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. 

Omnomnom

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I love bottle tops

Milk tops make fab little pots to hold glitter or sprinkles :) 

A day at the vets

My little boy loves animals so I thought it would be fun to set up a little vet play area.

                               

We set up a veterinary table where he could give his teddies a check up, a spoon of (pretend) medicine, a plaster, and a sticker for being well behaved :) 

Checking Mr Rats chest

giving Mr Rat his medicine 

 I gave him a empty box, a sponge, and a towel so he could bathe his patients. Here is Mr Dinosaur getting cleaned up before his check up :)

We set up a feeding area. I filled a tub with porridge oats and gave him some yogurt pots to use as feeding bowls. He used a spoon to fill the pots with food for his teddies. 

I also cut out some cardboard bones and we decorated them for his pets to play with :) 

While we were out shopping we had a look in our local pet shop and talked about all the things you needed to look after animals and had a look at the toys you could buy. Some time this week I will be getting the recycling box out and the gloopy glue for them to design and make their own animal toys (not intended for real animals) 

Mickey Mouse getting his temperature checked 

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Flower Pots

My children made these sweet little flower pots for Mothers Day. They filled party cups with rice and then made flowers out of cardboard and twigs :)

Happy Mothers Day

My lovely card of my daughter :)

From Rags to Telescopes

In honor of International Womens day we looked at a famous Astronomer who truly lived a Cinderella fairy tale. She was rescued from her prince of a brother who changed her life from rags to telescopes and gave her her fairy tale ending.

Once upon of time there was a girl called Caroline Herschel. She lived in Germany with her Mother, Father and her nine brothers and sisters. Caroline had scars on her face and was very short. Her family didn't think anyone would want to marry her so she stayed at home and worked as a house maid looking after her family and doing all the chores.

Meanwhile Caroline's brother William was living a fairy tale life. He had moved to England and had become a musician. Caroline felt like Cinderella trapped in her home, held back from all her hopes and dreams.

One day something happened to Caroline that changed her life forever. She escaped her life of misery and chores and went to live with William in England. Caroline worked hard as Williams house keeper and he learnt her how to sing. 

By night William loved to watch the stars in the sky. He wanted to learn more so he built powerful telescopes to help him to see deeper in to space. He loved it so much he  left his job as a musician and became an Astronomer. William became well known for his work and went to work for the king.

We decorated tubes to use as Telescopes

Caroline helped her brother and became his apprentice. She loved studying the sky and worked along side her brother discovering  the mysteries of the skies.

We  made our own Constellations :)  

William gave Caroline a telescope as a gift and Caroline started making discoveries of her own. She discovered eight comets, eleven nebulae, and updated a book on the position of the stars.  Caroline became the First  lady of Astronomy

Hand Print Comets :) 

Not only did she discover eight comets but she showed that even with the odds stacked against her she could get her fairy tale ending and be an inspiration to astronomers and people all over the world. 

Comet Collage :) 

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Saucepan Man

For world book day my daughters got dressed up as the Saucepan man from the The Faraway Tree stories by Enid Blyton.

Saucepan man is her favourite character. She adores his silliness, and finds his riddles and the way he gets muddles up hilarious.

Here she is making her costume :) 

Healthy Chicken parmesan

Ready to go in the oven :) 

Serves: 2

Cooking Time: 30 mins 

Ingredients 

2 Chicken breasts

2 slices of Wholemeal 400g bread crumbled and blended into breadcrumbs 

1 egg beaten

2 Laughing Cow triangles extra light 

28g grated cheese 

Method 

1. Preheat Oven to 200
2. Wrap the chicken in cling film. and bang with a rolling pin to flatten. 
3.  Dip chicken in egg and then coat in breadcrumbs.
4. Place in the middle of the oven on a tray lined with foil and bake for 25mins. 
5. Remove and cover chicken in Laughing Cow. Place under frill for 2 mins
6. Sprinkle with grated cheese and place under a grill until it is melted. 

Homemade Turkey Burgers

I love getting my children involved when it comes to making tea. They always sit around the dinner table grinning from ear to ear, proud of what they have accomplished.
Here is a healthy Turkey burger recipe that is simple, quick, and fun for children to make.

To make 6 burgers you will need:
500g lean turkey mince 
1 onion finely chopped
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp mixed herbs 
1 egg beaten 
season to taste with salt and pepper

Mix all the ingredients together and divide and mould into 6 burger shapes. 

Grill on a medium heat for 6-7 minutes on each side. 

Dinosaur Island

I gave my little boy a bowl of porridge oats and some yogurt pots and let him decide what he wanted to do with them. He got his box of dinosaurs out and excitedly announced he was going to make a dinosaur island. :)

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