🥄 Make👨‍🍳 Practical life

🥤 Make a Smoothie

They load it, you press the button, everyone drinks it.

Ages

3–5

Duration

20 min

Cost

👶 Kid challenge

Easy

🧑 Parent energy

Hands on · 3 min prep

⚠️ Safety first

Stay in the room. You handle the blender, always unplugged when they help. Serve in a cup, never a lid they can bite.

You know your child best — supervise the whole time and skip anything that isn't right for them. See our Terms.

BananaYoghurtBerriesBlender

Nice to have — not needed today ($3)

Everything we put in your daily three is free and already in the kitchen. This one needs banana if you want to try it.

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The honest version — including what "going well" looks like at this age.

⏱ 30-second set-up: Thirty seconds: put banana, yoghurt, berries on a tray or a clear bit of floor, and sit down next to it before you call them over.
🧑 What you do: Show it once, slowly, without talking over yourself. Then hand it over and stop helping unless they ask.
👶 What they do: Do the real job, slowly, with their own hands — spills and all.
✅ What success looks like: At 3–4 they'll repeat it, narrate it, and want to change the rules. Let them change the rules.
🧺 How to put it away: Everything back into one basket or tray, carried back to its spot by them. Naming the spot out loud is what makes it stick.
📈 When they outgrow it: Older? Hand over the whole job, start to finish, including the clean-up.