French Toast for dinner, with a toddler chef

Everyone remembers loving the times they got to eat breakfast for dinner – right? It’s kind of like that once a summer treat when the kids get to eat ice cream for dinner. It’s something they remember and talk about all year long.

This time I thought it would be a fun treat to have French toast and fruit kabobs for dinner, on the night it was my little girl’s turn to help make dinner.

Really it’s perfect for a three-year-old. Especially one who loves to crack eggs, dip bread and stick fruit on a stick. There are SO many things that toddlers can do in the kitchen. And this is the age where they truly love doing practical life work and feeling useful.

I did the prep work of cutting the bread and the fruit. She could have managed cutting the strawberries, but at the moment riding bikes was more fun. As it should be!

But with this dinner there was a lot of important jobs for her to do too.

And because I was enjoying making the fruit kebabs too, I couldn’t resist a little creative creation of my own, using small heart and flower cookie cutters. So far this this project of getting the girls more involved in making dinners turning out to be a lot of fun.