Cooking Art: Easy Edible Art for Young Children Paperback – August 1, 1997

Great cooking resource to use in the classroom. I plan to use it especially during special holidays and themes. Worth the investment.

I bought this book in the hopes of to getting some creative ideas for a child development class that I teach. It is a bit elementary for them, but they were able to take the ideas presented and make their own projects to suit the requirements.

Warning: the following comment is likely to offend parents of 7 year old girls or anyone who liked this book. Sorry in advance.Let's just say that I can see a certain type of 7 year old girl liking these projects. The one that likes continually doing projects and being praised for accomplishments thus needs to turn her snacks into a demonstration as well.For the rest, this book is pretty darn dull with uninteresting and generally unhealthy recipes. Most of the things I would not want my children to eat.I was really really disappointed with this book. We have gotten other books from this author and generally enjoyed them so I went ahead and bought this one new, but it was not nearly as creative as any of her other books we own and for me it was a waste of money.Tip: buy some of her art books for creativity and leave meal and snack time to being thankful and enjoying real food.Sorry to the author- like I said I have enjoyed some of her other books, but this one was definitely a dud for us. Not interesting and not appetizing.At least buy it used. I donated mine to a charity thrift store.

I absolutely love this book! It is well organised, and has chapters on Shape & Form, Colour & Design, Building & Construction, and several sections at the end which link really well to classroom themes such as various plants, animals and transport projects (all edible!). I especially love the chapter on making numbers & letters through cooking - some great projects here. Although it's black and white and has line drawings, it is very well set out and easy to follow. An outstanding book of Early Childhood Teachers.

We all loved "Cooking Art" but especially my children. They loved looking through the illustrations, making the recipes and especially eating their "creations". One of their favorites was the "Zucchini Train". There's just something special about eating something that you yourself have created. Even my finicky eater licked his plate clean! The recipes are easy to do and if you don't have one of the ingredients it's easy to make substitutions. In fact, that's one of the best parts about the book, it gets you thinking how to be creative on your own. The possibilities are endless!

This book did not have any color pictures in it. It was all black and white drawings. It was not what I expected at all. It does have a lot of activities, but if I had seen the inside of the book first, I would not have bought it.

There are some very good ideas in the book, I just wish it were in full color. There are plenty of drawn explanations however so if you are just looking for instructions that are easy to follow then this book has it.

This is not what I expected, as it is more about presentation of food than using food as art. I expected to see recipes for edible playdough, finger paint, etc. However there are some cute ideas.