Kids Chef Hats Aprons Pants Coat Uniforms Party Ideas

Children's cooking parties are a fun (and sometimes crazy) way for encouraging Kids to Cook delicious food. Don’t underestimate the great importance of your kids learning how to cook and moving around the kitchen.

Maybe you don’t want your chef to become an overnight chef, but you can teach your little ones about food and cooking. Well, birthday parties are a fantastic occasion for instilling interest for this in your kids, so consider in your next party to host a cooking themed party instead.

Just imagine your children learning how to bake, just laugh with them while they toss pizza dough, mixing ingredients and decorate cupcakes. This magazine will help you to find all those items you need for planning and doing your next cooking party just for kids, we include party ideas, cupcake molds, aprons, paper chef hats and aprons, even you can have the kid who is hosting the party to wear a chef uniform (or at least a chef coat with hat for making it even more special).

There also included party invitations. Even We include links for toys for cooking parties for kids less than 4 or 5 years old. If you follow your common sense your celebration will have a playful atmosphere of fun for them. Try to incorporate the best tips into your party, plan things from the chef themed invitations and decorations all the end to party cakes, gift bag favors, chef costumes and additional surprises.

It doesn’t have to be expensive and if you follow your own plan you will have a super little chefs cooking party! Once you set out the ingredients and kitchen tools for starting the preparation of recipe(s), you make a call for washing hands and children use their chef hats and aprons, giving green light for the fun. For best results, consider dividing into two or three groups of 3-5 children, if possible each group with an adult supervising (Depending on the number of children plan for getting a couple of assistants to help you hosting the party, try to involve parents of guests children).

Just prepare 1 or 2 easy and favourite recipes (Please Don't try to do too much, because they could become overwhelmed with so many things, just include one main dish and one delicious dessert but no more than 3 dishes in total.) that you know will make the kids look forward the end result, things like pizza, cakes, etc. For dessert, they can made their own banana split.

 The idea is to allow those little chefs to use their senses while their are cooking, exploring the smell of the oil, herbs, touch the pizza dough and sugar. At the end of the day, kids will love eating their own handiwork and recipes, and they will enjoy the idea of being chefs for the day.

So don’t doubt to give them a hat, an apron, some kitchen tools in order they have a real hands on experience in the kitchen. Don’t forget adults, you can order in pizzas for them. Some tips you have to consider regarding the safety of kids are: While the idea is to involve children in the kitchen, let they prepare and mix and toss the dough, select ingredients, etc but have an adult doing the baking in the oven or stove top, you will want to be extra cautious in this kind of situations specially when there are so many children playing together.

Make each kid feel like a real chef, so have a canvas apron available for each one of your guests where you can write their names with fabric paint or you can use fabric markers instead of paint. They dry instantly so they will be able to wear them after they decorate them.

Use fun slogans like mom’s helper, or amazing chef followed by their names. We list several aprons special for this party. Also you can purchase or make paper chef hat for each child promoting even more the cooking atmosphere. Also Have cupcake recipes printed out in large text.

Don’t forget keeping the fun up while the party food is cooking, use funny games or have them watch a short movie. You can search for Filler ideas for parties or simply search for Kids cooking party games. Also during you can took pictures of all of the kid's in their chef's hats and aprons.

Also you can have them decorating cakes while they wait for the food to be ready. Invitations, they are as important as the decorations themselves. Here are some children Invitation Ideas for your next Cooking Party: You can Shape your invitation on heavy paper like a cooking pot, rolling pin, recipe cards or send the aprons with their names on it, or chef's hat and write down the party information.

One line for the invitation could be: "cooking up some fun for (your kid name here)'s 5th birthday, so join all the other little chefs on (details here). Also these are some ideas for the Goodie Bags, in those bags you can include a copy of the recipe they made so they make it again at home, you can give away cookie cutters and some kitchen tool toys, and even a book about party ideas.

Don't forget that the very apron they decorated themselves or the chef hat is a nice recordatory of the party they can take homel be the kids favorite! Don’t you think this is a good way of fostering love for cooking? Do you believe it’s important to encourage your kids in the kitchen? So ask yourself if your kids would enjoy a cooking birthday party? simply ask them!

Then, If you are wondering how best to celebrate your son or daughter's next birthday then this wonderful party idea, just imagine your kids and guest having fun cooking pizza or baking their own cake. Not only for birthday parties, these kitchen theme would work great for sleepovers, boy scout meetings, after school clubs, family reunions etc.

Teach your children how to cook and instill an interest for healthier food. I know, I know at the end of the event you’ll still be left with the clean-up, but you will know that you have planted a seed in those children’s lives teaching them something valuable, so you decide go for it... Have fun Hosting a Cooking-Themed Birthday Little Chef’s Party.

Snacks & Treats

Here is the thing about snacks in the party, you can prepare a crowd favorite food and very easy to do, take 3 recipes:

Smoothie jellies with ice cream

Ingredients.

6 sheets leaf gelatine

1l bottle orange, mango and passion fruit smoothie (we used Innocent)

To serve

500ml tub good-quality vanilla ice cream such as Green & Black's (you might not need it all)

Method

1. Put the leaf gelatine into a bowl and cover with cold water. Leave for a few mins until soft and floppy. Meanwhile, gently heat the smoothie in a saucepan without boiling. Take off the heat. Lift the gelatine out of the water, squeeze out the excess water, then add it to the smoothie pan. Stir well until smooth, then pour into 12 moulds, pots or glasses, or use 24 shot-glass-sized pots. Chill for at least 1 hr to set.

2. For perfect mini scoops of ice cream, dip a tbsp measuring spoon into a cup of hot water, then shake off the excess. Scoop the ice cream, dipping the spoon in the hot water each time. Serve each smoothie jelly topped with ice cream.

Guava & passion fruit lollies

Ingredients.

300 ml passion fruit juice (we used Rubicon)

300ml guava juice (we used Rubicon)

Method

1. Pour 300ml passion fruit juice into 8 lolly moulds and half-fill.

2. Freeze until almost solid, push in a lolly stick and top up with 300ml guava juice. Freeze until solid.

Marshmallows dipped in chocolate

Ingredients.

50g white chocolate

50g milk chocolate

selection of cake sprinkles

1 bag marshmallows (about 200g)

1 pack lollipop sticks

Method

1. Heat the chocolate in separate bowls over simmering water or on a low setting in the microwave. Allow to cool a little.

2. Put your chosen sprinkles on separate plates. Push a cake pop or lolly stick into a marshmallow about half way in. Dip into the white or milk chocolate, allow the excess to drip off then dip into the sprinkles of your choice. Put into a tall glass to set. Repeat with each marshmallow.