Day started off right.

Valentine Dessert Recipes- Create something sweet for your Valentine.

St. Patrick's Day-St Patrick's Day recipes include Irish recipes, green food and just fun recipes to celebrate St Patty's Day whether you're Irish or not.

Kids Cooking in Spring

April Fool's Day Recipes-Say April Fool's by surprising your family or friends with some foolish food fun.

Kids Easter Recipes--Celebrate this Easter season with recipes and ideas for bunnies, eggs, nests and Easter dinner.

Sugar Eggs Recipe-How to make sugar eggs and decorate them with your kids this Easter season.

Resurrection Cookies Recipe-A recipe and cooking activity to do with kids the night before Easter Sunday.

Russian Easter Bread Recipe- An Eastern European tradition.

Cinco de Mayo, May 5- In Mexico, this holiday celebrates the battle won over the French.

Mother's Day Recipes--Mother's day recipes and ideas for kids to cook on mom's special day.

Kids Summer Cooking

Summertime is a great time for cooking with your kids. During kid's break from school try starting our Kids Cooking Lessons or try one of these seasonal cooking ideas.

Father's Day Recipes-Cook up some recipes for a special father in your life.

Kid's Campfire Cooking Recipes-Outdoor cooking recipes for kids.

4th of July Recipes-Celebrate America's Independence Day with some kid friendly, patriotic recipes.

Ice Cream Recipes-Easy ice cream recipes with and without a machine.

Popsicle Recipes-Kids popsicle recipes.

Simple Smoothie Recipes-Easy to make, healthy smoothie recipes for kids.

Recipes for Summer Vegetables and Fruits

Picnic Ideas and Recipes-Kids picnic ideas and recipes.

Make Homemade Lemonade and have a lemonade stand. Bake cookies or other treats to go along with the drinks.

Birthdays

If you need ideas for a kid's birthday party consider having a kid's cooking party. Check out our Kids Cooking Party pages for ideas, menus, to do list and help with planning.

Seasonal Cooking with Fruits and Vegetables

With the change of seasons we cook differently and have different food available. The What's in Season page gives a brief overview of what vegetables and fruits are in season each month throughout the year. (This page will download in a PDF file.)

Helping your child understand where and how fruits and vegetables are grown can help peak their interest in eating healthy. Our Food Fact Sheets are very informative. They include facts for many fruits and vegetables such as how it grows, when they're available, what to look for when buying them, how to cook them, and a recipe as well.