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End of Term Breakfast

in Food· Indoor Fun

End Of Term Breakfast

13 Jul

Here’s a fabulous way to celebrate the end of the school term on the last morning!! Make a sumptuous end of term breakfast to celebrate the start of the holidays… I used some chalk pens* to write onto black card and bought some goodies.

Foraged Wild Garlic Bread

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Foraged Wild Garlic Bread

21 May

Today we made some garlic bread using foraged wild garlic… and it was delicious!

in As They Grow· Food

Birthday Cake Alternative

17 May

  Things are not quite what they look like!! We decided to make an alternative birthday cake, our aim was to incorporate each child attending a birthday party getting a party bag, a balloon and the traditional cake to take home…we also needed the birthday child to be able to blow out some birthday candles….so we thought ‘outside the box’..or… View Post

in Easter· Embrace Imagination· Food

Chocolate Dinosaurs Egg Filled Nest

11 Mar

Everybody loves dinosaurs & everybody likes chocolate rice crispy cakes… and they’re even better when put together! We have some dinosaurs that visit our house and cause lovable havoc whilst the kids sleep and sometimes you never know what you’re going to wake up to find….sometimes their nocturnal antics are truly yummy 🙂 

in Food· Indoor Fun

Coffee Granule Art

8 Feb

We wanted to do some art with alternative materials so dug through the kitchen cupboard… we used coffee granules and a dry paintbrush to make our pictures on an empty photo frame.

in Food· Indoor Fun

Sweetie Art

8 Feb

We had some fun using sweeties to make some picture treats and some yummy fashion designing. We used an icing sugar glue which we made by mixing a tablespoonful of icing sugar with a few drops of water, we just dolloped the sugar glue onto a clean picture frame before adding our sweeties and leaving to harden.

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75+ Ways to Have Fun With Food

24 Feb

Here’s some fun ways to enjoy food! Dip spoons in melted chocolate and add sprinkles, leave to cool and then enjoy with hot chocolate.

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