Cooking in a Can (Acitvities for Kids)
by Kate White
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Book Summary Information
Author: Kate WhiteIllustrator: Debra Dixon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-21
ISBN: 1586858149
Number of pages: 64
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Product features:
- Great Recipes
- Great Outdoor Projects
- Beautifully illustrated
Book Reviews of Cooking in a Can (Acitvities for Kids)
Book Review: Very cute, and useful too
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a really cute and useful book. It has a lot of color illustrations to make it very attractive for a child to read. Also, the concept of cooking over your campfire -- or over several different types of home-made grills that they teach you how to make -- is fun and different. This actually seems to be book two of a series -- the first looks like it's called "Cooking on a Stick, Campfire recipes for kids" by Linda White.
Anyway, the chapters are as follows:
Planning and Packing (make a cooking apron)
Setting up Camp (with a craft for making a banner for your site)
Campires (make a wood carrier out of a sweatshirt, and make some different kinds of fire starters)
Cooking on Outdoor Stoves (make a tin-can grill, canyon sandwiches with English muffins, recipe for asparagus "forests")
Cooking in a (full-sized) garbage can (make a garbage can cooker, make a small "buddy" burner, pizza soup recipe, apple stampede recipe [which is just apple sauce])
Cooking in a paper bag or paper cup (recipe for rise 'n' shine breakfast [bacon and eggs in a bag], chocolate on a stick)
Cooking in Leaves and other foods (bean burgers recipe, bloomin' muffins [muffins you cook in orange peels! how cool!]
Hot rock cooking (sunrise toast and hot rock chicken)
Pit Cooking (fondue and cake)
Solar oven cooking (veggie pie and cookies with granola)
Spit cooking (mushrooms and kebobs)
Dutch oven cooking (stew and cake)
The recipes seem to be well explained and simple enough for kids who are the correct age to actually read the book. (Amazon lists ages 4-8, which from the kid-style illustrations seems right on.) The gimmick of cooking in the woods is fun and safety instructions are included and explained. For example, they explain what makes a good rock to cook on! And they include a long list of supplies and safety equipment, even explaining how to properly -- and safely -- douse a fire. They also cover "what is safe drinking water?" and how to build the perfect campfire.
For those of you who are Family Fun magazine fans, (I appreciate their crafts and clever ideas), for camping fans, and for cooking fans who would like to try something new with their kids, this book is a fun addition to your library.
Summary of Cooking in a Can (Acitvities for Kids)
Have you ever made breakfast in a paper bag? Baked a cake underground? Cooked chicken on a hot rock? In this book, you'll learn how to do this and much more. Make your campout, backyard barbecue, or scouting trip something to remember with great food like Jackrabbit Bean Burgers, Marmot Munchies, and Wilderness Chocolate Cake. You'll learn how to cook using everything from an open fire, grill, and Dutch oven to a paper bag, hollowed-out orange, and garbage can! Plus learn how to make a cooking gear corral, pinecone fire starter, cooking apron, solar sill for drinking water, your own family banner, and more! Get ready for some great food and outdoor fun! Cooking in a Can is the perfect activity book for kids who love to camp and cook! Cooking in a Can follows Cooking on a Stick (now over 63,000 copies sold), and introduces dozens of techniques for cooking outside.Literature Books
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