Kids who like to bake take the job of stirring the batter very seriously when they first learn to help out in the kitchen. Soon, they want to know the chemistry behind what makes biscuits rise and the engineering behind what makes a gingerbread house stand.
There are many skills that a kid can learn through baking, but most of all, it’s a fun way to get creative with the family.
The Challenge Of Kids’ Gifts
Every day there is a new toy, a new gadget, or gizmo that’s trending. Gifts for kids who have everything becomes a nearly impossible task, especially when searching for unique gifts. When it comes to kids’ gift ideas, it’s about noticing what they love to do and why.
It’s something special when you see a kid who loves to help out in the kitchen and takes pleasure in learning everything they can about cooking. Baking brings you back home—gooey chocolate chip cookies on sad days or a special cake made for the holidays. Baking is about comfort as much as it is about creativity—or even science.
So, how do you know what to buy a kid who likes to bake? The spatulas, measuring cups, and grandma’s recipe cards are already in the kitchen. It’s all about making the gift unique and personal to that special kid.
Personalized Gift For Kids
Family, peers, school activities, and interests are all intrinsic parts of a child’s development. Each also makes up an important memory likely captured in a photo.
Imagine that child’s surprise to find out that they can bake custom picture cookies and eat them! Whether honoring a loved one or a special memory, edible photo cookies put a smile on everyone’s face—before the cookies disappear!
With Baketivity, all you need to get started is the Face-Bake DIY Cookie Kit to create 12 personalized sugar cookies with faces. Your child will receive step-by-step recipe instructions as well as all the baking supplies:
- Sugar
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Vanilla sugar
- Flour
- Baking powder
- Circle cookie cutters
- Edible custom stick-ons (the edible photos!)
So, how do you make edible stick-ons? That’s the extra-easy part! All you have to do is upload the photo, then add your custom text to personalize it, such as “Soccer star!" to celebrate their greatest goal scored.
Surprise your child or pick out the photo and select the text you write together. If you can't decide between photos, then you have the option to create a collage in an abstract mosaic pattern or a heart. You can access saved photos and come back to the project later. That way, you can easily create a new beloved baking tradition with your child!
Holiday-Themed Gift For Kids
When it comes to the holidays, traditions are the best part. Kids who love to bake would love a holiday-themed recipe they bake all on their own.
While the adults cook the main dish and the sides, your little one can create a delicious dessert of their own to contribute to the celebration—or bake gingerbread cookies for Santa. One excellent example of an easy-to-make recipe is the holiday trifle.
Addie’s Brownie Peppermint Trifles
Trifles have been around in one form or another for centuries and originally began as a delicious way to use up stale cake and other ingredients by layering cake, fruit, custard, and other ingredients. Today, the trifle can be found at grandma’s dinner table or in a five-star restaurant.
Trifles are beautiful to look at, good to eat, and easy to make. With the ready-to-make Addie’s Brownie Peppermint Trifles recipe kit, this easy brownie trifle certainly takes the cake without fuss or mess. The kit comes with a fun activity book, step-by-step guide, and all the pre-measured dry ingredients:
- 4 clear cups
- 1 round cookie cutter
- Starlight peppermint candies
- 4 candy canes
- Sugar
- Flour
- Cocoa powder
- Salt
All you need to do is combine the pre-measured ingredients, add in your own eggs, oil, water, and juice, and follow the instructions for baking and layering the trifle. It’s a fun activity for the whole family to do together.
Gingerbread Cookies
Before the 1700s, gingerbread cookies and houses were an important part of religious and folk traditions around the holidays. Gingerbread man cookies were once made to resemble important religious and folk history figures. Now, many communities host gingerbread house-building competitions, and gingerbread man cookie decorating remains a beloved holiday tradition.
Whether you are honoring older traditions with your little one or beginning a new one, baking kits are a fun and educational way to inspire the inspiring little baker in your life.
Educational Gift For Kids
For thousands of years, the gift of a baked good has been an important tradition to share with neighbors and the community at large. It teaches kids about diversity and the power of positivity when one does good in the world. One’s community is a bigger home, and it is full of many people with many stories, traditions, and languages.
Teaching children about diversity involves compassion, vulnerability, and the ability to be a learner yourself. To celebrate and promote the positivity of cultural diversity for kids, bake eight delicious flower sugar cookies with the Posi-tivity Kids Cookie Kit. This limited release box is designed to encourage conversations despite differences. The kit comes with a step-by-step recipe guide, activity book, colored candies, and pre-measured dry ingredients, as well as watercolors and a yard sign to promote your togetherness message.
Create conversation within your community with the power of sharing food and stories. Family time becomes a quality time filled with growth and learning to promote kindness and equality to all, regardless of ability, race, or ethnicity.
Why Baking Is a Great Hobby For Kids
Teaching children how to cook from a young age, especially the art and science of baking, addresses several important youth development markers:
- Cognitive: Baking encourages kids to solve problems with critical thinking and to build creative skills. With their knowledge base, kids can actively apply it by following directions, learning cause and effect, and practicing counting and measuring.
- Language: Baking allows children to build upon their language skills across multiple disciplines in the arts, social studies, mathematics, and sciences. Encouraging your child to discuss what they are counting doing all promotes language development.
- Social-emotional: Baking is a hands-on activity that helps children build various skills and confidence. It teaches children to be independent and self-directed while learning to follow directions and solve problems creatively and collaboratively if cooking with others.
- Physical: As a hands-on activity, children develop eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills by mixing, squeezing, spreading, and chopping.
Unique gifts that encourage kids to bake also encourage them to develop these important skills while learning even more than you could imagine, all the while bringing the family even closer together.