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Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe: Cooking With Kids

Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe | Cooking with Kids

My kids love homemade lemonade. Whenever our fruit bowl is overflowing with lemons someone always suggests making a batch of lemonade.  We use a tried and true recipe that is easy and doesn’t involve any cooking on the stove top. My kids like to be involved every step of the way – squeezing the lemons, stirring the mixture and especially adding the ice.

Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe

You will need (makes approximately 4 cups):

  • 3/4 cup of caster sugar
  • 1 cup of boiling water
  • 1 cup of lemon juice (approximately 5 lemons)
  • 2 cups of ice
  • 1 to 2 cups of cold water

Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe | Cooking with Kids

To make:

  1. Pour the sugar and boiling water into a jug. I don’t let the kids add the boiling water, I do that myself.
  2. Stir to completely dissolve the sugar in the water.
  3. Place the jug of sugar syrup in the fridge to cool. We add ice to the jug to speed this process up sometimes.
  4. While you are waiting for the sugar syrup to cool – squeeze the lemons. We use an old glass citrus squeezer. To make one cup of lemon juice we generally squeeze five or six lemons. I keep a couple of spare lemons on standby when making lemonade – we often lose a fair amount of juice due to spillage when my 3 year old is in control of the pouring!
  5. Strain the lemon juice into the jug of cooled sugar syrup.
  6. Add one to two cups of cold water depending on how strong you like your lemonade and stir to combine.
  7. Dress your lemonade up with lemon slices, mint leaves, rose petals or pretty straws.
  8. Enjoy!

Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe | Cooking with Kids

Tip: There is some waiting time involved in the lemonade-making process  as the sugar syrup has to cool. If your kids don’t like to wait you can always prepare the sugar syrup the night before so it is cold and ready to go.

Easy Homemade Lemonade Recipe | Cooking with Kids

We often set up a special table with a tablecloth and some afternoon tea to accompany our homemade lemonade and every time we make it my kids want to set up a lemonade stand on the pavement in front of our house. So far I have avoided this but I am not sure how much longer I can!

Have you made homemade lemonade with your children?

Play Grow Learn | Play Ideas Kids WIll LoveMore fabulous lemoney activities:

  • Inspiration to set up a lemonade stand
  • Make some lemoney play dough
  • Experiment with lemon juice as invisible ink

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Ali Wright is mum to two young mini makers – their favourite place to be is around the craft table with glitter in their hair. Ali's focus is on process oriented art as she loves watching her kids experiment with creative materials. When not busy with art and craft, you'll likely find them at work and play in their small city garden. As the mini makers love a good mess, their days include lots of water and messy play!

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Read the comments or scroll down to add your own:

  1. zz says

    March 26, 2017 at 6:07 PM

    It looks like a good recipe if you use enough water (~4.5C to 5C total water--includes the ice) That produces a volume mixture which is ~11% to 12% sugar & ~15% to 16% lemon juice (a nice lemon flavor).
  2. Kathy Arnold says

    August 19, 2017 at 7:26 AM

    The lemonade is delicious.
  3. Mickey Mouse says

    April 21, 2018 at 11:39 PM

    It was delicious. My kids adored it and now want it every day. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe with us.

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