Cooking with kids is a fun way to connect and spend time together plus it has so many benefits for their growing bodies and minds – they learn where food comes from, how to safely navigate a kitchen, it encourages picky eaters to interact with new foods, and includes fantastic incidental lessons in English (recipe reading) and maths (measuring), the list goes on.

Plus, it’s delicious, which is reason enough!

Before you start, it’s a good idea to make sure you have all ingredients ready, and get everyone to wash their hands (and there’s another lesson in hygiene, right there).

Here are some great recipes to get you and your kids cooking up a storm.

Fruit kebabs

Despite a table full of sugary treats, at every birthday party you’ll see the fruit kebabs get gobbled up first! There is just something so enticing about those edible rainbows that makes kids go straight to them. It’s also a perfect beginner recipe for getting kids in the kitchen! Provide a range of colourful fruits for kids to thread on to bamboo skewers or reusable bento picks. If you’re feeling fancy, you could cut the fruit in to shapes using cookie cutters. Encourage your child to make patterns based on shape, colour and texture.

Mini pizzas

Kidgredients

Pizzas are nice, easy recipe to start with. If you’re not in the mood to make dough, English muffins work really well and will cut down your prep time drastically. If you have older children who can safely use a knife then get them cutting up the veggies and placing them in bowls to create a Make Your Own Pizza Station. Smaller kids can then take their dough or muffin and load it up with all the ingredients they like before Mum or Dad place it in the oven.

Crunchy apple boats

Childhood 101

These adorable apple boats would make a great afternoon tea treat. Those rice cereal pieces can get everywhere if you sprinkle them over the top, but if you place your rice cereal in a bowl and dip the apple in it there will be less chance of it going everywhere. Dress up as pirates, sit in a box on a blue towel ocean, pop on a pirate movie and voila, you’ve got a themed afternoon that they’ll talk about for ages

Cheesy puff pastry stars

My Fussy Eater

No star cutter? No worries! These three ingredient cheesy pastry bites can be made in any shape you like.

Choose dinosaurs or trucks, hearts or elephants – you could even use letter cutters and spell their name. Pressing the shapes out and then painting the gooey egg wash on with a pastry brush is fabulous way to practise those fine motor skills, too!

Chocolate mug pudding

Picklebums

When you’ve just cleaned the kitchen and don’t fancy using sixteen bowls to make a cake with the kids, but you want to cook something, mug cake is your answer!

These single serve desserts are a fabulous, low mess alternative to a giant cake, and because they only use one mug for both mixing and cooking, clean up is a breeze.

As they’re individual, each child can also add extras that only they like – the recipe suggests choc chips or raspberries, but get creative and have them cut up their favourite chocolate bar! Melty Mars Bar pieces, yes please!

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We LOVE our new Frosties and the fantastic thing about them is that they can be used to make a huge range of different icy pops.

We’re sharing just a few recipes today but the possibilities really are endless. Here are just a few examples of what people have made using our wonderful Icy Pop Moulds.

Creamy Mango Frosties 

Ingredients 

• 1/2 cup water
• 400g tinned mango or 2 fresh mangoes peeled and de-seeded
• 250 ml thickened cream

Method

• Use a stick mixer or blender to puree all ingredients together.
• Pour into icy pole moulds, add stick and freeze. 

Berry, Coconut & Mint Icypoles

Ingredients

• 330ml coconut water
• 2 cups frozen or fresh mixed berries
• 1/4 cup of packed mint leaves
• juice of 1 large lemon
• ½ teaspoon stevia

Method

• Use a stick mixer or blender to puree all ingredients together.
• Pour into ice pop moulds, add stick and freeze.

Ice Coffee Icy Pops for Mum! 

Perfect for summer! Enjoy your coffee in a sweet icypole, while the kids have their treat too!

Adjust the ingredients to match how you like your coffee, just add a little more sugar than normal. But make sure everything is cold – this will stop any ice crystals forming when you freeze it.

Ingredients

• 1 cup coffee (instant or ground, however you like it)
• 1-4 tablespoons of granulated sugar (if you take sugar!)
• ¼ - ½ cup of cold milk (whichever type of milk you like, substitute for more coffee if you normally have it black)

Instructions

1. Make your coffee as you normally take it, but add a little more sugar than you would normally. Allow to cool.
2. Stir together the coffee, and milk. Taste and adjust to how you like it.
3. Pour into your Frostie mould and pop in a stick.
4. Freeze until firm – may take at least overnight.

Don’t forget, you don’t even need to stick to icypole-style treats! Use your moulds to make custom chocolates, or use them to make gorgeous bath bombs.

The possibilities truly are endless!

 Photo credit @alongcamefox

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A simple recipe for nut-free chocolate truffles that even the worst cook in the kitchen couldn't get wrong! So healthy, yet so delicious.

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Ugh, it can be hard keeping little ones seated at the dinner table. You know... when they take a couple of bites and then tell you they're finished?!

Here at We Might Be Tiny we're all about trying to keep kids entertained at meal times so they can get the nutrition they need for their tiny growing bodies.

It can be tiresome trying out new recipes, so why not take it back to basics with simple fresh food presented beautifully? You won't be able to keep them away from the table, and more than likely have them asking for more fresh fruit and vegetables! [gasp!]

Keep it interesting this festive season with these Christmas-inspired lunches.

Jolly Santa snack 

What you'll need:

• fresh cherry tomatoes
• slice of cheese
• a couple of blueberries
• wholegrain bread (cut-out with a cookie cutter)

You can also substitute the bread for a round apple slice.

Oh Christmas tree snack

 What you'll need:

• fresh cherry tomatoes
• cucumber slices
• cheese slices
• mango or cantaloupe squares

Of course, any of these items can be substituted for your children's favourites food. 

Adorable creations and photos by the super talented (and busy mother-of-three) Renee King. Check her out on Instagram @missyking