Every Monday night is family fun time in our home, we really look forward to it and my three boys absolutely love it.
We played Family MasterChef and it was a LOT of fun!! We played the Mystery Box Challenge – Here you provide each child with the same box of ingredients and they need to create a dish using only those ingredients. We gave the kids simple ingredients – e.g. eggs, cheese, onion, mushrooms, tomatoes. This has to be done with close supervision and they will require you to be assistant chefs depending on their age. We helped our youngest one to cut the vegetables the way he wanted.
You could also have another round which is the Invention Test where they have to invent a dish relevant to a theme using a core ingredient. E.g Chicken could be the core ingredient and the theme could be Italian.
For our mystery box challenge, the time limit was 30 minutes – you could decide on the time depending on the ingredients and cooking time required. The judges were mom, dad and granddad and they were evaluated on Taste, Creativity and Presentation. Our youngest son finished in 20 mins and emerged as the MasterChef!! It was a surprise to all!
Family Fun time has opened our eyes to see how wonderfully gifted our children are. As parents, let us rejoice in their gifts, not get too focused on academics and lose out on their growing years. Have fun!! If you have not scheduled family fun time with your kids, please do! It’s changed my relationship with my three boys!
Happy Family funtime.
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