Kitchen Games to Play With Kids

Spending family time in the kitchen can be great fun for kids and parents alike; creating meals and baking treats together makes for great memories. While you̵7;re in the kitchen, you can enhance the experience by playing some entertaining and educational games with your kids. Each game is designed for fun and for learning.

  1. Estimating

    • Pour some dried beans into a glass jar. Provide kids with a set of measuring cups. Ask them to estimate the amount of beans in the cup; then have them use the measuring cups to see how close they were. Next, take turns with your kids putting beans into the jar and estimating.

    Triple Threat

    • Practice math, learn something about nutrition and play a game all at the same time with this triple threat activity. Arbitrarily pick a number from 10 to 20; then tell everyone to go on a ̶0;fat hunt̶1; by pulling jars, boxes and cans from the cabinets in search of items that add up to that number of servings of fat.

    Spice Jumble

    • Give kids a list of spices in your cabinets; however, jumble the letters first. Let them have access to spices as they play the game and talk about what each one is used for. Bake a treat using cinnamon or other spices after kids complete the game.

    Taste Testing

    • Give each family member an opportunity to try out this taste-testing experiment. One person goes out of the room and is blindfolded before returning. Meanwhile, family members in the kitchen prepare ̶0;tastes̶1; of various liquids in small cups, such as Tabasco sauce, lemon juice and chocolate syrup. The taster tries to guess the contents.

    Cookie Cutter Teams

    • Pairs of cookie makers compete with each other to make cookies meeting certain requirements: the longest and tiniest sugar cookies; cookies with the least number of ingredients; cookies with the most kinds of chocolate ingredients; or other criteria the family sets forth.

    Pretzel Letters

    • For little ones who are just learning to read, take turns forming pretzel sticks and rings into alphabet letters and lining them up into short words and messages.

    Veggie Love

    • Challenge family members to make the most appealing vegetable dish, starting with the same vegetable. Give everyone an opportunity to research recipes in cookbooks and online. Bring home different kinds of vegetables to broaden everyone̵7;s tasting experiences.

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