Cooking Activity: Hardtack

For this cooking activity, the children made Hardtack, a bread often eaten by sailors and pirates. The children poured bisquick and milk into a mixing bowl. The stirred the mixture and them rolled out their hardtack biscuits.

Cooking Activity: Pumpkin Muffins

On this day the children made pumpkin muffins for our cooking activity. With the help of the teacher, the children followed the cooking rebus to make the muffins. They mixed all of the ingredients including the pumpkin, eggs, flour, etc....

Cooking Activity: Veggie Pizzas

Mmmm.....yummy veggie pizzas!  The kids spread pizza sauce on pita bread.  Next they selected the vegetables they wanted on their pizzas.  They could choose from peas, mushrooms, and carrots.  The veggies were topped off with shredded cheese.  The kids enjoyed the pizzas they made.

Cooking Activity: Sugar Cookies

We made sugar cookies with the children after reading the book "Mmm Cookies!" by Robert Munsch.  For this cooking activity we used frozen cookie dough (we didn't make our own cookie dough this time).  We let the children rolling pins to flatten the dough.  Next, they used people shaped cookie cutters to cut out the cookie dough.  After adding some Skittles for eyes, nose, and buttons, we popped them into the oven and ate them later in the day for snack.

Cooking Activity: Frying Fish

We fried fish with the children on this day.  First the kids cracked open an egg and used a wisk to beat it.  Next they dipped a fish filet in the egg.  They put the fish inside a ziploc bag filled with bread crumbs, and then shook it up.  Next we fried the fish in an electric skillet and then ate it.  It was YUMMY!

Cooking Activity: Monster Toast

For this cooking activity we first mixed a few drops of food coloring with milk.  Next the children used paint brushes and the colored milk to paint a monster face on their bread.  We popped them in the toaster for a few minutes and then they were ready to eat.

Cooking Activity: Stained Glass Window Cookies

We made Stained Glass Window Cookies for our cooking activity this week.  First the children smashed up pieces of colorful hard candy.  Next the children rolled out cookie dough and used a large circle cookie cutter to cut out their cookie.  Next they used a smaller circle cookie cutter to make a hole in the center of their cookie.  Finally the kids placed the broken pieces of hard candy in the center of their cookie.  After cooking the kids got a soft cookie with a hard candy center.

Cooking Activity: Fruit Cups

For our cooking activity this week we had the children make fruit cups.  The children used plastic knives to cut up apples, strawberries, pineapples, blue berries, grapes, and bananas.  This was a delicious and nutritious cooking activity.

Cooking Activity: Circus McGurkus Pink Lemonade

Our cooking activity for the Dr. Seuss unit was making Circus McGurkus Pink Lemonade.  The children squeezed lemons, measured water, sugar, and cherry juice to make the pink lemonade.

Cooking Activity: Chocolate Chip Cookies

The children made chocolate chip cookies today.  With the teacher's direction, the children followed the recipe on the cooking rebus to make their cookies.  The children measured, scooped and mixed all the ingredients.