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All children love helping in the kitchen, so making sure that baking is fun for children isn’t difficult. However, safety and sanity are a prime concern for Mom’s and others who choose to spend kitchen time with kids. Here are five tips to make baking more fun for both you and the youngsters.

1.) Pick simple recipes that can be enhanced with fun ingredients. Allow kids to help pick out what they will create. Cookies or cupcakes are always a good option since they can be frosted and decorated with any number of fun and easy to handle ingredients like sprinkles, food coloring, fruit or nuts.

2.) Involve the kids by allowing them to do simple tasks like retrieving ingredients, rolling or shaping dough, stirring batter or measuring.

3.) You can take advantage of the educational opportunities presented while baking by teaching techniques and explaining fractional measurments. Smaller children can learn colors and numbers as well as solve simple math problems.

4.) Explain the expected outcome of each task and supervise children to make sure that they are following directions and accomplishing tasks appropriately, but don’t focus too much on perfection.

5.) Allow kids some technical latitude and supress your displeasure if things go wrong. Allow kids to take pride in their kitchen creations.