• Their sense of smell is utilized. The smell of milk, cinnamon, sugar, lemon and cocoa are all so different and they can benefit from all of these by using simple kids recipes.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal live. John 3:16 (NIV)

• Their sense of sound is being utilized, the sound of a wooden spoon on a ceramic bowl is totally different to a metal spoon on the same ceramic bowl.

• Their sense of taste of course is also being utilized, they taste both raw and cooked ingredients.

• The beginning of their maths skills, are being learnt... 3 teaspoons of sugar, if you cut a block of butter into 2 equal pieces, those are called halves.

• For 7 – 10 year olds, all their senses are also at work - sight, sound, smell, touch and taste.

They have the added benefit of improving their maths and reading skills. They’re able to start reading the easy kids recipes and the labels on the ingredients. This is where the easy kids recipes are so important. The child needs to be able to read the recipe and not struggle over large adult words. They’re exercising and expanding their maths skills as they work out halves and quarters, measuring and weighing. Home school is taking place in the kitchen using simple recipes for kids.

Now the most important reason of all…. Building self reliance. Their confidence will increase as they won’t need anyone to make them baked goodies, they can do it themselves with their easy kids recipes.

This is really important because to survive we need to be able to make our own food. It is a basic survival instinct, to eat. Children inherently realize this, and obtain a feeling of self reliance when they know that they are able to meet their most basic needs independently.

So to sum it all up we’re baking together for the following reasons:

• to build self esteem and self reliance
• to awaken all their senses whilst learning
• to improve their maths skills
• to improve their reading skills

Not to be overlooked is the importance of enjoying each others’ company in an out of the ordinary yet comfortingly familiar environment. Taking our easy kids recipes we can turn plain old baking into a fun filled homeschool learning experience.

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