ClearCook guides
Guides for cooking with kids
Choose recipes, build cooking confidence, understand visual cards and find the right ClearCook products for your child, kitchen or party bag.
Start Cooking With Kids
Start Cooking With Kids
Choose a first recipe, build safe independence and match kitchen jobs to your child's stage.
Best First Recipes for Kids
A practical decision guide for choosing no-cook, hob-supported and first-bake recipes by confidence level.
Read guide Calmer family cookingKids Cooking Independently
How to give children aged 6-11 real kitchen responsibility while adults still own heat, knives and safety checks.
Read guide Skill buildingCooking Skills for Kids by Age
A stage-by-stage guide to washing, measuring, mixing, cracking eggs, safe cutting and supervised heat.
Read guide Choosing what to cookRecipes by Age
Choose visual recipes by readiness, confidence and the amount of adult support available today.
Read guideVisual Recipe Support
Visual Recipe Support
Understand picture-led recipes, wipe-clean cards and visual cooking prompts for different learners.
Visual Recipes for Kids
What visual recipes are, why pictures reduce reading load and how children can follow steps more independently.
Read guide Card-based learningCooking Flash Cards for Kids
An explainer for cooking flash cards, visual recipe cards, action words and classroom or SEN cooking prompts.
Read guide Messy kitchensWipe-Clean Recipe Cards for Kids
Why physical recipe cards can work better than phones when hands, counters and ingredients get messy.
Read guide Attention supportVisual Cooking for ADHD
Ideas for using visible recipe steps, short routines and completion prompts when attention shifts.
Read guide Predictable routinesVisual Cooking for Autism
How predictable picture recipes can support children who benefit from clear expectations and familiar sequences.
Read guideBuying & Gifting
Buying & Gifting
Compare ways to teach cooking, build a card collection and choose useful baking gifts or party favours.
Best Ways to Teach Kids to Cook
A fair comparison of recipe cards, classes, subscription boxes, school programmes and parent-led cooking.
Read guide Party planningUseful Kids' Party Bag Fillers
Practical party bag ideas that are useful, affordable and not just sweets or plastic toys.
Read guide Buying cardsBuild Your Collection
Start with one card or a starter set, then add recipes around your child's next skill or favourite food.
Read guideMore Practical Guides
More Practical Guides
Quick answers for specific parent searches: ages, rainy days, SEND support, gifts and confidence-building.
What Can a 5 Year Old Cook?
Find safe cooking jobs and first recipes for 5 year olds, with visual recipe ideas and adult supervision tips.
Read guide Practical guidanceWhat Can a 6 Year Old Cook?
Practical cooking ideas for 6 year olds, including child-led jobs, visual recipe cards and adult safety boundaries.
Read guide Practical guidanceWhat Can a 7 Year Old Cook?
See what 7 year olds can cook with adult supervision, from pancakes and cookies to simple lunches and visual recipe cards.
Read guide Practical guidanceRecipes Kids Can Make by Themselves
Find child-led recipe ideas kids can make themselves, plus the adult safety boundaries that still matter.
Read guide Practical guidanceCooking Activities for 6 Year Olds
Practical cooking activities for 6 year olds, including pancakes, oats, cookies, visual recipe cards and confidence-building jobs.
Read guide Practical guidanceScreen-Free Cooking Activities for Kids
Screen-free cooking activities for children using visual recipe cards, real ingredients and simple confidence-building kitchen jobs.
Read guide SEND supportVisual Cooking Activities for SEND Children
Practical visual cooking activities for SEND children, using picture steps, predictable routines and adult safety support.
Read guide Attention supportADHD-Friendly Cooking With Clear Steps
ADHD-friendly cooking ideas for children using clear visual steps, short recipes and practical parent support.
Read guide Gifting ideasGifts for Children Who Like Cooking
Gift ideas for children who like cooking, including visual recipe cards, starter sets, aprons, tools and confidence-building activities.
Read guide Gifting ideasCooking Activities for Grandchildren
Simple cooking activities grandparents can do with grandchildren, from pancakes and cookies to screen-free visual recipe cards.
Read guide Practical guidanceCooking Activities for a 5 Year Old Boy
Practical, non-stereotyped cooking activities for a 5 year old boy, with safe jobs, visual recipes and first recipe ideas.
Read guide Practical guidanceCooking Activities for a 5 Year Old Girl
Useful cooking activities for a 5 year old girl, with safe first jobs, visual recipe cards and confidence-building recipe ideas.
Read guide Practical guidanceCooking Activities for a 7 Year Old Boy
Cooking activities for a 7 year old boy, including child-led recipes, visual steps, safe boundaries and practical first cooking wins.
Read guide Practical guidanceCooking Activities for a 7 Year Old Girl
Cooking activities for a 7 year old girl, with child-led recipes, visual recipe cards and safe adult support.
Read guide Activity ideasRainy Day Cooking Activities for Kids
Rainy day cooking activities for kids, including pancakes, cookies, oats and visual recipe card ideas for home.
Read guide Activity ideasSummer Holiday Cooking Activities for Kids
Summer holiday cooking activities for kids, with visual recipes, simple challenges and screen-free ideas for long days at home.
Read guide Practical guidanceBuild Confidence Through Cooking
How children can build confidence through cooking, using visual steps, simple recipes and visible progress.
Read guide Practical guidanceActivities for Children Who Want More Independence
Practical home activities for children who want more independence, including child-led cooking and visual recipe cards.
Read guide Practical guidanceStep-by-Step Visual Instructions for Children at Home
How step-by-step visual instructions help children follow home tasks, cooking routines and recipe cards with less adult prompting.
Read guide SEND supportCooking Life Skills for SEND Children
How cooking can support life skills for SEND children, with visual recipes, predictable routines and safe adult support.
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