Kids Love to Dress Up

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Jen

What you need:

• 2 cups raw muesli
• 1 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
• 1 cup of what ever dried fruit or nuts you like.  We like to include dates, cranberries, sultanas, apricot, almonds, desiccated coconut and choc chips.  Chop the dried fruit up so that everything is the size of a sultana.
• 1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 80g light margarine melted
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 1 egg white

Here is how you do it:

1. Preheat oven to 190C.  Line 2 large baking trays with baking paper
2. Combine museli, flour, sugar, dried fruit in a large bowl. Make a well at the center. Add margarine and eggs, mix in dried ingredients gradually until well combined
3. Using damp hands roll tablespoons of dough into balls. Place on prepared tray about 4cm apart for spreading. using a fork, flatten slightly. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on trays, cookies will firm.

We came up with 6 jobs – get dressed, make bed, pyjamas away, toys away, brush teeth, brush hair and left a blank box incase we thought of anything else.  The first day we used the list the kids raced around doing each job on the list and excitedly raced to me to let me know the task had been completed and to get their tick.  It was like a miracle! I didn’t have to tell them what to do and we had spare time to play a game before we had to walk to school!  We now use the list every day and our morning routines are fun, easier and quicker.

Here is a copy of our Morning_routine as an example to get you started if you want to do something similar. My kids just enjoy getting a tick for each job, but you could try using a stamp or stickers.

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Jen

Have you tried pressing flowers with your kids yet?  My daughter and I had a great time picking flowers to press, she enjoyed laying them out between two bits of paper and squashing them within a large book.  We then piled up several books on top of the one containing the flowers and waited…  4 weeks later we got creative and made cards and book marks with the flowers we pressed.

The gift card pictured here was made by gluing petals onto a piece of card board to look like a flower – it was simple, fun and a useful gift tag.  To make the bookmark we stuck the flowers onto a long piece of card board and then covered the whole thing in clear contact.  You can also use the pressed flowers in a collage or picture.  For more craft ideas for kids take a look at our craft for kids section of Baby-Patch.com

Jen

If you are looking for a fun and creative activity to do with your toddler give this a go.  You will need crayons, paper and paint.  Get your child to colour the whole piece of paper in different colours of crayons.  Make sure he or she covers the whole piece of paper in colour.  Then get paint, use black if you want a space / night scene or any other colour if you just want to have fun and make a design.  Cover the whole paper again in the paint.  You can then wait for the paint to dry and then scratch off the paint with a blunt pencil or if your toddler can not wait, use a blunt instrument (or your fingers) to take off some of the paint and make a design.  If your child makes a mistake they can repaint the paper and make a new design!  For other creative ideas to do with kids look at Kids craft activities at baby-patch.com

Jen

Yummo!

Jen

• Frankfurts
• 2 tins baked beans
• 1 Onion
• 2 tomatos

1. dice onions and tomatos, slice frankfurts
2. fry onions
3. add tomatos
4. add frankfurts
5. stir in baked beans
6. enjoy!

Hope you enjoy this recipe!

Jen