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 | 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 | 11 Sep 2017 | Cupcakes, Recipes
With our vanilla cupcakes recipe we teach the children where vanilla comes from. Vanilla is harvested from the yellow vanilla orchid, a beautiful flower. The green seedpods are dried and we find vanilla paste inside, which is further processed into vanilla essence and...
by Retha Basham | 4 Sep 2017 | Pastry, Recipes, September
During August we made a very interesting recipe – apple pie bites, which consisted of a croissant-like apple treat with cinnamon and brown sugar inside. The children learnt about apples, the apple blossom and different colours apples that we get. We learnt that...
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