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Cooking with Kids provides hands-on learning with real food to over 5,000 elementary school students. Cooking classes are fun and positive experiences with healthy foods.

We use real food with real kids.

And they eat it! What’s our secret? Kids are more excited about tasting foods that they have washed, whisked, measured, mixed, sliced, diced, minced, mashed, torn, or tossed.

Our lessons are research-tested.

When kids help prepare healthy foods, they’re more likely to eat and enjoy them! Read more about the USDA-funded research conducted by Colorado State University.

Cooking matters.

We tell our students, “We take care of ourselves when we cook. We use math and science when we cook. We learn about our world when we cook.”

Our recipes are kid-tested and kid-approved.

Our recipes have been rigorously tested over the past 20 years with over 35,000 kids.

Our cooking lessons support academics.

Cooking with Kids provides hands-on opportunities for students to practice essential literacy and math skills. Supplemental activities are aligned with standards in Health, Science, Mathematics, and English Language Arts & Literacy.