Everyday the children enjoy helping to make their own snack. Which usually consists of seasonal fruits and vegetables. Preparing snack offers children the chance to develop their fine motor skills through chopping and slicing, make choices, gain an awareness of healthy eating and be able to express their likes and dislikes.
Today some of the children found some blueberries in the fridge and asked if they could make something else with them? We looked at different recipes and found one for blueberry muffins! We decided that this would be fun to try.
First we talked about what ingredients we would need.
Then we got to work making our yummy muffins. We followed the recipe, adding flour. One child commented “ I bake lots with granny, I know that is flour” Next thing to do was mix the oil into the mixture, followed by some soya milk and of course we had to add the most important ingredient, some blueberries. The mixture needed a lot of mixing and our arms got quite tired but we took it in turns so everyone could get a rest!
Next we used our mathematical skills to divide the mixture up between our paper cake cases before taking them to the oven. The hardest part was waiting until they came out because we could smell the delicious baking scent. Finally, they were ready and they looked amazing!
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Kung Hey Fat Choi
Today at Cart Mil we have been celebrating Lunar New Year 2022 by participating in various activities both indoors and outdoors! 2022 is the year of the tiger. We discussed the features of a tiger then decided to look for stripes while out for a walk. Look at all the stripes we found….
We also enjoyed having a race through the woods and a play in the spider park on the way back to nursery.
For snack today we sampled different foods that might be eaten during Lunar New Year celebrations.
We enjoyed tasting noodles, rice and lychees!
In the Home room we decided to make our own fortune cookies which were delicious!
We decided to make our playdough the same colours as a tiger and had lots of fun creating our own Lunar New Year tigers!
In the Discovery room we used our interactive board to research the history of Lunar New Year.
We used our creativity and imagination in the Studio today to make celebration ribbons and streamers. We then used them to recreate our own Lunar New Year celebration dance.
We have had so much fun celebrating and learning the history of Lunar New Year.
Kung Hey Fat Choi!
Celebrating Robert Burns 🏴
Today the children celebrated Burns’ Day with a variety of different experiences throughout the centre.
Out in the garden the children made Scotch pancakes cooked on our fire. They enjoyed measuring and mixing the ingredients and watched whilst Fiona cooked them on the fire pit. They demonstrated good listening skills whilst being told about how to keep safe around the fire.
Continuing the Scottish theme, some of the children used their creative skills to design their own tartan using paint and cars. They rolled their car in the paint then onto their paper.
In the Home Room the children asked to make flapjacks. They measured each of the ingredients, developing both numeracy and literacy skills. After mixing them together they used the clock to time how long they took to cook in the oven. They even assisted with cleaning up.
The children in the Discovery Room read a story by Rebecca Colby and Kate McLelland about a wee lassie who swallowed a midgie! They watched a short story on the life of Robert Burns and enjoyed some highland dancing.
The children love to sing at Cartmill and today was no exception. In the Studio they learned some Scottish songs; Coulter’s Candy, 3 Craws sat upon a Wa’ and Pop a little pancake into a pan. They even joined in, playing musical instruments.
All the children enjoyed tasting some haggis, neeps and tatties for snack and tasted some of their flapjacks.
Yummy Blueberry Muffins
This week the toddlers have been extremely busy. After enjoying home grown vegetables for snack this week, they decided to make some yummy blueberry muffins to enjoy for snack.
We all washed our hands and found a recipe book to let us know what ingredients we needed.
This is what we needed:
Plain Flour
Caster Sugar
Baking Powder
Salt
Melted Butter
Buttermilk
Lemon Rind
2 Eggs
Blueberries
We put all of the dry ingredients into a bowl, flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon rind and salt and gave it a stir.
Now we had to mix the wet ingredients, buttermilk, eggs and melted butter.
And gave it a good stir.
We carefully added the wet ingredients to the flour mix and gave it a good mix. It became very gloopy!
Pop in some blueberries.
The children took great care filling the muffin cases before putting them in the oven to cook.
The muffins looked delicious when they were cooked. The children had to wait till they had cooled before enjoying them for snack.
Some of the children wanted to taste some of the blueberries…. even the lemon!
What will we make next time?
From earth to table snack today!!!🥕🥕🥕
The toddlers have been growing vegetables in our garden. We have been watering them regularly and today we were able to harvest them! We enjoyed some delicious toddler grown snacks including carrots and spring onion, with a potato to take home for later.
We firstly picked our carrots, spring onions and potatoes.
Then we washed the soil off.
Finally after working so hard today, we enjoyed tasting our Cart Mill grown vegetables at snack time.
The children have been learning where our food comes from and it was nice to be able to learn and share together. 😀
Flapjack fun!
Today the children in the toddlers had so much fun making yummy, sticky flapjacks! We did lots of measuring, weighing, melting, greasing and mixing to make the perfect consistency. This morning it turned out a little bit dry, so we put our thinking caps on… how do we make it stickier? The answer of course, was more sticky syrup!! We added some extra tablespoons of syrup to see if it would change the texture as it was “too crumbly” and “crunchy”the first time, and it turned out just right. Well done guys! See if you can spot the difference.
We can’t wait to see what the children decide to make next from their book of baking ideas. Stay tuned!!
