by Laura Falin posted in Life

Happy holidays, everyone!
I hope you're enjoying your time with family and friends and having a lovely week of celebrating. I always find that everything leads up to a fever pitch on Christmas, and then we spend the rest of the week decompressing - hanging around in fuzzy clothes, playing in the snow, maybe going to see Christmas lights we didn't have time to visit yet. After a hectic first part of the month, I really like spending this week between Christmas and New Year's just taking it easy with the kids.
If we're home, we'll play games, or do puzzles...and I enjoy cooking with the kids, too. This is the perfect week for it, because we don't have to rush to get dinner on the table after school and everything else. We can dawdle, and stick our fingers in the batter, and turn up the music and have a good time in the kitchen together. Aside from fun family time, kids who cook tend to eat more varieties of foods, and it even introduces them to math and science concepts. Here are a few of our favorite cookbooks for kids - one of the things I love is that almost all of these books are spiral-bound, so they actually stay open to your recipe page, and you're not breaking the binding. Most of these books say they're for kids 5 and up, but if you're willing to do more work yourself, you can start them younger.

1.  Cooking With Curious Chef 
This cookbook contains 36 recipes for kids to make and also includes nutrition tips and food facts without b...