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[quote=Anonymous]3 yo twins who have been helping me cook for about 6 months, so we started about where you are now.  When there are meals or courses that they can help, I measure things out, put them in bowls and then they each get a bowl of something and instructions.

For example, they help me make pancakes on weekends.  I measure out the various ingredients and put them in small bowls.  I crack the eggs into a measuring cup.  I will put the honey into the bowl (just too difficult and messy) and then they each get a whisk and they alternate, A will whisk while B adds his bowl, then B will whisk while A adds his bowl.  I get an extra large bowl out so that they can be vigorous when whisking.   They have helped my wife make cookies and she does the same thing.  She also makes breakfast muffins with them and they do the same as with the pancakes.  They have helped me make pizza.  I put the dough down and then they help put sauce, cheese and toppings on the pizza.  We also have a toy kitchen that is in the eat-in area of our kitchen.  Sometimes when Daddy or Mommy is cooking on the stove (the one place they can't help), they can cook at the same time in their kitchen.

For dinner, they sometimes help with making salads, breaking up iceberg lettuce, taking spring mix veggies out of the bag and putting in bowls, after we cut up veggies, they can add them to the salad.  Mom and Dad and twin A eat salad, twin B doesn't, but still helps make salads sometimes.  They help move items from the cooking area to the table and help set the table.  As long as we can find things that don't involve knives, the oven, or stove, we'll try to get them to help.[/quote]

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