Children's cookery classes

[pollya]

Anyone found any children's (pre-school or under 10s) cookery classes that they liked? Or any cooking-themed parties? I'm interested to know what worked well and what didn't?

If not, would do you think your children would enjoy it? What do you think would make it work? Keen to hear any feedback or ideas you might have. Cheers!

I'm interested in responses to this. I looked into running children's cooking classes a year or so ago, but the red tape was horrendous. It's that double whammy of working with food and children, and all the safety regulations they entail. I'd still love to do it, and I'd be keen to hear from anyone who does.

Sorry - also meant to say pizza parties have been most successful. Kids make dough, then roll it out and do the toppings.

My Ds has been to a couple of cookery classes run by the purple kitchen company.He really enjoyed it, the staff are great and the classes are aged related and are of no more than eight in numbers.

Think there's a company called Sticky Fingers that do this type if thing.

a nursery near me runs something like this on saturday mornings, as does the gym (David Lloyd)

Both bascially consist of smearing brightly coloured icing on tecos value fairy cakes and adding jelly beans.

Nothing wrong with that per se, but i don't think it teaches them anything about cooking. I would love a class where they learnt to make yummy savory meals and, if they're going to make cakes, did them properly from scratch.

To do this you need an oven, just like for real cooking.

Thanks for feedback so far, interested to hear about the red tape. I guess you have to be checked out for food health and safety and also a police check - was there anything else too?

I'm thinking of setting classes up in St Albans - has anyone heard of any in this area?

Sticky Fingers is in Wilts I htink. Not sure if they ahve other branckes.