Gingerbread Baking

Children often have a plan in mind and yesterday baking was requested, specifically baking gingerbread. So on checkeing the ingredients we realised we couldn't make gingerbread but we could however make a chocolate cake. That was well received and everyone got busy baking a delicious cake to share after lunch. There was much humour, wonderment and excitment as we watched the cake mixer whizz around.

  

However the gingerbread man idea wasn't forgotten and today we had fun working together/mahi tahi to create forty gingerbread men!

The tamariki managed their impulsivity as they waited for a turn with rollers and cutters. They learned about striving  for  accuray to roll the dough to the correct thickness. Too thick and we would have run out of dough, too thin and heads and arms fell off when we picked up the gingerbread men!

Tomorrow we will ice them and decorate them with some raisins for buttons on their tummies. A tasty treat for morning tea. Ka rawe, how lovely.