Spending time with your child is incredibly important for their social and emotional development. Take time each week to engage in an activity with them. Use these handy crafting and cooking ideas to create wonderful memories. Even the very young child can help prepare food in the kitchen. Our included recipes are kid-tested and mother approved. Send us pictures of the final product! We’d love to see them!!

Step 1) Pre-portion out the ingredients with your child.

Step 2) Place an assembled blender on the countertop or secure table where you and your child can both monitor the blender.

Step 3) Poor milk, honey, yogurt and banana in the basin of your blender. Cover the blender with the lid and turn on the power leading to the blender.

Step 4) Lift the opening on the top of the blender lid and poor in the strawberries and watch them swirl into the smoothie.

Step 5) Add protein powder if desired until incorporated.

Step 6) Turn off blender.

Step 7) Poor smoothie into glasses and drink the final product.

Step 8) Clean dirty utensils.

Step 9) Serve and enjoy.

Step 1) Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 2) Pre-prepare breakfast sausage, scrambled eggs, and diced vegetables.

Step 3) Roll crescent dough into 4 flat circles and set aside.

Step 4) Prick holes and crimp the edges of the crescent dough with a fork.

Step 5) Designate each ingredient into a separate bowl with an assigned spoon on the countertop.

Step 6) Place the 4 flat circles of crescent dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Step 7) Give permission to each child to prepare their own breakfast pizza.

Step 8) Layer toppings on each flat circle of crescent dough.

Step 9) Place baking sheet with each created breakfast pizza into the oven.

Step 10) Bake breakfast pizzas until crescent dough is golden brown (approximately 15-20 minutes).

Step 11) Remove contents from oven and cool.

Step 12) Serve and enjoy.

Step 1) Pre-heat oven to 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Step 2) Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

Step 3) Combine oats and pecans in a large bowl.

Step 4) Stir melted butter, honey, sugar, water, vanilla extract in a separate bowl.

Step 5) Add stirred ingredients to oats and pecans.

Step 6) Poor combined mixture onto prepared baking sheet.

Step 7) Place baking sheet in oven.

Step 8) Clean dirty dishes while granola bakes in oven.

Step 9) Intermittently stir granola every 15 minutes.

Step 10) Remove granola from oven after 1 hour and set to cool.

Step 11) Mix in chocolate chips.

Step 12) Serve and enjoy.

Step 1) Mix yogurt with strawberry jam

in a separate bowl.

Step 2) Pulverize sliced strawberries and honey in a separate bowl with fork or blender

Step 3) Layer yogurt and jam mixture at the bottom of the popsicle molds.

Step 4) Add a layer of the strawberry honey mixture on top of the yogurt mixture in the popsicle molds.

Step 5) Sprinkle granola over previous layers.

Step 6) Repeat layers until molds are full and/or you run out of ingredients.

Step 7) Assemble popsicles molds per user instructions to ensure they are frozen appropriately.

Step 8) Tap molds gently against countertop to remove air bubbles from the popsicle layers.

Step 9) Place popsicle molds in freezer.

Step 10) Keep popsicle contents in freezer until ingredients are frozen. Expect to wait a minimum of 6 hours for ingredients to freeze completely.

Step 11) Remove popsicles when ready to serve and enjoy.

Step 1) Place ingredients in separate containers on a surface easy for your child to access.

Step 2) Let each individual make their own breakfast parfait.

Step 3) Layer yogurt on the bottom of the serving cups.

Step 4) Sprinkle granola, fruit, nuts and seeds as desired over yogurt layer.

Step 5) Repeat layers until you and your child have achieved a desired serving size.

Step 6) Enjoy.