9 fun cooking games apps for kids

Playing in the kitchen and inviting the children to help us shell the peas, pour the ingredients, knead the flour and more are important gestures because they not only amuse the children, but they are also useful for stimulating fine motor skills and teaching them  control of their own body and its movements. So if your kids like this kind of activity, get them involved whenever you can.

But if cooking with children and making them mess with their hands is an activity NOT replaceable by a simple game on a tablet, to satisfy their desire to “cook” and tinker with technological devices, sometimes you can also use apps with cooking games for kids or online cooking games. 

For further information: children and video games: how to manage them

Cooking games for kids: 9 fun apps to download

On the web you can find apps with free and paid cooking games , but they are so many and often very similar, that you can lose hours to find the right one. So below I will list some very nice and fun cooking games apps for kids , which will surely stimulate children’s interest in cooking and food. Some are available for iOS, others for Android and not all are in Italian, but they are still quite simple and intuitive applications. Children will be able to use them on their own, although I recommend that you play with them or be present to supervise the activity especially if the children are small.

One detail to pay attention to is that the free version applications may contain advertisements or may not be complete. To avoid surprises, it is better to opt for the paid version (they cost very few euros).

1. Fun Food 2

Let’s start with an educational game for the little ones that takes place in the kitchen . Since children are small, they are not asked to follow recipes, but to place nice foods on the shelves according to their shapes, prepare biscuits of different geometric shapes and sizes, cut fruit and vegetables into smaller pieces following the lines, arrange the food in containers of the same color.

In short, a whole series of educational games (also complete with sound effects) that will help children learn new things quickly and fun.
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2. My Little Cook

My Little Cook is an original and pretty app both for the type of educational game and for the captivating graphics. The game teaches children the pleasure of cooking and contains healthy and balanced recipes designed by a nutritionist and numerous information sheets. There are recipes in the game to prepare delicious dishes (snacks and sweets) that can be performed not only in the game but also in real life!

Thanks to this application, children will also be able to learn the names of ingredients and kitchen utensils and take pictures dressed as a chef!
Texts and voices are in French, English, German and Italian, to learn new languages ​​while playing!

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3. Kids Kooking Cooking in the kitchen

This app is very simple and cute and suitable for children up to 8 years old. In this cooking game there are 9 recipes to prepare. You can choose to cook fries and a hamburger, donuts, soup, spaghetti with meatballs, sushi, pizza, sorbet, cake, cocktail.

Children will enjoy cutting, mixing, pouring, cooking. At the end of many dishes there is also the possibility of decorating them with different toppings. Available on:

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4. Toca Kitchen 2

This is a very nice and fun app with really funny characters . Children will be able to choose the ingredients and cook them. During the preparation of the dishes you can slice, boil, fry, cook, blend and put in the microwave.

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5. KidECook

With this app, children will be able to make numerous recipes without getting dirty and in an equipped kitchen! Kid-eCook allows you to learn what foods are, how to dose them and how to combine them for cooking.

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6. Dr Panda’s restaurant 1-2-3

Doctor Panda’s restaurant is part of a successful series of very well known and appreciated Apps for children.
Thanks to this app, children will be able to enjoy managing the kitchen of a restaurant and will have the freedom to decide what they want to prepare by choosing from many ingredients. Thanks to this app, children will learn the basics for preparing many types of dishes, they will become familiar with kitchen utensils and will be able to understand from the customers’ facial expressions if the cooked dishes were to their liking.

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7. Street food kitchen chef

Street food kitchen chef is an app suitable for the whole family and is set not in the home kitchen, not in the kitchen of a restaurant, but in the kitchen of a small pickup truck! In fact, the children will have to prepare many different types of street food (which have been very successful lately).

It’s free and kids love it!

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8. Cooking Mama Let’s cook

Cooking mama is one of the best-known cooking games for kids (and not only), but also one of the most advanced. In fact, in addition to following the recipes to prepare dishes, the children must overcome levels of difficulty.

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9. Jojo’s Kitchen! in Italy

Maybe moms won’t like this app much but kids love it. The protagonist of this app, decidedly out of line, is called Jojo and is a crazy cook who combines a lot of disasters in the kitchen and doesn’t behave according to the rules.

Don’t expect an educational app because it’s not, but it’s very fun and well done.
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These are just some of the best apps for kids with cooking games that you can download, although you can also find many others on the web.
However, if your children really like playing in the kitchen, you can buy a good children’s recipe book and have fun preparing real dishes together!