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 with a free recipe Open the Cooking Passport Shop wipe-clean cards

ClearCook visual recipe cards hanging on a fridge — Use the guides to move from reading about cooking with kids to choosing a recipe or card.

Start Cooking With Kids

Choose a first recipe, build safe independence and match kitchen jobs to your child's stage.

First-time cooks

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 cooking

Kids Cooking Independently

How to give children aged 6-11 real kitchen responsibility while adults still own heat, knives and safety checks.

Read guide Skill building

Cooking 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 cook

Recipes by Age

Choose visual recipes by readiness, confidence and the amount of adult support available today.

Read guide

Visual Recipe Support

Understand picture-led recipes, wipe-clean cards and visual cooking prompts for different learners.

Visual 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 learning

Cooking Flash Cards for Kids

An explainer for cooking flash cards, visual recipe cards, action words and classroom or SEN cooking prompts.

Read guide Messy kitchens

Wipe-Clean Recipe Cards for Kids

Why physical recipe cards can work better than phones when hands, counters and ingredients get messy.

Read guide Attention support

Visual Cooking for ADHD

Ideas for using visible recipe steps, short routines and completion prompts when attention shifts.

Read guide Predictable routines

Visual Cooking for Autism

How predictable picture recipes can support children who benefit from clear expectations and familiar sequences.