Letting your kids hide their favorite action figures in the oven is a bad idea.

Instead, fire up their culinary skills with Give Me Some Sugar cooking classes. Chef and Kendall College pastry instructor Alekka Sweeney leads private group lessons in your home and teaches budding Batalis to read recipes, measure, and mix.

Make chocolate turtles, lollipops, and fondant-covered marshmallows in a candy class or whip up oatmeal pancakes, fruit parfaits, and scones in the breakfast session.

Sweeney provides all ingredients and equipment, and even takes care of the cleanup.

So you can leave stress on the back burner.

Give Me Some Sugar (312-546-4788 or givesugar.com).

PLAY
Pumpkins in the Park 5K Run & Walk
What: Race in costume and enjoy pumpkin painting, food, live music, and dance.
Why: Boo-ya.
When: Sat. Kids walk, 3 p.m.; adult race/walk, 4 p.m.
Where: Start at Lincoln Park South Field, 1800 N. Stockton Dr., at North Ave. To register, call 312-944-4113.

SHOW
Drawing Across America
What: New website from after-school arts program Young Rembrandts lets you upload your child’s art to a virtual gallery and donate to Americans for the Arts.
Why: Stick figures, unite!
When: Thru Nov. 30.
Where: Online at drawingacrossamerica.org.

DO
Family Saturday
What: Watch a performance of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice while babysitters tend bambinos (ages 4 and up) in the rehearsal room.
Why: Give yourself a stagehand.
When: Sat., 5 p.m.
Where: Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave., at Fullerton Ave. Tickets at 773-871-3000.