You won’t have to encourage your kids to read at all if you ask them to help you make nutella and raspberry sandwiches by reading the recipe. That’s just one of the meals featured in an article from Real Simple Magazine, “9 Recipes Kids Can Make.”

Your children may not like all the recipes, I know the Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Sour Cream would have never gone over in my house, but others, such as Yogurt Parfait with Gingersnaps and Honey, are more likely to be a hit.

You may also want to try out a couple of cookbooks for kids. Here are a couple I’ve used:

• Apples, Bean Dip, and Carrot Cake: Kids! Teach Yourself to Cook by Anne and Freya Dinshah
• The Mother-Daughter Cookbook by Lynette Rohrer Shirk