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Hot Cross Buns

We are finishing up our month of Nursery Rhymes with Mother Goose Time. I kept the Hot Cross Buns day to use when we had time to do all the activities. I knew this was going to be a fun day and I really wanted to be able to do everything. We started the day by reading the Nursery Rhyme, doing the coloring page and reading the recommended book. Then we did the Stacking Buns activity. It was a fun card game that was like a simplified version of Uno. It used cards that were in the shape of little buns, and everyone got 4 cards each. The first player put a card down and then the next player had to see if they had either a matching color, shape, or number. If they had a match then they put their card down. If they didn't have a match they picked a bun card off the pile. We went around the table until someone had no more buns left. We played this game 3 times and decided it would be one we keep out for awhile.



After this we used the Included Recipe Card to make biscuit Buns. We were really excited to do this. My daughter read all the ingredients and supplies that we would need and we gathered everything. Then They took turns putting the ingredients in and mixing. Cutting the butter in was their favorite thing to do because we had to do it by hand since I don't own a pastry cutter.






Once we put the biscuits in the oven we did the Invitation to create activity. I thought this would be fun to do while we waited for the biscuits to bake. I got everything set up and then let them create.

They each decided that they would make the paper circles into buns. They used icing bags of glue to attach raisins, oats, and cinnamon to their buns. They both really loved this activity. And even though it was painful to watch my son do this I took a deep breath and let him go. He really enjoyed this and I didn't want to take away from that by stepping in and making him do things a different way so I wouldn't freak out about the mess. I busied myself by washing the dishes so I wouldn't have to see. In the end he didn't do to bad and he helped clean up.






Once they were finished we put them in the window to dry. And believe me they will need a while to dry! Once they are dry they are going to use the plates that were included with the supplies to serve the buns. So this might happen next week... haha!! They were really cute and smelled good too.  



By the time they were finished with this our biscuit buns were done and cooled. We made some icing to put on top so they would look like the Hot Cross Buns.



They were really good and a great addition to our lunch. We love the days that have recipes. Both the kids are really engaged when they are learning to cook. We have 1 more day of Nursery Rhymes and then next week we will start our March box, At the Pond! If you want a sneak peak check out the Mother Goose Time website to see what we will be learning in March. We are so excited!



*Mother Goose Time has generously provided our curriculum to us in exchange for our stories and honest opinions*






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