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Showing posts with label biscuits. Show all posts

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Biscuit 'Painting'

I can't believe we are three weeks into term already! Here's a little activity we did during the holidays, the kids are already begging to repeat it!



We used coloured icing in squeezy bottles to decorate Arrowroot biscuits. I had a few brand new empty squirty bottles in the cupboard which worked best, but we also re-used some tomato sauce bottles which were destined for the recycle bin.






We experimented together. We lay colours down side by side so see if the line would blur (it didn't). We made patterns on the biscuits and watched the colours run into the gaps. We dragged forks through the join lines to make funny, squiggly lines. We held the biscuits on their sides to watch the colours run down the biscuit surface. We decorated with lollies, finding the best contrast between icing and m&m colour. We had fun :)

Simple, fast and fun with minimal mess :) One tip, make sure you have people to visit after making these. You don't want all that sugar hanging around in your house ;)

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Pink elephants and spotted umbrellas...

I've been trying to spend some quality time with Nat doing 'big girl' things while Zander is at kindy. She get to choose the activity each week. This week she told me we were going to make pink elephants. As I am obsessed with food, this meant only one thing to me - pink elephant biscuits! However, when we got out our cookie cutter collection (over 130 of them) she changed her mind: umbrellas (it had been raining) and Hi-5 bikkies.

Besides gingerbread, I've never really made many 'cookie cutter' biscuits so we had to hunt down a recipe. It was terrible and way too hard to cut out the shapes. I've since had some advice from my baking-queen sister and so I hope next time it will be easier... I am taking recipe suggestions, though! Something quick and easy enough for a 3 year old to really feel that she's really made them herself!

After Zander had done his 'homework' (a recent obsession of his, since watching his cousin work through homework sheets at the kitchen table) we decorated them. Here they are:



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