Baking and Painting – Two of our favorite activities!

Why, you may ask… because its messy and that means that life just couldn’t get better.
But before we start, let me tell you, that S finished her summer holidays and went back to school yesterday. Now my little madam has no time for me and my endeavors. So i tempt her the only way i know… MESSINESS and the possibility of eating something sweet (don’t jump to conclusions, I didn’t bribe her, we baked!)
And since S has her priorities all straight, and more importantly she doesn’t trust me (though I’ve never lied to her…), Project 1 was baking and we made nutella cookies with the new baking set she got.
So the recipe said:

• 1 cup Nutella
• 1 cup All-purpose Flour
• 1 whole Egg

What we used was

• 1 cup Nutella
• 1 cup Regular Flour with a tsp of baking powder
• 1 whole Egg
• A couple of teaspoons of milk (big mistake)
• And some more regular flour (another big mistake)

So you take what the recipe says and mix it up. Then you roll it out and use your cookie cutter. Bake it till it sets! What we did was… well never mind… I’m not known for my cooking skills anyway, just hope I don’t pass it on to S.

Yes yes… our cookie man has some physical defects…

Anyhoo… our cookies tasted like chalk. S loves it though! How far she can go for something sweet…

Cookies… Yum??? And yes again, we ate a bit of the defective cookie man

Project 2 – Finger and bottle Painting
This was a huge success and we had fun too… well S did, I’ll be tidying paint goop off the floor for the next couple of days. I DO NOT understand, how she manages it with a messy mat and  some newspapers spread on the floor.
This is what we made – I found this really neat picture of flowers made with the back of a cola bottle and also something that involved loads of messy finger painting. So we put them together and made this;

Our Sunny garden

And this is how we did it

as always… don’t forget the fingers

Mixie mixie

The bright happy sun

mixed some green with white and yellow for a brighter green grass

Now we could have used finger paint to do the flower, but S chose the bottle print

now add in the ladybird and butterfly

S felt “blutterflies” (nope thats not a typo, that how she pronounces it) should be colourful

It did end up with S looking like this (can you imagine how her hands and feet look)

Happy… and content