Working with Dough Cooking Camp for Kids – 24 Hands-On Baking Activities
37 Printable Pages • 24 Hands-On Dough Activities • Step-by-Step Pictures • 4 Recipe Cards • 10 Additional Recipe Ideas
Roll it, knead it, shape it and bake it! Working with Dough Cooking Camp gives young chefs hands-on experience making and working with dough while practicing practical baking skills.
Through 24 cooking activities, kids can explore different ways dough can be mixed, kneaded, rolled, shaped and baked. Step-by-step directions and supporting pictures help beginning cooks understand the process while they create recipes they can enjoy when they're finished.
Use the complete collection as a kids cooking camp or choose individual activities for homeschool cooking lessons, FCS/FACS, baking units, cooking clubs, after-school programs or family baking projects.
What's Included
- 37 printable pages
- 24 hands-on dough activities
- Step-by-step directions
- Supporting pictures for easier learning
- Activities for kneading, rolling, shaping and baking
- 4 printable recipe cards
- 10 additional dough recipe ideas
- Global bread ideas to explore
- Printable PDF digital download
Practice Essential Dough Skills
Working with dough gives kids an opportunity to experience how ingredients change as they're mixed, kneaded, rested, shaped and baked.
Depending on the activity, young cooks can practice skills such as:
- Reading and following a recipe
- Measuring ingredients
- Mixing dough
- Kneading
- Rolling dough
- Shaping and forming
- Dividing dough into portions
- Preparing dough for baking
- Following baking directions
- Kitchen organization and cleanup
24 Hands-On Cooking Activities
The heart of this resource is its 24 dough-based cooking activities. Kids learn through hands-on practice as they work directly with dough and see how different techniques affect the finished food.
The activities can be completed as a cooking camp or spread throughout a baking unit, semester or school year.
Step-by-Step Learning
Step-by-step instructions and pictures provide additional visual support for young chefs as they work through the recipes and techniques.
This makes the resource especially useful for beginning cooks and visual learners who benefit from seeing parts of the cooking process as they learn.
Explore Breads & Dough Around the World
The camp also introduces kids to global bread ideas, providing an easy way to extend a dough lesson into food, culture and geography.
Choose a bread from another part of the world, locate its country or region on a map and learn a little about how it is traditionally prepared or served.
10 More Dough Ideas to Try
After completing the featured activities, keep practicing with the included list of 10 additional dough recipe ideas.
These extra ideas provide more opportunities to use the techniques kids have practiced and can help extend the camp into additional cooking lessons.
4 Printable Recipe Cards
The collection also includes 4 recipe cards that can be printed for easy reference or used as student handouts.
Add them to a student's recipe binder or personal cookbook so favorite dough recipes can be made again later.
Turn It Into a Kids Cooking Camp
Use the activities to create a dedicated dough and baking camp, or select individual projects based on your schedule.
The flexible format works for:
- Kids cooking camps
- Homeschool cooking lessons
- FCS/FACS
- Baking units
- Life skills lessons
- Cooking clubs
- After-school programs
- Summer activities
- Family cooking projects
- Beginning baking lessons
Learning Beyond the Recipe
Hands-on dough activities can reinforce more than cooking techniques. Kids can also practice:
- Following a sequence
- Measuring accurately
- Reading recipe directions
- Using cooking vocabulary
- Observing changes in ingredients
- Fine-motor skills through rolling and shaping
- Patience while dough rests or bakes
- Cleaning and organizing a work area
Product Details
- 37 printable pages
- 24 dough activities
- 4 printable recipe cards
- 10 additional dough recipe ideas
- Global bread ideas
- Step-by-step directions
- Supporting pictures
- PDF digital download
Please Note
- This is a digital download; no physical book will be mailed
- Ingredients and cooking equipment are not included
- Cooking facilities are required for many activities
- Adult supervision should be provided based on the child's age, experience and activity
- Activities may involve ovens, hot pans, knives, appliances and other kitchen equipment
Digital Download
This is a digital printable product. Download your files after checkout and choose your first dough activity to begin.