— Sarah Kim Senor

Yeah, I have taught hundreds of cooking classes for kids. I think that the best way to be able to start off is to know the demographic once again. So we were talking earlier about um, you know, having live classes. So if you're doing live classes for kids, uh, you have to be able to think about what you can do for the cooking class to keep them entertained. It's very different from adults, although you have to keep them entertained just as much. Um, but uh, you have to be able to give them things they can do themselves and that can be the challenging part of doing kids classes. Are they old enough to hold like a plastic ser knife? You know, are they able to chop with those things? Are they old enough to use a real knife? Um, you know, are there things where you just want to be able to have them dump and pour into the top of something like a blender or a food processor? Then they push the button and see it all blend up like a pesto or something like that where they can do, you know, tearing off of basil leaves and like, you know, dump and pour kind of recipes instead of doing all the chopping of those things too. So those are some of the big things you want to kind of think about is how old the kids are, how you keep them entertained as well. Um, and then the, the how much you charge with that kind of comes along with that as the cost of your ingredients and your time as well. But the biggest thing for getting started is just to think of a couple different classes that you can do that are gonna keep the kids at the age demographic you're looking at, entertained if they're little kids, think about things that they can just pull off things and put 'em into stuff if they're older, if they're like teenage level like you know, it's great for them to be able to use real knives and learn real techniques. Uh, it's a good thing for them to be able to learn um, uh, all kinds of different techniques at that age. Um, you know, my kids are a little different being, you know, my kids, they cook often in the kitchen. Um, and they're used to using, you know, real equipment at four and 6-year-old. But it's something we've kind of worked up to gradually. Um, my youngest who's four loves to bake and just kind of, you know, anything baking related. She wants to be able to get in there and stir everything and pour all the things in the molds and stuff like that as well too. And she loves that kind of thing. Um, my oldest is more, not as much into the baking aspect, but loves to be able to kind of chop things up and just leave the chopped up stuff and I'll use it into a dish and that's just fine, you know, so kind of think about that as well too, on what skill level the kids have the gym might be cooking for. Because four and six year olds of some other person will be completely different than the ones that I have. And you have to kind of think about that and talk to parents before you actually do the classes.