To ask what age kids can make a brew?

[hawaiianhal]

Got to be getting close to it now surely 🙏🙏🙏

I remember my sister making me a cup of tea on my third birthday. She would have been four and a half.

NB I wouldn’t drink it because Mummy didn’t make it.

My 8 year old has just started making them. We have a boiler tap though, so doesn’t have to lift heavy kettle with boiling water in it.

8/9. Pretty sure that's when I trained mine 😁. Novelty of doing it wore off though 🙄.

Mine is 8 and makes a cracking brew. Better than his dad! He loves it and always brings me one at the weekend. He’s a keeper!

Early 9? Can’t say he’s very reliable though...

Novelty wore off here too. They've not made a cup all pandemic.

I'm over cautious because I got badly burned when I was 10 by knocking a cup of boiling water over me, so it's 12 in my house.

We used to teach it at cubs so I would say 8 is definitely old enough if they can manage the weight of a kettle

My 9yo and 7yo both can, but I dont like them using the kettle when I'm not at hand.

Very much depends on the child. I'd say 7 or 8, possibly when it was my careful younger son. My elder son is a teenager now and I'm not sure he's predictable with a kettle even now! Younger son likes a cup thought, so I do get quite a few made (he's nearly 12 now)

My DD made me a cup of tea when I smashed my toe on the door frame and was bleeding all over the kitchen floor. We moved from that house when she was 8, so she was 7 or 8 then.

I learned at about 8, but there is no way I would let my 9 year old use the kettle. He is quite clumsy though so not sure when I will let him.

My 9yo has for a couple of years. My 7yo only under supervision as she's shorter than her sister was and has tiny hands.

The old Brownie's hostess badge (c. 1980s) used to require you to make a cuppa and that would have been way under ten (and probably involved a doily, cut cake and a warmed pot to boot!)

6 now 7 but tall and strong for his age and has to ask first so I can keep an eye on him and make sure the younger children are nowhere near.

We used to teach the ones who didn't already know how to do it at Brownies, so 7 upwards. At 7, they'd most likely do everything except lifting the kettle once it had been boiled. By 8-9, they were big enough to be able to lift it safely.

Admittedly, we were teaching them to make a pot of tea with tea leaves rather than multiple mugs and a hot teabag to retrieve, so it was one movement to pour the boiling water, but I remembered when I was a Brownie how surprised I was that others didn't know how to do it (although I never liked using the Russell Hobbs metal electric kettle that much, compared to the old whistler my granddad kept on the range).

My DD makes herself hot choc in the microwave.

SS15 needs instructions how to make tea

When they went to high school I taught them but they don’t drink hot drinks but they know how too if they change their minds.

My 6 year old can make one with supervision, so she might make one whilst I'm making breakfast or lunch.

I use to make my mum a cuppa from about the age of 7/8, especially when she was stuck feeding my little sister.

I did my hostess badge as my first badge at brownies at just 7 and I knew how to make a cup of tea at that point so I maybe learnt at 6?

Dd1 is 9 & can use the tassimo. Actually boiling water & pouring it. I'm sure she would manage but has a tendency to clumsiness so I think we'll leave it for now!

My son started at 9. But I also remember doing hostess badge at brownies about 7 years old. But it was supervised.

@Connieston

I earned my hostess brownies badge early 1980s and can confirm it definitely involved in a warmed pot (which I still warm now on the rare occasions I make a pot) 😂😂. It went well with my needlework and toymaker badges!

This thread inspired me to teach DS10 to make me a cup of tea. It's also on the list for one of his cub badges.

Spilt tea all over the kitchen floor and work top! thankfully he moved out of the way so didn't scald him!!

Think we need a little more practice with supervision

7 for a brew.
8 for full cooked breakfast.
9 (with a friend) 3 course dinner for 7.
Thank you scouting!