Cooking Games & Baking Sets - 12-Year Olds

Cooking is great fun and a great learning experience for kids 12 and up

Cooking activities for kids 12 and up are a great way to instill a love of cooking while teaching scientific principles. With our delicious selection of kids cooking sets and kids cookbooks, you'll have them eating up the science right along with the goodies. MindWare's exclusive Candy Chemistry set explores heat, phases of matter and more as your kids create sweet treats. The Playful Chef Deluxe Cooking Kit lets the youngest chefs explore food and measurements.

When it comes to cooking activities for kids, you'll find them at MindWare! Our exclusive Candy Chemistry set lets kids eleven and up learn about heat and phases of matter, crystallization and even triboluminescence with wintergreen candy. Your kids will have all the tools they need and a 48-page illustrated instruction book with 25 recipes/experiments. This kit doesn't come with any chemicals or ingredients; so you can choose what you feel is best.

The Playful Chef Deluxe Cooking Kit brings learning activities for your kids into the kitchen. With color coded measuring cups and spoons, kids can follow the recipe cards easily and this amazing kids cooking set strengthens literacy, mathematical concepts and promotes responsibility. The Playful Chef kid's cookbook has over 30 kid-tested recipes to create, while promoting literacy, math and nutrition.

The Playful Chef Bakeology and Fizzy Drinks Science Kits treats kids to the science behind some of their favorite foods and drinks. Kids will conduct experiments with ingredients to adjust the texture, flavor and fizziness their creations. These kids cooking sets strengthen logical thinking, math, science and time management skills, while yielding delicious outcomes.

Science toys for kids come in all shapes and types. Cooking is a great way to build an understanding of basic chemistry and math. Cook It in a Cup! and Christmas in a Cup! are chef-designed sets that feature color photos and easy-to-follow instructions for creating dozens of individually-sized treats. Each set includes six colorful, nonstick silicone baking cups for creating little lasagnas, quiches, tiny fruit tarts and a host of Holiday breakfast and main course recipes.

Snack Science Kits include the Potato Chip Science and Pop Bottle Science kits. Merging creative fun and kids' favorite snacks, these completely safe activities draw on lessons from ecology, biology, forensics, acoustics and more. This set makes a very unique gift!

Kids can even create their own treats for their four-legged best friends with the Make Your Own Cat or Dog Treat Kits. The treats will make a perfect reward when the kids train them with the Make Your Own Doggy or Kitty Day Camp Kit.