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20 Easy and Fun Recipes to Try with Kids

January 18, 2023 by Farrah Iesha Leave a Comment

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Teach your kids cooking with these fun and delicious kid-friendly recipes. The ingredients are common and convenient, and kids will have fun concocting the dishes. Getting involved with the ingredients and cooking process can also reduce picky eating.

Here are 20 ideas for a fun cooking session with your kids, younger siblings, or students.

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Cat Bagels with Veggie Cream Cheese

Bagel sandwiches are kid-friendly meals that don’t require a cooking process. You can blend vegetables like celery and baby carrots to mix them with the cream cheese. Use raisins, strawberries, and pretzel sticks to create a cat’s face on a bagel slice.

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3 Ingredient Banana Oatmeal Cookies

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies are fun to make and eat. Ask the kids to help you with this simple recipe. The cookies just consist of bananas, chocolate chips, and oatmeal. You need to help with the oven, but your kids can handle the simple ingredients easily.

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Colorful Pasta Salad

Make your kids eat vegetables by chopping the veggies up and mix them with fun-shaped pasta. You can choose vegetables that the kids will like, such as corn, carrots, and peas (buy and prepare the ingredients together to make the kids interested).

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Rice Crispy Treats in Lego Forms

Lego blocks are ideal shapes for rice crispy treats. You and the kids can prepare the ingredients using food coloring and frosting. Let them make the colored frosting and shape the Lego blocks. Use M&M’s candies as the ornaments.

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Simple Flatbread Pizzas

Flatbread pizzas are easy recipes for kids to cook. You can even use a microwave to cook the pizzas. The recipe simply uses flatbreads, ketchup, cheese, bell peppers, and tomatoes. Kids can have fun arranging the ingredients before you help baking the pizzas.

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Monster Face Mini Pizzas

These mini pizzas use English muffins as the dough. Cut the muffins in half before arranging the ingredients, such as cheese, olives, pizza sauce, and bell peppers. Use the cut olives, peppers, and carrots to form mini monster faces on the muffins.

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“Fairy” Apple Rings

Introduce your kids or students to cooking with no-bake apple “donuts”. Make the “donuts” by coring apples and slicing them into rings. Let the kids decorate them with chia seeds, cut strawberries, chocolate chips, and other ingredients.

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Energy Bites with Peanut Butter and Oat

Have fun with kids by rolling peanut butter, oat, ground flax seeds, honey, and chocolate chips. Form little balls for no-bake “energy bites”. Keep them in Ziploc bags and store in the fridge for future consumptions.

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Simple Chocolate Cupcakes

Chocolate cupcakes are great cooking recipes for kids from slightly older ages. This recipe uses flour, sugar, eggs, butter, and dark chocolate as the main ingredients. Use colorful cupcake papers and decorative treats to create cute cupcakes.

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Simple Honey Bread

Bread is a simple staple to make, and you can mix it with honey for an extra flavor. This simple honey bread recipe only needs very few ingredients. Kids can help with the process before you bake it.

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Egg Bread Kebab with Fruits

This fun “kebab” consists of simple bread cuts in egg batter and fruits. You can use this recipe to teach a slightly older kid simple cooking process (frying the bread). Use favorite breakfast fruits such as strawberries and bananas for the kebab.

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Mini Chicken and Cheese Quesadillas

Mini quesadillas are perfect and easy recipes for kids, full of protein and fiber. The quesadillas have the perfect sizes, and you can ask the kids to help. Use shredded chicken and cheese of your choice.

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Pasta with Turkey Meatballs

A simple pasta dish is a great dish to make with kids. Shaped pasta such as rotini makes the dish look pretty. Kids can help to mix the turkey meatballs and roll them into round shapes. Serve with vegetables, shredded cheese, and any condiments your family likes.

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Simple English Muffin Pizzas

English muffin pizzas are delicious and simple recipes for kids with a creative streak. You can provide several options for cheese, meat, and/or vegetables. Kids can get creative with the toppings before you bake them.

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Simple Banana Bread

Banana bread has simple ingredients, and your kids can help to make it. With milk, cinnamon, bananas, and brown sugar, this bread is a delicious and healthy breakfast item. Let your kids get messy and have fun while making the bread.

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Goldfish Cracker “Pizza”

Turn Goldfish crackers into “pizza” snacks with butter, tomato paste, and herbs. The process is easy because you only need to mix and shape them. Kids can help with the process, but make sure you deal with the baking part. Sprinkle some cheese and chili flakes if your kids like them.

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Simple Burritos with Rice and Beans

Burritos are fulfilling and nutritious, perfect for fun lunch and dinner. You can make burritos with kids, asking them to fill the tortillas with instant rice, shredded cheese, and pinto beans. Microwave the tortillas to roll them more easily.

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Simple Brazilian Truffles

Brigadeiros are Brazilian truffles that consist of chocolate, dulce de leche, butter, and various toppings. They don't require baking, so you can use the recipe for a classroom or kid-friendly cooking session. Let the kids choose their favorite sprinkles, such as coconut flakes, groundnuts, and colorful sprinkles.

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Easy Maltesers Tiffin Bars

Another no-bake dessert, Maltesers Tiffin bars use beloved British chocolate balls for the ingredients. The bars consist of white chocolate, Rich Tea biscuits, Rice Krispies, cocoa powder, and other great ingredients. You must keep them in the fridge for several hours, but the results are worth the wait.

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Smoothie Bowl with Berries

Introduce a healthy lifestyle to your kids with smoothie bowls. Mixed berries are refreshing, delicious, and great fun for kids to turn into a smoothie. Let them get creative with healthy toppings. Use bananas, strawberries, nuts, coconut flakes, and other delicious ingredients.

Kid-friendly recipes are perfect for classroom activities or weekend kitchen fun. You can experiment with favorite snacks or healthy ingredients. Teach your kids cooking in a fun way with simple recipes that are fun to make.

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  1. Harlow's Harvest Kids Baking Box

    September 25, 2020 at 5:55 am

    Great list of recipes, Iesha. They all look delicious — especially the rice crispy treats. Kids will love that they’re so colorful!

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