Easy Recipes for Kids

No Bake Cookies

What you will need:

1. A cookie tray
2. Wax paper
3. 3 cups of oats
4. 1 ½ cups of sugar
5. 4 teaspoons of cocoa
6. ½ cup of peanut butter
7. ½ cup of butter

Directions:

1. Put butter, cocoa, and sugar into a saucepan.
2. Warm and mix until it melts.
3. After it is melted add peanut butter and mix together.
4. Ask an adult to pour the peanut butter chocolate mixture into the oats.
5.  Mix all together carefully.
6. Spoon the mixture on to wax paper on a cookie sheet.
7. Place the cookie sheet in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.
8. Take them out of the refrigerator and enjoy.

Popcorn Questions

1. What are the names of four different kinds of corn? 
2. What is the outside coating of corn kernels called?
3. What does the perry carp protect inside the kernel?
4. What is the endosperm made up of? 
5. What does the endosperm provide for the kernel?
6. What is the germ?
7. What does the germ contain? 
8. Do all four different kinds of corn pop when heated? 
9. What is inside the kernel of corn that turns into steam when it is heated?
10. What does the steam expand inside the kernel?
11. What eventually happens to the endosperm when heated?
12. What do we call the kernel when it explodes?

Lets Make Popcorn

Need: 

1. Three Tablespoons of oil
2. ½ Cup of Popcorn Kernels

Directions:

1. Pour Three Tablespoons of oil into a pan.
2. Pour ½ Cup of popcorn kernels into the pot.
3. Put a lid on the pot.
4. Heat the pot on high
5. Shake the pot from time to time to make sure the kernels don’t burn on the bottom.
6. Add desired toppings to your popcorn.

How to Make Forest Fruit Salad

Need:

1. Strawberries
2. Cherries
3. Raspberries
4. Gooseberries
5. Blackberries
6. Sugar
7. Oranges

Directions:  

1. Wash and shuck the strawberries, put in a bowl.
2. Wash the Cherries put them in the bowl.  Remember to not eat the pit of the cherry.
3. Wash the blackberries and add them to the bowl. Be careful not to strain yourself with the blackberries.
4. Wash the gooseberries and add them to the bowl.
5. Wash the raspberries and add them to the bowl.
6. Squeeze the juice of the oranges.
7. Mix the berries.
8. Sprinkle a little bit of sugar on the berries and the orange juice.
9. Ask an adult to put the fruit salad in the refrigerator for one hour.