Rainbow Cake

First of all whip up a batch of basic cake mixture and divide between six bowls.


250g butter
250g caster sugar
250g self raising flour
4 eggs
tbsp milk
drop of vanilla (or flavoring of your choice)


Beat together the butter and caster sugar. Add the eggs, milk, and vanilla. Sieve the flour into the mixture and stir.

Add a few drops of red, yellow, and blue food dye to the first three bowls. This is also a good chance to talk about primary colours.

Then use the remaining three bowls to mix the colours together to make a green, orange and purple mixture. 

Using a different spoon for each different colour put a blob of mixture into a cupcake case, layering the colours on top of each other. 

Pop them in a preheated oven at 180 degrees and cook for about 10-15 minutes. 

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Pasta Beads

My daughter keeps asking for bead bracelet making sets but after last years trip to A&E because she got a bead stuck up her nose I have been even more reluctant to buy them.

However it is a pretty awesome activity and is great for fine motor skills so as an alternative we painted some penne pasta and threaded them on to some wool. This is fab for preschool children because the holes are large enough for them to be able to join in. My 2 year old boy was over the moon and brimming with pride with his bracelet he made. 

Drews bracelet :) 

I used Tesco's Value penne pasta  which is 30p for a 500g bag. Bargain!

We mixed some colours on a plate and painted the pasta. We made bright and pastel colour palettes 

Macey put out the bright colours 

 mixing pastel colours

Drew painting his pasta

Our pasta beads :) 

I tied the wool around a piece of pasta to stop them dropping off and I used a plastic needle (optional) to make threading a little easier for my youngest. 

pasta and needle tied to each end

threading the pasta.

 I tied the wool  about a cm away from the starting pasta we tied the wool to at the start and chopped the starting pasta and needle off.

chop the starting pasta and needle off

Macey's bracelet

Macey's necklace :)

Mixing colours

Why leave teaching kids about mixing colours to paint and paper when you can make magic ice cubes, rainbow cake, and milk colour explosions instead. :)

  Magic Ice Cubes

A lovely simple little activity which gives you the opportunity to teach children about primary colours, mixing colours, and different temperatures.

First of all we filled our ice cube trays with water and added a couple of drops of red, yellow, and blue food dye. My children love playing with water so this went down really well. We put them in the freezer and left them for around four hours.

Once the ice cubes were ready we talked about how the cold had made the water into solid ice and then popped two different coloured cubes into a glass of water and watched the water change colour. My two year old was really excited seeing the water change and my four year old was hyper guessing what colour the water would turn with different combination of ice cubes.

Rainbow Cake

First of all whip up a batch of basic cake mixture and divide between six bowls.

250g butter
250g caster sugar
250g self raising flour
4 eggs
tbsp milk
drop of vanilla (or flavoring of your choice)