The Creative Kitchen

What is The Creative Kitchen™?

The Creative Kitchen™ teaches children about food and how to cook in a fun, safe, and educational manner. The multi-media curriculum, that targets children ages four and older, includes a series of books, television shows, DVDs, and related products that present educational content through recreational food-related activities. The founder, Cricket Azima, inspires children to express themselves creatively through cooking and the arts. Interestingly, the research I conducted for my master’s thesis – entitled “Children’s Cooking Classes: An Alternative Method to Enhance Learning” – indicated that children retain more (of the educational content) of a lesson, when they use all of their senses, as opposed to being lectured to, in the traditional classroom format.

Mission Statement

The goal of The Creative Kitchen™ is to produce a positive relationship between children and food – in turn creating healthy eating habits for life. While practicing basic cooking skills, children also learn and enhance other traditional disciplines, such as reading, mathematics, science, social sciences, nutrition, music, art, history, and geography. In addition, children strengthen their motor skills, self-esteem, socialization, cultural understanding, teamwork, independence, and personal responsibility.