The outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought the world to a screeching halt. Schools have been closed, and large/public gatherings are discouraged. As much as possible, the government and the WHO have advised citizens to remain indoors and only make necessary trips out of the house.
With the kids home from school so abruptly, parents are looking for fun activities that will keep the children occupied and out of trouble. Since outdoor activities should be kept to the minimum, trips to malls and parks, sleepovers, or playdates must be replaced with indoor activities throughout the quarantine period.
If you’re looking for fun things to do with kids at home, learn below how our
kids’ baking kits can keep your children from getting bored. Engage them by baking fun treats and participating in the fun and educational activities found inside each baking kit. Keep reading to learn more!Keeping kids occupied is a difficult task. You need to find activities that are engaging, fun and educational in order to make up for the time lost during the school term. As a parent, you can use baking kits to keep children of all ages occupied for hours. Depending on the age of the child, each baking kit comes with fun activity sheets that provide interactive activities to engage and teach your children.
If you’re looking for activities to keep kids busy over the unexpected break, you can sign up to get a
monthly subscription of kids baking kits. Once you do, you’ll get a package that includes various activities to keep your children busy and having fun.
Why should you use these baking kits? As children learn baking, they can look forward to sharing tasty treats at the end of the baking session. Not only that, but you can pass the time by discussing the baking process and cleaning up while the treats are baking. By choosing the right things to keep kids busy at home, you can keep them from venturing outdoors or going on destructive sprees.
Baking kits can be used by children of all ages. In fact, tweens and teens can use these baking kits to make tasty desserts to be shared with the family, and they can work without supervision. Because of the pre-measured ingredients, the process becomes much easier for all children. If you have older kids, they can keep their younger siblings occupied, allowing you to work from home when you need to.Right from birth, children need to learn various skills, and they pick them up from the various activities they engage in at home and at school. Learning how to bake helps children to develop some of
these skills, which are critical to the developmental journey.
For example, learning to bake teaches children how to understand and interpret instructions, and how to follow those instructions to come up with a finished product. The baking process provides dozens of learning opportunities for children of all ages. They can:
- Mix ingredients to build their gross and fine motor skills, bilateral coordination and arm muscle strength
- Understand instruction sequences to build their reasoning skills
- Expand their palate by being introduced to new flavors and foods. This is excellent for picky eaters, as they’re more likely to enjoy what they helped to prepare
- Learn responsibility by participating in the clearing and cleaning up after cooking
- Learn how to safely handle kitchen equipment and to make their way around the kitchen without hurting themselves and others
- Gain a sense of accomplishment when they see the final products of their effort
In addition, when children learn to bake you can take the opportunity to impart basic math, language and science skills. Younger children can learn to count and then learn about fractions while older kids can learn the basic science principles by watching what happens at various states of baking.
Using a baking kit can make the baking process simpler for children because they come with pre-measured ingredients. Measuring out is a little difficult for younger children because their bilateral coordination skills are still developing.
With a kit, all you need to do is purchase your wet ingredients, read the recipe instructions, and make your delicious treats. Take out the hard work and leave the lesson in learning to bake by trying any of the kids’ baking kits we have.Children have very limited attention spans: a child needs to engage in various activities throughout the day so that they don’t get bored or destructive. The younger the child, the more variety you need to keep them entertained.
Playtime is essential to a child’s growth, which is why it’s essential to repurpose some of the playtime activities to teach various skills. This is where baking kits can come in: apart from providing delicious treats and baking lessons in an easy way, baking kits include educational activities and games for children.
You’ll find exercises and games that improve their math and counting skills, language skills, and even DIY activities to help them practice arts and crafts and improve their hand-eye coordination.
Activities like coloring and making easy crafts provide an outlet for the child’s creativity and self-expression. You can keep your children engaged for hours and allow yourself to clean or do any other work needed around the home. With every subscription box, you’ll find educational games for kids and activity sheets that you can use to engage a group of children while they wait for their treats to be ready. With such games, your children won’t notice the time fly, and that’s exactly what you want for them.
Once you’re done with the activity sheets in the baking kits, you can easily download and print extra activity ideas from our
activities section to keep your children engaged.Spending time together as a family is critical for the proper development of children and parents alike. Not only does quality family time encourage family bonding, but it also has many more benefits, such as:
- Providing avenues to show appreciation, affection, and encouragement
- Instilling a sense of security in children
- Building children’s sense of self and self-confidence
- Sharing chores and teaching responsibility to children
- Encouraging connection and teaching important life lessons
Taking time during the day to engage in family fun activities like baking together is essential to building stronger families. Baking kits for kids can give you something to look forward to each month so that you can build your family bond.
These kits can either be used as a family or you can entrust your older children (tweens and teens) with them to make family desserts. Once younger children understand why it’s important to make time for family, they will not forget the lesson as they grow up.There are many more lessons that cooking together as a family can teach younger children. Visit our site to see all the delicious treats available in our baking kits, and how you can make your orders to receive a kit each month.
Remember, signing up for a longer subscription makes the kit even cheaper and gives your children something to look forward to each month. Especially during this time when our movement should be limited to only essential activities.
Happy baking!
