Cooking With Children Can Be Easy

The Complete System

for

Single Portion Recipes

(Teacher Edition - Revised)

by Kathy O’Reilly

Honest! Cooking with children really can be easy and fun. This cookbook/teachers’ manual has taken all the work out of planning a cooking project with children so you can look forward to cooking as much as the children.

            With single portion recipes, no one will be disappointed because they did not get to add the ingredient they wanted or did not get enough turns to stir.  Each child gets to perform every step of the recipe - “all by myself!” - to make their very own serving.

CUTS TEACHER PREPARATION TIME BY 75%!!

	EASY TO FOLLOW SEQUENCE Easy to follow sequence makes set-up easy because it provides: ·         Recipe direction cards for each step of every recipe. ·         A clear list of equipment needed for each step of every recipe. ·         A shopping list for each recipe with the amount of ingredients needed to cook with twenty children. ·         Helpful hints from over 25 years experience.
	HEALTHY AND DELICIOUS RECIPES ·         A variety of different snacks and beverages. ·         Individual portions allow each child to experience every step of the recipe - “all by myself!” ·         No refined sugar. ·         Fresh, wholesome, easy to find ingredients.
	RECIPE DIRECTION CARDS ·         Large (5” x 7”), easy to read size. ·         Pictures for pre-readers and words for readers. ·         Printed on cardstock. ·         Numbered for easy filing and retrieval. ·         Just cut and file.
	SUPPORT MATERIALS ·         Sample letters to copy and send parents that:              Include and educate them.             Request help with ingredients.              Invite them to a “Kitchen Shower” for new or used equipment. ·         Recommendations for related books that complement each recipe. ·         Activities to complement each recipe. ·         Seven pages of additional food related activities that cover all curriculum areas. ·         Resource lists. ·         Manuscript is sturdily bound in a three ring binder.

Why cook with children?

Cooking is one of the few activities that not only meets a basic need of providing food but also encompasses all areas of the curriculum:

Motor skills- pouring; using a beater; grating; stirring

Language- reading; increase vocabulary; nouns (egg, whisk); adjectives (large, metal); verbs (beat, grate)

Math- volume; measuring; fractions; counting; 1 to 1 correspondence

Science- chemical and physical reactions; changing states of matter; use of tools; botany

Geography/History- origins of recipes, ingredients, and tools

Art- arranging  food;  replicating  still-life paintings with food

Cooking their very own serving also builds confidence while developing concentration and lifelong skills.

About the Author

            Kathy O’Reilly, a certified Montessori teacher, curriculum director, and former administrator at The Montessori School of Huntsville, has been cooking in the classroom since 1975. She has also taught children’s cooking classes at other local schools, the University of Alabama at Huntsville Kid’s College, and the Botanical Gardens.  Her workshops for teachers have been well received at regional and national teacher conferences. Ms. O’Reilly has also had articles published in Infants and Toddlers magazine.

Cooking With Children Can Be Easy - The Complete System for Single Portion Recipes is already being used in over 2,500 classrooms/programs in more than 45 states and 12 foreign countries. Comments from teachers using the book:

“I’ve had such success with your cookbook, I can’t wait to share your idea with my student teacher!  I know she’ll be able to use it.”

 “... so well thought out and organized.”

 “It’s one of those rare ‘teacher friendly’ books that you know you can trust.”

“The station set-ups were complete!”

 “I’ve been cooking  with children for many years, but I’ve never been so organized.”

 “I saw your book at the San Jose Children’s Museum and had to have one.  It is the best book I have ever seen.”  

 “This has got to be the best cookbook for children on the market.  I really enjoyed this activity so much that I am now the cooking teacher on our cooking days.”

 “Let me know if and when you put out a new  edition.  The kids like to cook so much  that I could use another whole book full of recipes.”

Available Publications from

Cooking With Children Can Be Easy

(Teacher Editions)

Original Manual   (PL101)  $45.00

          - 112 page manual

            - 25 recipes

            - 134 direction cards

17 Recipe Supplement   (PL102)  $30.00

            - 71 additional pages

            - 17 new recipes

            - 90 additional direction cards

Can only be used with the original binder as many of the recipes use some of the cards from the original set. This supplement is a continuation of the Original Manual. Just add the pages to your binder and the cards to your file.

 No Heat Edition   (PL103)  $40.00

            - 99 pages

            - 20 recipes

            - 107 direction cards

These recipes do not require a heat source. They are taken from the Original  Manual and the 17 Recipe Supplement. Two recipes use a micro- wave and four use a blender.