by Retha Basham | 2 Dec 2018 | Cookies, Latest, Recipes
With our dipped sugar cookies, we mix our butter, flour and sugar together, thereby strengthening the finger muscles. (Fine motor skills) We roll the dough and cut out shapes , and promote hand-eye coordination and again fine motor skills. When baked, the decorating...
by Retha Basham | 1 Dec 2018 | Cookies
With our egg-free dipped sugar cookies, we mix our butter, flour and sugar together, thereby strengthening the finger muscles. (Fine motor skills) We roll the dough and cut out shapes , and promote hand-eye coordination and again fine motor skills. When baked, the...
by Retha Basham | 9 Apr 2018 | Cookies, Recipes
With this coconut cookies recipe the lesson is about coconut. The children look at and hold a coconut, and learn that the inside is white and the outside brown. They feel the rough texture and compare it with the smooth surface of the table they work on. We then shake...
by Retha Basham | 15 Jan 2018 | Cookies
In December we do the Christmas cookies recipe at all our schools. We use the gingerbread dough, as that is the most popular dough for Christmas cookies. Parents are, however, welcome to use any suitable cookie recipe that they want. We start our class by playing...
by Retha Basham | 5 Oct 2017 | Cookies, Recipes
With the imagination cookies we touch on sensory stimulation, fine motor skills and creativity. The children smell and taste and use their hands to cut out shapes.They then decorate the cookies with icing and pick up small sprinkles to put on the cookies. They are...
by Retha Basham | 1 Aug 2017 | Cookies, Recipes
With our strawberry heart cookies, our lesson is about strawberries. I take a strawberry plant to class, preferably one with flowers and or strawberries already on it. We show the children the flowers, leaves and fruit and teach them about the colours red, white and...
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