America’s Test Kitchen brings you this interactive cooking workbook for kids ages 8 to 12 (grades 3 to 7). The book title “Kitchen Explorers” is well named as it’s got more than just cooking, with 138 pages containing recipes, science experiments, hands-on activities, and games – all themed around food!
This interactive cookbook will turn your kitchen into a classroom where your young ones can participate in 20 kid-tested and kid-approved cooking recipes, 20 awesome experiments and activities, as well as 30+ games, coloring pages, and other fun stuff!
From word games to scrambles, coloring pages to mad libs, quizzes to trivia, these food-centric activities and games will keep kids engaged with the pages for hours on end, while learning valuable food-related lessons in the process.
Recipes have space for kids to note down what they liked or didn’t like, as well as what they might change next time. Experiments have space for kids to make a prediction, make notes, interpret the results.
Some of my favorite recipes from this book are yogurt parfaits, blueberry muffins, tortilla snack chips, cranberry-almond no-bake energy bites, pesto flatbread “pizza,” bean and cheese quesadillas, buttermilk drop biscuits, after-school peanut butter cookies, s’mores rice cereal treats, and fudgy chocolate mug cakes.
My favorite experiments and activities in this book are: The Nose Knows, What Makes Fizzy Drinks Fizzy?, Salt Art, Testing and Tasting Texture, Tasting Blind, The Gooey Science of Melting Cheese, Amazing Emulsions, Taste Test the Rainbow, Regrow Your Vegetables, Awesome Avocados and Amazing Acids, and Bubbly Baking.
The games and puzzles included such as crossword puzzles, word searches, and multiple-choice questions, all reinforce what they’ve learned throughout the book
There’s also an additional section for parents, written by education specialists to help guide learning and connect materials to what kids might be learning in school. And this section for parents is also a tear-out section which is pretty handy to tear out for quick reference.
America’s Test Kitchen brings you this bonus interactive cooking workbook for kids. The book title “Kitchen Explorers” is well named as it’s got more than just cooking, with 138 pages containing recipes, science experiments, hands-on activities, and games – all themed around food! This interactive cookbook will turn your kitchen into a classroom where your young ones can participate in 20 kid-tested and kid-approved cooking recipes, 20 awesome experiments and activities, as well as 30+ games, coloring pages, and other fun stuff!
