The kitchen isn’t just a room – it’s the heart of the home, where work meets play, dreams take shape, and conversations flow. Here, we fuel ourselves with more than just food – we feed our connections. Gathering with family and friends, sharing everything from our smallest worries to our biggest dreams. It’s space for advice, tears, laughter, celebrations, and singing off-key – it’s where life happens.
Preparing food together and sharing a meal is one of the simplest yet most meaningful ways to connect with family and friends. It’s where we celebrate, share cultures, talk about the tough stuff, and enjoy each other’s company. And you don’t need the perfect setting to make these moments happen. Let’s choose connection over perfection. Your kitchen is a place to feed your heart and soul.
We would love to know what children like to cook and how they prefer to enjoy meals together, and this is where you can help us. With a school class, choose a tasty dish and send us a video of preparing it together in a classroom, school canteen, around the campfire or in a home kitchen and share your cooking tips, favorite foods or exciting kitchen hacks. It’s important that as many children in the class as possible take part in creating the competition entry, that the work is original, and that the process is filled with joy and excitement. Let your creativity fly!
To share your work with us, we ask you to film an up to 15-minute video where the children present the recipe and show the preparation of the dish and enjoying the result together.
For participation please fill out this form and do not forget to add the link to your creative work.
Terms and conditions of the contest "Life´s cooking in the kitchen"
Preparing food together and sharing a meal is one of the simplest yet most meaningful ways to connect with family and friends. It’s where we celebrate, share cultures, talk about the tough stuff, and enjoy each other’s company. And you don’t need the perfect setting to make these moments happen. Let’s choose connection over perfection. Your kitchen is a place to feed your heart and soul.
We would love to know what children like to cook and how they prefer to enjoy meals together, and this is where you can help us. With a school class, choose a tasty dish and send us a video of preparing it together in a classroom, school canteen, around the campfire or in a home kitchen and share your cooking tips, favorite foods or exciting kitchen hacks. It’s important that as many children in the class as possible take part in creating the competition entry, that the work is original, and that the process is filled with joy and excitement. Let your creativity fly!
To share your work with us, we ask you to film an up to 15-minute video where the children present the recipe and show the preparation of the dish and enjoying the result together.
Submission form for „Life´s cooking in the kitchen“ competition
For participation please fill out this form and do not forget to add the link to your creative work.Terms and conditions of the contest "Life´s cooking in the kitchen"
"Life´s cooking in the kitchen" prizes
The deadline for submitting your creative work is 17 October 2025.From the submitted creative works, we will select six classes, who will win a guided tour of the IKEA store as a prize. During the tour, we’ll talk about the exciting history of IKEA and Sweden, chat about famous Swedes, spread some home-furnishing knowledge, walk around the store, play fun games, and solve exciting puzzles. In addition, all kids will have the opportunity to enjoy a truly Swedish lunch.
We can’t wait to receive your entries!
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Life’s cooking in the kitchen
The kitchen isn’t just a room – it’s the heart of the home, where work meets play, dreams take shape, and conversations flow. Here, we fuel ourselves with more than just food – we feed our connections. Gathering with family and friends, sharing everything from our smallest worries to our biggest dreams. It’s space for advice, tears, laughter, celebrations, and singing off-key – it’s where life happens.Read more