👩🍳 Little Chef
Give your child a real kitchen job while you make something together.
🥄 Make·45 min·$5·Ages 3–5·👶 Medium·🧑 Hands on · 5 min prep
⚠️ Safety first
Stay in the room. Grown-up handles heat and sharp tools, and check for food allergies first.
You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.
Why this is good for your child
- ✓Sequencing
- ✓Measuring
🌱 Montessori-inspired · Practical Life
What you need
Bowl · Measuring cups · Ingredients
Nice to have — not needed today ($5)
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- 1.Choose one job that is entirely theirs.
- 2.Measure and mix side by side.
- 3.Sit down and eat what you made together.
How it actually goes
- ⏱ 30-second set-up —
- Five minutes: pick one real job in tonight's dinner, set out their bowl and tools, push a chair up.
- 🧑 What you do —
- Give one job, keep the knife and the hob, and let them do that job badly.
- 👶 What they do —
- Stir, tear, peel, or sprinkle — start to finish, on their own.
- ✅ What success looks like —
- At 3–4, half the herbs on the floor and 'I made dinner' at the table is exactly right.
- 🧺 How to put it away —
- Their bowl into the sink, their chair back, crumbs swept with a dustpan.
- 📈 When they outgrow it —
- At 5, they choose the job, and read the next step from the recipe.