Cooking class for kids (DETAILS)

I wrote a few days ago how I will be teaching a cooking class for kids this summer. I want to share with you the details of the six week course for kids and their parents.

The Art of Cooking

Teaching a child to cook, love food and have personal responsibility in the kitchen is one of the best gifts we can give to our future generation. My six week course is dedicated to the art of cooking and the love of food.

Studies show that children who learn to cook have a lower obesity rate as well as excel in math and science. However, that is just the beginning. Cooking with our children and sitting down to the dinner table bonds the family unit and gives way to more open and honest conversation. As well as the reward of having your children try new and interesting cuisine because they help prepare it.

Yet, the best reward of all will be the day that you as the parent get to come home from work or a long day to a meal that your child skillfully prepared for you!

The course will be offered from June 14- July 22 

One day a week for six weeks. Each week will explore proper food prep, safe knife skills, food in nature, making our own breads and sodas, with a field trip to the famer’s market. Each student gets their own food journal and measuring spoons.

Week One: Proper food prep, sanitation and knife skills. Teaching our children the fundamentals of kitchen work and safe food preparation.

Week Two: Color Theory. Most children would never identify brown as their favorite color, but yet that is the color of the majority of food we are feeding our kids these days. We will explore colors in foods and come up with recipes based on color.

Week Three: Handmade bread and pastas. Learning how to follow a recipe and proper measurements in order to have a finished product.

Week Four: Making our own sodas and drinks with colors found in nature, not a chemical source.

Week Five: Lunches and snacks made from scratch. We will learn how to plan out our lunches for the week and how to make our own delicious snacks.

Week Six: Budget, plan and grocery list your week. The kids will have made a list of groceries to find at our local farmer’s market, as well as a budget and dinner plan. We will take our lists and bags to the famer’s market and pick out our produce. Come back to the kitchen and prepare our big family dinner. All parents and friends welcome to the dinner that the kids prepare.

Classes are available as follows:

Mondays from 12-2PM

Wednesdays from 10AM-12PM

Fridays from 12-2PM

Full tuition is $150.00 plus $25 supply fee OR you can pay by the class and take as many of as few as you like. $35/class with same supply fee applying. 

Limited to three kids per class ages 5-12 years old.

If you are interested in attending this fun and interactive cooking class, please contact Elizabeth Lownes at 901.413.6983 or eelownes@gmail.com

All classes will be held in my home in our newly remodeled state of the art kitchen. Parents are encouraged to stay with their children and be a part of the classroom as well.

Also, if you have smaller children you would like to bring, we have a fully equipped nursery and playroom that the parents are welcomed to use.