Many people enjoy baking during the holidays. In fact, holiday baking is often party of a family’s tradition. It is NO secret that children love to bake! However, many parents are often overwhelmed with the extra amount of work that comes along with baking with children.
Here are some helpful tips when baking with kids:
- Get ingredients out and organized ahead of time. – It is amazing what kind of “trouble” children can get into when you are busy trying to locate ingredients and tools.
- Measure out the trickier ingredients. – Depending on the age of the children, you may wish to pre-measure all ingredients and place them in small dishes for easy pouring/adding.
- Set clear expectations. – Like with many activities with children, if you set clear expectations, you are setting yourself and your children up for success.
- Print off a recipe OR use a resealable baggie for electronic devices. – Just like I am a messy baker, so are children! Print off your recipe ahead of time so that your children can handle it and read it (or try to read it) independently. If you are using a tablet or electronic device to save paper, protect it in a resealable baggie ahead of time to prevent powder and sticky fingers from getting it dirty.
- Have children help to clean up. – While it may be easier to clean up the mess by yourself, you need to remember that you are setting them up for their future. Can you picture your kitchen ten years from now if your children were never part of the clean up?
Added Bonus: If there are parts to the baking that are easier done by an adult, be sure to have a clean cloth on hand for messy fingers and set up a simple activity for your children (like colouring pages) for them to do while you do the “adult only” part of the baking.
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Baking cookies with my mom – we do it every year and now that my little boy is old enough, he helps us to. So much fun
we still do christmas stockings / baking tip for this time of year, is I bake items that are freezer friendly
decorating gingerbread men with christmas songs really loud
Christmas songs REALLY LOUD is a must 😉
I like to bake a head and freeze things, cookie dough are the best to have on hand.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating my wheelchair with Christmas lights
That is awesome! I would love to see a photo!
Baking tip – bake ahead of time and freeze it. Then take it out the night before you need it.
A favorite tradition is when my nieces and nephews com over and help bake cookies.
I bake ahead whenever I can! That is a great tip 🙂
I am with a lot of other, bake ahead and freeze! My favourite holiday tradition is to make homemade chocolate with my hubby to give as gifts!
Favourite tradition since I was a child is taking a day with the family and baking.
Building a gingerbread house 🙂
my favourite tradition is every year we build a gingerbread house or something out of gingerbread with the kids, We have made a barn and silo,with animals, a cabin, a castle… we also make a chocolate house. i fill the gingerbread house with treats and small gifts and on New Years Day they get to smash it open!
i love making a gingerbread house with the kids
I love kris kringle! My baking tip is to keep it simple!
Great tip!
We have a gingerbread house decorating “competition” every year. as for baking tips, i’m not much of a baker!
That sounds like so much fun!
clean up as you go. thanks
Have fun while you are baking
our tradition is to open a stocking stuffer the night before.
no baking tips
We have our turkey on Christmas eve and then drive around looking at Christmas lights.
Our favourite holiday tradition is to ride the Christmas train every year with the kids
We always open pj’s on xmas eve. Lately my baking tip involves trying to do anything with a baby. To do my baking. I give my little guy some whisks and other tools that are kids safe and I put some sprinkles on his high chair and let him go crazy just trying to mom
Ve the sprinkles around
We watch the Grinch all together. It’s fun.
We get together with all our family the week before Christmas. there are about 80 aunts,uncles,cousins,nieces and nephews. Its pot luck and some of bring little gifts for the kids under 16. This year we have 27 kids under that age!
I bake cookies and a fruit cake.
Florence C
We bake a ton of holiday cookies in one day with my in-laws so everyone goes home with boxes of different types of cookies
I love decorating the Christmas tree with my family. My baking tip is to have fun and do it with family and friends.
dont burn anything LOL
elf on the shelf and advent calendar!
We bake some traditional Norwegian cookies 🙂
putting snacks out for Santa and the reindeer
Mine is going to candlelight services.
I mainly use pre-made
baking shortbread
Enjoy the holiday season and don’t stress about gifts!
Bake ahead!!
Our favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies while decorating the tree. My holiday tip? Don’t try to do so much!
I bake in November ahead of time. That way I am not trying to bake in the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Just freeze your cookies!!
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I love to bake Christmas cookies!
Favourite tradition is decorating the tree. I don’t have any tips for baking, just relax and enjoy it and it no big deal if your cookies don’t look like the ones on pinterest lol
I love letting the kids open one present on Christmas Eve. Its always pjs lol.
Baking cookies for friends and family!
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree – so much fun with kids!
Love to put up the christmas tree all together
Our family putting up the decorations as well as the Christmas tree together.
wrapping the presents up that I will be putting under the tree 🙂
We invite homeless people over for dinner. Make sure to bake lots of cookies.
have fun
We like watching movies.
Putting up the outdoor Christmas Lights together. While baking, listen to some Christmas music to get you in the spirit!
Making ornaments with the kids every year for the tree.
mine is going to my dads to enjoy hot cocoa
My favorite is playing games on Christmas eve
Baking tip – make multiple breads at once and freeze
We open al of our gifts Christmas Eve – that’s my favorite!
Love opening the one gift on Christmas Eve!
My baking tip is more of a sanity saver tip- if you are building a gingerbread house with the kiddos assemble the structure the night before so the royal icing has time to set!!
Our favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree.
My favorite Holiday tradition is having Santa come check on the kids on Christmas Eve, and then everyone getting up and opening presents.
Our favourite tradition is getting a fresh tree to decorate.
Cooking for my family and getting into the wine.
My favorite family tradition is everyone getting new PJ’s on Christmas Eve 🙂 My baking tip is to have fun trying new things, but don’t worry about the “goofs”!
My favorite holiday tradition is making gingerbread houses with the kids ..its always so much fun. My holiday tip is cook the bird In disposable roaster that can just be thrown away
Our favorite holiday tradition is picking out the tree, bringing it home and decorating it. It is a lot of fun
Bake when you have the time to enjoy it. We make gingerbread housed and personalize them
My baking tip is to buy extra eggs and butter!! I always run out!
My favorite tradition is baking cookies on Christmas Eve as family and friends stop by. Everyone helps, everyone eats.
You can always substitute with honey instead of sugar and it won’t change the taste if the food your baking. And my favorite family tradition is having a nice meal as a family we eat turkey and all the fixings than do gift exchange
We get together as a family and play fun games against each other for little gifts.
driving around looking at christmas lights on christmas eve and we try to prep all the food we can the night before
Just getting together to decorate the tree and looking at all the lights in the neighborhood.
We love to bake different cookies from around the world.
My favorite tradition is exchanging gifts with my hubby on Christmas Eve. <3 🙂 As for a holiday baking tip, I guess my best advice would be to only use recipes you've tried before. You wouldn't want to bake something that might turn out to be a flop if you're taking it to a holiday party!
Oh shoot, I see this is for Canadian residents only. Oh well! Good luck to my neighbors to the North! 🙂
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