Cooking Around the World | 50 Visual Recipes for Speech Therapy, Cooking Groups & Life Skills | PreK-3rd

Okay, real talk — my cooking groups run on these pages. I got tired of printing “recipes” that were just walls of text and watching my kids’ eyes glaze over, so I made a whole year of visual recipes instead. Fifty of them. Ten for spring, ten for summer, ten for fall, ten for winter, plus ten you can pull out any time of year. Every single one fits on one page, with a little picture for every ingredient and every step.

Each recipe is just four steps with cute, flat cartoon pictures, so even my non-readers can follow along with a little help. And the “adult handles the hot stuff” steps are called out right on the page (“Adult uses oven!”, “Adult boils!”), so nobody has to guess who does what.

Here’s what I actually use these pages for, besides the obvious cooking fun: food and country vocabulary (each page has a little “A taste of …” line, so sneaky social studies slips in), following directions, sequencing and retelling, answering and asking questions, requesting, commenting, basic concepts — all while making something the kids get to eat at the end. Motivation is not a problem with this one, trust me.

What you’re getting: 53 letter-size (8.5×11) pages — a cover, two contents pages, and the 50 recipe pages, all numbered so your binder stays sane. Print it, hole-punch it, done. It also works beautifully as send-home practice, a classroom cooking-day centerpiece, or a push-in activity for mixed groups.

Fair heads-up: you’ll want an adult around for anything involving heat, and maybe extra napkins. Always extra napkins.

Hope your kids love making these as much as mine do!