Approximately once each week in our morning kindergarten session, students cook and/or taste something that begins with the letter of the week. Most of the following recipes have been accumulated, tried, tested, and yes -even tasted by teachers at the Plainfield Kindergarten Center, who have been successfully cooking with kindergarten students for years.

Recipes Aa-Cc Ants on a Log Marshmallow Ant Individual Apple Pies Applesauce Banana Boats Bear's Berry Blizzards Butter Candy Cane Cookies Chicka Chicka Coconut Snack Christmas Trees Recipes Dd - Hh Dad's Day Donuts Easter Story Cookies Elephant Ears Fall Tree Feelings Faces Firefighter Ladder Graham Cracker Flags Esau's Fuzzy Fruit Arms Green Eggs and Ham Honey Hermits Recipes Ii - Ll Ice Cream for One Count Kebobs Ladybugs Lion Chow     Recipes Mm - Pp Edible Manger Melt in Your Mouth Muffins Munchy Mouse Bread Nativity Nest Cookies Bird Nests Painted Toast Peanut Butter   Recipes Qq - Ss Queen of Heart Tarts Raven Cookies Edible Reindeer Resurrection Rolls Snowman on a Stick Spider Snacks Super Summer Sunflower Snacks   Recipes Tt - Zz Toothy Apple Smiles Unbelievable Upside Down Cake Valentine Vegetable Pizza Yeast Bread Yummy Snowballs Zebra Brownies Zoo Animal Cages

When cooking and following a rebus recipe, students practice...

• following directions
• measuring
• counting
• fine motor skills

Picture Recipes - recipes with simple pictures!
The ABC's of Snacking - ideas for each letter of the alphabet
Cafe ZOOM - recipes from the children's show ZOOM
Recipe Picture Sheets - from Making Learning Fun
Activity TV Cooking with Kids
Alphabet Cooking Cards by Cheryl Olmsted (Fearon Teacher Aids, 1990) ISBN  0-8224-0454-0
Cooking Art: Easy Edible Art for Young Children by Mary Ann Kohl (Gryphon House, 1997) ISBN 0-87659-184-5
Teaching Snacks by Gayle Bittinger (Warren Publishing House, 1994)  ISBN 0-911019-82-0
Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up by Mollie Katzen (Tricycle Press, 1994) ISBN: 1883672066