Abstract: A cooking aid device is disclosed that uses themes to represent measurements and to help children understand cooking concepts. The cooking aid device comprises a plurality of measuring instruments, such as measuring cups and/or measuring spoons, and a recipe book. The plurality of measuring cups each comprise a symbol to represent a specific measurement. The symbols can be jungle animals, farm animals, sea life animals, shapes, colors, Braille, letters, numbers, etc. The recipe book comprises a plurality of recipes, as well as a plurality of symbols that correspond to the symbols displayed on the plurality of measuring cups. The symbols indicate to a child visually how much of one ingredient to place into a bowl. Thus, a child can visually match one of the plurality of measuring cups with a specific measurement based on the corresponding symbols displayed on the measuring cups and matched to the recipe book.