As you look at the list of suggestions below, be sure to consider each child’s personality, learning style, and typical level of patience. Do your best to choose the job(s) that best suits each child.
Meal Planning Jobs
Jobs for preschoolers
- Gather the meal planning tools
- Gather the cookbooks
- Hang the plan in the kitchen
- Return the tools
- Choose foods
Jobs for older kids
- Check off food items on the Inventory
- Write down the meal plan
- Navigate Health eKitchen
- Look through cookbooks
- Choose the cook method
- Coordinate coupons
- Find sale items in-store flyer
Meal Prep Jobs
Jobs for preschoolers
- Grabbing ingredients from storage
- Counting ingredients
- Setting the table
- Locating foods by color
- Spreading
- Opening doors, containers, packages
- Closing doors, containers, packages
- Scooping
- Pouring
- Stirring
- Plating
- Tearing or breaking
- Sprinkling
- Washing fruits/vegetables
- Tossing waste (into compost/trash)
- Timing
- Taste-testing
Jobs for older kids
- Plating
- Chopping
- Peeling
- Storing
- Recycling
- Composting
- Washing dishes
- Loading dishwasher
- Stirring
- Toasting
- Pouring
- Mixing
- Rinsing dishes
- Gathering
- Packing
- Sealing
- Unpacking
- Measuring
These may include your family calendar, list of family favorites, paper coupons, store sales flyer, and grocery list template.
What is compost?
Composting happens when organic matter such as coffee grounds, vegetable peels, apple cores, eggshells, stale bread, and even paper plates, decompose until they turn into a soil-like state.