the road to inspired learning
Because breakfast is a bit of a production around here, lunch has been an issue for me. I don't want more dirty dishes. I don't want to spend more time at the stove. It's hard to transition from math problems and Pollyanna and shaving cream art to kitchen duty. I've tried this. I've tried […]
I am still creating early literacy activities for Simon. This week I designed Color Grab Bag, an activity great for pre-readers and those learning sight words. This would also make a super easy preschool or kindergarten activity bag. You put nine crayons in a brown bag. The colors used are yellow, blue, green, red, orange, […]
My littlest chef has been cooking since he was a tot. He loves to be in the kitchen, and he was super-duper excited when it came time for his first LIVE cooking class last week. (I think he’s doing the happy dance in this picture!) We made strawberry smoothies with Mixing Bowl Academy. The class […]
Early in December, Elijah took three LIVE cooking classes from Mixing Bowl Academy. (We set up a laptop in the kitchen.) The first day he made a cookie we’d never had before: frosted chocolate walnut cookies. Delicious! The second day he baked up some yummy Mexican Wedding cakes and rolled them in powdered sugar. The […]
Thanks to the generosity of Mixing Bowl Academy, I am giving away one FREE MONTH of LIVE Mixing Bowl Academy classes! You can pick from any of the spring months, Jr. Chefs (ages 8+) or Lil Chefs (ages 4-7). If you’d like to win you need to do one of the following (each thing you do can be […]
We made chocolate-chocolate chip cookies and mint-chocolate chip cookies. They are good. A little too good! In fact, these are the kind of cookies that you should bake and TAKE somewhere (not the kind you keep at home). I know this picture doesn’t do these cookies justice. You really have to taste one (and have […]
One element of the Sunny Seashell Download N Go is to have a PARTY on Friday. I decided we would make some cupcakes and use some seashell candies to decorate the tops. Here is what we did. First, I had to find some seashell molds. I found a small kitchen specialty shop that let me […]
We spent last week learning about maple trees/maple sugaring/maple syrup…you get the idea! So, we decided that Grandpa Mike’s monthly installment (from the Cookie of the Month Club) would be Maple Cookies! After they baked, we frosted them with maple-buttercream frosting (which is a little bit dangerously good!). Here are the boys with the dough… […]
Elijah helped make the goodies this week. We shared them with daddy for a special tea-time last night. Directions: Heat the oven to 170º. Set waffle-shaped pretzels on a cookie sheet, then top each pretzel with an unwrapped Hershey’s Hug. (Elijah did this step all by himself!) Bake for 4 minutes until the Hug looks […]
Do you know what this is? Underneath all that icing, you’ll find some cinnamon rolls…. YUM! This is my a tried and true recipe. You’ll find it here.