by Retha Basham | 3 May 2018 | Latest, Muffins, Recipes
With our lemon muffins the lesson is about lemons and the lemon tree. With this lesson, we take a small lemon tree with either blossoms or small lemons already growing on the tree. We teach the children the colours green, yellow, brown of the soil , as well as the...
by Retha Basham | 28 Nov 2017 | April, Muffins, Recipes
With our pumpkin spice muffins we teach the children about pumpkins . We take a pumpkin plant to the class and show the children the plant with the pumpkin flower and the small pumpkins starting to grow. We also take different pumpkins such as a butternut, gem squash,...
by Retha Basham | 29 Oct 2017 | Muffins, November, Recipes
Our apple muffins recipe is one of the most popular muffins of all. We do a lesson about apples, and then use grated apple in our muffin recipe. The recipe includes rubbing the butter and flour together (fine motor skills) sensory skills, as we put some cinnamon into...
by Retha Basham | 16 Oct 2017 | Muffins, October, Recipes
With our blueberry muffins, we show the children a blueberry plant , and talk about the colours and what the plant needs to grow. We taste the blueberries, as some are slightly sweet and some more sour. We then make our muffin recipe to which we add the fresh...
by Retha Basham | 9 May 2017 | Muffins, Recipes
We made orange and carrot muffins for this class. With this lesson we take a small orange tree to class. I usually wait until May when the orange trees bloom. We show the children the tree and the blossoms and that small oranges form once the flowers fall from the...
by Retha Basham | 25 Apr 2017 | Muffins, Recipes
Ingredients Dough 1 small banana 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 tbsp milk 1 egg 2 tbsp coconut 4 tbsp self-raising flour 4 tbsp sugar (white or brown) ΒΌ tsp cinnamon Pinch of saltIcing 400 g icing sugar 130 g butter or wooden spoon 2 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla essence Sliced...
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