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Yummy Morning Muffins
Baking is a great way to introduce your child to measurement and the use of
simple tools. He will also observe how the ingredients change color and texture
after baking. Here’s an easy, healthy muffin recipe—of course, you will need to do
most of the work, but let your child be your helper!
3 eggs 1 cup whole wheat flour
½ cup sugar 1 cup all-purpose flour
½ cup vegetable oil 1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup grated apples ¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup grated carrots 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease or line a muffin tin with paper liners.
Let your child help blend the eggs, sugar, and oil with a hand beater or a whisk.
Let him dump in the grated apples and carrots as you stir. In a separate bowl, let
your child help sift the flours, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Add this to the
apple mixture and stir until just combined. Spoon the batter into 12 muffin tins
and bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Enjoy the smell while the muffins are baking and then enjoy eating them for
breakfast or snack.
The Train that Could
Gather a few medium-sized cardboard boxes, punch a hole near the top of the
shorter sides of the boxes and tie pieces of yarn or heavy string through them.
Tie the boxes together. Leave the string on one box long enough for your child
to hold.
Explain to her that you are making a train and that she can be the engine that
pulls the load.
See what your child chooses to put in the “box cars” as she pulls her train from
room to room.
In addition to playing with the train, you and your child can use it at clean up
time to gather toys and transport them back where they belong. The train is a
“simple tool” to help make this job easier!
A variation of this activity is to tie laundry baskets together, in place of the boxes,
to make the train.
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