Cook with Books
Reading and Cooking Activities for Kids

This Cook with Books page is a way to promote reading and cooking with your kids. These books are for preschool and young children. If you are looking for chapter books see this older readers cook and books section.

Need a planned cooking with books theme unit?

Cooking with Books Ebook Bundle

If you are looking for kids and teenage cookbooks look in our Best Kids Cookbooks for recommendations.

Reading with your kids is such a great learning and bonding time. Inspire a love of reading with your kids and prepare a kids recipe to elaborate on your reading and learning experience. These books are great for preschool up to 2nd -3rd grade depending on the book.

Try doing this for an afterschool program, preschool group, playgroup or just at home with your own kids. It is a lot of fun! For older kids who are readers of chapter books, try these cooking experiences-readers cook with books.

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Enjoy!

Young Readers Cook with Books Section

Apple Recipes Facts about Apples	Under the Sea Theme Recipes
Homemade Bread Omelet or Eggs Applesauce Pink Lemonade	Pancake Recipes
Home Theme Party	Mice Cookies Baking Cookies
Space Theme Recipes	Taco Recipes
Blueberry Muffins Blueberry Crisp	Muffin Recipes
Making Homemade Bread	Rainbow Fish Cookies
Green Eggs and Ham	Spinach Artichoke Dip
Gingerbread Recipes	Three Berry Jam
Fairy Tales Cook and Book Activities	Cooking with Bible Stories
Meatballs Spaghetti Meatball Cake	Carrot Soup Carrot Cake Smoothie
Spinach and Strawberry Salad Strawberry Cake	Green Milkshake
Broccoli Salad Any type of salad!	Dinosaur Fun Recipes
Pizza Party Pizza Recipes	Homemade Spaghetti Sauce
Tomato Soup	Flavored Popcorn Campfire Popcorn
Baking Cakes Cake Decorating	Spider Theme Recipes
Caterpillars and Insects Theme Recipes Caterpillar Cheese Ball	Apple Pizza Pie
Strawberry Shortcake	Pasta Recipes
Ice Cream Recipes	Homemade Bath Recipes
Farm Theme Recipes	Sandwich Ideas
Owl Theme Recipes	Penguin Theme
Snake Theme Recipes	Rainbow Recipes
Cupcake Recipes Cupcake Decorating Ideas	Banana Wraps
Mice Theme Recipes Soup Recipes	Fish sticks (ocean nibblers) Mashed potatoes (cloud fluff)

Need a planned cooking with books theme unit?

Turn a fun reading book into a cooking lesson with these book and cook ideas. There are so many more books to create into cooking fun. When you start reading you'll be surprised at all the opportunities that open up before you. You might even find books you've read many times will have kids cooking ideas in them you can use.

See our Readers Cook with Books Ideas

Bunny Cakes

by Stacia Peach (White Stone, Virginia)

Bunny Cakes By: Rosemary Wells This book is great for beginning cooks! Each page is a reminder of your 'grocery list' and wonderful for a compare/contrast literacy opportunity!

Mice Cookies

Using the recipe for mice cookies and the Give a Mouse a Cookie book worked great.

Popcorn Book and Cook

Cheese Popcorn

• 1 bag microwave popcorn
• 1-2 Tablespoons cheese powder

Pop popcorn in the microwave or on the stove as you prefer. Pour into bowl and sprinkle with cheese powder. Easy and delicious.
See more popcorn recipes here.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

See these coconut Recipes to go with the book.

Stone Soup

Today we read both books and I changed the title of stone soup to accommodate a cooking project. Ahead of time, I made stew in a crock pot, but during the reading of the story, Stone Stew.

I let each child place the ingredient listed in the story into a pot in the middle of the story area. After completing other projects, I had the children make biscuits to accompany the stew. Each child received a bowl of the crock pot stew, minus the stones, to eat with their biscuits. It was a lot of fun tying the story and the cooking activity together.

Caterpillar Cook and Books

Stone Soup

Cheese Ball Caterpillar

Make mini cheeseballs and align them into caterpillars for this cook and book combo

• 1 package 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 Cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon Lemon juice
• Pecans, chopped
• Red Peppers, chopped (optional)

In a bowl, add cream cheese, cheddar cheese, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice. Stir until cheeses are well blended together. If you'd like peppers, add these now. Add 1/4 Cup of chopped pecans. Mix together. Lay a sheet of wax paper on the counter. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. With your clean hands, form cheese mixture into small balls. Then roll in pecans. Create a caterpillar with your small cheese balls. You can eat immediately or chill in refrigerator. Serve with crackers.

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