Little Helping Hands

How many of you have young kids who LOVE to help but it usually turns into more work for you when they do?  Today I tried out something I had found on Pinterest, http://pinterest.com/pin/214202525996781224/...not sure how to figure out who thought of it first though! (I'm rather new to Pinterest.)

It feels like I have been working on homework all day and I was trying to figure out how to get lunch on the table for my kids and keep my roll going on the paper I was writing...Here's what I had my four year old do:

Step 1: Cut hot dogs into chunks with a plastic knife.

Step 2: Push spaghetti sticks into hot dog pieces.  I had her stick four halves into each piece.

Step 3: Put them all in the pot

 Step 4: Boil until Al Dente.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5: Pick the sauce.  Jo wanted spaghetti sauce (which was really quite good).

Step 6: Enjoy! Little brother loved it!

 Jordyn was so proud of herself!  She made our lunch all by herself!  If you're OK with eating processed foods like hot dogs then you really should try it.  I knew the kids would eat it, but wasn't holding high expectations for myself.  It was actually pretty darned good.  Jamie was pretty surprised that Jo cooked for him too.  "But she's not a big human, Mommy!"  Hee hee...