Best Kids' Cooking Subscription Boxes

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Key Specs

• Cost: About $22 to $25 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 4

Why We Chose It: The whole family will enjoy a culinary adventure at an affordable price with eat2explore.

Every kids' cooking subscription promises to teach your child to cook, but eat2explore goes above and beyond by introducing your family to the cuisine of a different country each month. After all, there’s no better way to experience and appreciate another culture than through its food. Each month’s box features:

• Three recipes from the selected country (you’ll know ahead of time which one will be featured)
• Educational activity sheets
• Shopping list
• Kid-friendly cooking tool
• Collectibles like stickers and flag pins
• Country explorer brochures that educate about the nation’s food traditions
• Essential mixes of spices, sauces, and/or grains that may be difficult to find at your local grocery store

Eat2explore’s boxes are best enjoyed with a subscription, but it is possible to purchase or gift a one-time box. If you opt to subscribe, you can choose from a month-to-month payment of about $25 per month, a three-month subscription for roughly $24 per month, a six-month subscription for around $23 per month, or a 12-month subscription of approximately $22 per month. There's also a refer-a-friend program that offers a discount of $10 for yourself and a friend who joins.

Eat2explore’s suggested age is five and up. While younger users may relish easier cooking tasks like measuring and mixing, school-age children will get the most out of the program’s cultural education component.

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Key Specs

• Cost: Roughly $20 to $24 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 4

Why We Chose It: Raddish is more than a cooking subscription—the company uses each recipe to teach new skills and themes, such as science, history, math, and more. Each box comes with themed activities and crafts to go with the recipes.

Raddish teachings much more than cooking. Each box packs themed lessons in math, science, history, and/or other skills and incorporate them into each recipe. Subscribers will get three recipes per box, grocery lists (food isn’t included), kitchen tools, collectibles, activity sheets, and more to help kids learn new cooking techniques and find out more about the food they’re cooking. 

The boxes are intended for kids ages four to 14 and up and may require some help from parents. Four plans are available, including a monthly plan, which costs approximately $24 per kit. A three-month prepaid plan also equals about $24 per box. The savings start to kick in when you opt for a 6-month prepaid plan, which comes to around $22 per month. If you prepay for an entire year’s subscription, you’ll be paying roughly $20 per box (and your child will get a free apron).

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Key Specs

• Cost: Around $20 to $24 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 4

Why We Chose It: Fun presentation and a balance of familiar and more adventurous ingredients make Kidstir a good choice for picky eaters.

Any parent with a picky eater knows that crafting a healthy diet for them is a bit of a Catch-22: You want to help them develop a taste for new foods without overwhelming them with the unfamiliar.

Kidstir helps strike this balance with recipes for classic kid foods that often feature fruits, veggies, grains, and legumes you may struggle to get your child to eat (e.g., brownies made with black beans or “shamrock” eggs baked in green bell peppers). Fun presentation ideas (such as a rainbow of veggies on a bagel or banana halves made to look like dolphins) add to the appeal for picky eaters. These also make this service best for younger kids; suggested ages are four to 14.

Each Kidstir kit includes three recipes, one cooking tool, a Foodie Fun magazine, achievement stickers, a family game, and a shopping list. A monthly theme ties the box together. Kidstir doesn’t come with any ingredients and doesn’t feature additional educational activities, but if your primary objective is simply to cook with your child, you may prefer this uncomplicated approach.

Pay ahead for 12 months, and a Kidstir subscription will cost about $20 per month; for six months, it runs around $22 per month, and for three months, it's roughly $24 per month. A month-to-month box is also approximately $24. 

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Key Specs

• Cost: Approximately $29 to $35 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 4

Why We Chose It: With Baketivity, pre-packaged, pre-measured ingredients make baking with your toddler a snap.

Toddlers love to help in the kitchen, but there are some tasks little hands just aren’t ready for yet. Since Baketivity’s boxes come with pre-packaged and pre-measured ingredients, even the youngest chefs can get in on the action by simply opening and pouring (hence Baketivity’s younger age range of four to 10). And though this subscription service includes just one recipe per box, this can be an advantage for toddlers’ short attention span. 

