Kids in the kitchen

I haven't yet, but I saw this on pinterest, and thought it looked so great if you had kids in the kitchen a lot!
http://ana-white.com/2010/12/helping-tower.html

I was thinking of starting with scones as they seem pretty easy and give her a chance to make dough.

That tower would take up too much room a foot stool would help get her to the right height

DS always joins in with the baking, I just sit him on the kitchen bench so he can reach the bowl easily, although I could move his little table into the kitchen and we could use that. I make anything with him, prior to one I would just bake things that didn't have eggs, so no chance of him eating raw eggs. But now, I just bake whatever we feel like.
He's been helping since about 6 or so months, there is a lot of mess and quantities get rather messed up, but that's all part of the fun

we made our first batch of scones it was a lot of fun rubbing in the butter and adding the milk

Another idea is something like making a plain cookie dough, or just using sweet shortcrust pastry and letting them cut out shapes (like ginger bread men etc) and decorate with icing, lollies etc when they're cooked :)

Something like the 1 egg chocolate sponge in the Edmonds is really easy and pretty fool proof too :)
And things like pizzas if you chop the ingredients and then they can 'decorate' their own pizza :) more incentive to eat it for dinner too!

Aiden loves whisking eggs etc, and tipping in the flour, sugar etc, and stiring. If hes going to be "helping" I dont bake things that are too complicated or need too much concentration from me- just things Ive made dozens of times before!
I used to sit him on the bench too, then I used to stand him on one of our dining room chairs, now he drags one of the little chairs over and stands on that.

Can't say i'm a fan of having my 2 year old in there unless we're specifically doing a project that has been planned to involve him.

I love baking with DD1. Started at 6 monthish - once she was on solids and could sit up

Initially she sat on the bench beside the bowl, now she stands on a chair which I used to have in a corner with me beside the one exposed side but now can be anywhere.

She loves making muffins, and is now able to spoon the mixture into the trays herself. She can also measure with some guidance (great for teaching halves, quarters etc) and crack eggs very efficiently - too efficiently perhaps seeing as she'd neatly cracked all the eggs into the empty chookfood bucket before we made it back to the house from the chook house yesterday

I did the same with my little sister (I was 10 years older) and had her baking from very young. She's now nearly 20 and has been a fabulous cook for years. I love inviting her round to cook tea for me