5 Benefits Of Taking Children To Make Christmas Cakes, One Of Them Stimulating Fine Motors

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JAKARTA - The moment of making Christmas cakes is a fun thing for your little one. The flour melts, the dough feels chewy in the hand, the colorful cake ingredients that catch the eye, the smell of margarine, vanilla, pandan, chocolate, and others. Kids love it!

Well, now that you are a mother, will you forbid your little one to make cakes? For fear that the kitchen will fall apart after the burning process is complete? However, the benefits are numerous and it's a shame to pass up.

The following VOI summarizes the benefits of taking your little one to the kitchen to make Christmas cakes.

Fine Motor Stimulation

Children's fine motor skills can be trained by making cakes. They can practice pincer grasp by picking up small ingredients such as choco chips and also practice tripod grip by using cookie cutters.

Eye and Hand Coordination Exercise

Children can practice coordinating their eyes and hands by cooking. You can ask them to spoon the flour or sugar into the bowl. Or have them print a cake.

Mathematical Concepts

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Cooking Christmas cookies is an easy way to learn math. You can invite him to count the number of eggs or milk boxes needed. In addition, you can also teach them the ratio of quantities, for example, more which ingredients are included in a tablespoon and a teaspoon, or more water or coconut milk is needed to make a recipe.

Following Directions

Children will learn to follow recipe directions. In this way, discipline and thoroughness will be trained on them.

Learn Forms and Vocabulary

Children will learn shapes from the cooking process. For example, kastengel cakes are rectangular in shape, nastar cakes are round, and so on. You can also use various cute prints of celestial bodies like the moon and stars. It will also be a means of enriching their vocabulary.