Baketivity supplies monthly themed boxes with all the nonperishable ingredients you’ll need to bake up sweet treats with your child, but it’s up to you to purchase other perishable ingredients, like eggs or butter. Even better? Recipe cards and educational materials are also included. And if your family is gluten-free, kosher, or wheat-free, you’re in luck: You can specify these dietary needs for your box (though these are the only dietary modifications available).

A 12-month membership costs roughly $29 per month, a six-month subscription runs about $31 per month, a three-month plan is approximately $33 per month, and a monthly box tops out at $35 per month. Shipping is included in the price for all plans.

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Key Specs

• Cost: About $19 to $23 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 3

Why We Chose It: Harlow’s Harvest engages tweens with STEM-focused learning activities and teaches them real-world budgeting skills.

Cooking with your older child can be especially rewarding as you watch them develop higher-level skills, like knife mastery, using small appliances, and cooking with heat. Harlow’s Harvest facilitates family time in the kitchen with tweens by guiding them through age-appropriate recipes and supplying STEM-focused monthly activities. (When the recipe is for s’mores, for example, your child might learn how to build a campfire or create a DIY bug spray.)

Each box comes with three recipes, a collectible pin for your apron, a monthly kitchen science project, and educational materials on budgeting for grocery shopping (super important for older kids to learn). You’ll also have the opportunity to join Harlow’s Harvest’s Facebook group, where kids can show off pictures of their culinary creations. 

Your first month of Harlow’s Harvest is free with a subscription, and after that, you can choose a monthly box for about $23, a six-month subscription for roughly $21 per month, or a 12-month one for around $19 per month.

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Key Specs

• Cost: $14.95 per month (billed bi-monthly)
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 1

Why We Chose It: Kids Baking Club offers excellent value while teaching kids to bake tasty treats.

For kids ages five to 13 who love to bake, no box service beats the value of Kids Baking Club. This subscription’s monthly boxes are jam-packed with five recipes, baking tools, decorating supplies, a baking lesson, a shopping list, and stickers.

Plus, members receive access to online decorating videos, YouTube baking classes, instructions for dietary modifications, and private access to a Facebook group where they can share and discuss their baking achievements. Each box is curated for a monthly, non-repeating theme.

Kids Baking Club's subscription is $14.95 per month but billed as $29.90 bi-monthly. You must commit to ordering at least six baking kits.

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Key Specs

• Cost: About $37 to $40 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 4

Why We Chose It: Little GF Chefs is made with kids with celiac disease and food allergies in mind. All baking kits are gluten-free and also free of artificial dyes and the most common food allergens, such as nuts, soy, eggs, and dairy.

Little GF Chefs features recipes free of the eight most common allergens. The recipes are gluten-free, free of artificial dyes, and vegan-friendly. Each recipe also features substitutions, so you’ll be better able to suit your family’s needs and diets.

Each box comes with all the dry ingredients needed for the month’s recipe. The box also includes a cooking tool in each box, so kids will be learning new skills in the kitchen. 

There are four subscription options: month-to-month, three months, six months, and 12 months. A child-size apron comes complimentary with every 12-month subscription. Subscriptions range from about $37 to $40 per month, and you’ll save money if you prepay by purchasing a subscription.

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Key Specs

• Cost: Around $20 to $25 per month
• Delivery frequency: Monthly
• Number of available plans: 3

Why We Chose It: Among other supplies, each Little Sous box comes with a kid-safe kitchen tool sourced from top culinary brands.

Want to build a cache of awesome kid-friendly kitchen tools? Little Sous may be the subscription box for you.

This service includes a high-quality, kid-safe kitchen tool in every box, a step-by-step cooking lesson, three or more recipe cards, and hands-on cooking-adjacent activities, like making a cheese board or creating a sourdough starter. Little Sous is geared for ages five and up, and its recipes are intended for kids as young as seven to make mostly on their own, allowing them more independence in the kitchen.

Little Sous’ prices are middle-of-the-road for kids cooking subscription service. You can save money by purchasing a year in advance, which comes out to about $20 per month, pay for six months for roughly $22 each, or pay monthly for around $25.