Culinary Kids

Culinary Kids offers kids' cooking classes, parties, after-school enrichment programs, summer camps, and summer “cooking camps.” During these programs, children create theme-based snacks and meals to share with family and friends.

• Ages: 6–14 years old

Culinary Kids states its mission as “Empowering and enriching children's lives through cooking.” The program describes itself as “Where Young Chefs Come to Play & Learn” and shares a “Recipe for Fun” of 2 cups fun, 1 cup laughter, 1 teaspoon friends, 1 ounce smiles, and 1 tablespoon creativity. Founder Bonnie Bachelor is a credentialed teacher with 12 years of educational experience in grades kindergarten through fifth and has been providing her summer camps for the last 14 years. In 2005, Bonnie Bachelor experimented with a cooking class for kids at Wood Canyon Elementary School, and in the summer of 2008 she taught her first summer “cooking camps.” Brie Taylor attended camp in 2008 and joined the Culinary Kids team in 2017. Culinary Kids is in partnership with Curious Chef. The organization reports having twenty employees and three recipe curriculum designers, operating in eight Orange County cities, and enrolling over seven hundred young chefs during the summers. It also reports that its summer camps have expanded into after-school enrichment programs in twenty local schools, that its goal is to extend the summer camp and after-school enrichment programs throughout the West Coast and eventually into other states, and that it is working toward offering programs as part of enrichment during the instructional day at elementary schools. The program states that by participating in its cooking classes and special events, participants grant permission for Culinary Kids to use their likeness in photographs, video, or other digital media in any of its publications, including web-based publications and social media, without payment or other consideration.

Last updated June 16, 2026.