Senses Workshops for Year 1 children
The Splat Cooking Senses Workshop aimed at year 1 children goes down a storm. The workshop, which links to the senses topic on KS1 curriculum begins with the children making their own lunch. They make pizza from scratch and talk about where the ingredients such as flour, yeast, and olive oil come from and why we add yeast to the flour, we also look at ways of ‘waking’ up the yeast so it activates to help our bread prove. How do you get out of bed in the morning?
- Do you have an alarm clock?
- Do your parents give a nice gently kiss on the cheek to wake you up?
- Do you have breakfast to help give you energy to start your day?
- Do you or your parents have a nice warm shower?
We tried all sorts of ways to ‘wake up’ the yeast and then we tried to get the yeast to blow up a balloon, do you think it did? You’d have to come on one of our workshops to find out. We discovered how different vegetables and fruit grown that we used on our pizza and some of the stories behind them.
The children then made rhubarb muffins and we tried raw rhubarb dunked in sugar to taste the different in flavour and texture between raw and cooked rhubarb and discussed whether rhubarb is a fruit or a vegetable? Do you know which it is? All the Year 1 children from Oxford High School do.
After eating their pizzas for lunch we played games involving touching, smelling, looking and tasting and then went into the jungle to discover where chocolate came from finishing off by tasting chocolate to discover how our sense of smell if vital for us to taste properly.
At the end of the day the children went home with a bag ful of lovely muffins to share with their family and a whole load of information about different fruit and veg,
Here’s a link to Oxford High School and the photos of their wonderful day with Splat Cooking.
If you would like to find out how to book Splat Cooking to come and run your KS1 Senses workshop please call us on 0870 766 8290, we’d love to talk to you
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Brandy Snaps at cooking club
We had great fun last week making fresh cream brandy snaps, the feedback from parents was amazing from:
‘I haven’t made these since school as they’re too hard and I burned them all then, can’t believe that my 12 year old has made them and they’re perfect, that’s why I love her coming to cooking club on Saturday morning, she comes home with some amazing food’
to
‘Oh wow, I haven’t had these since I was a child, probably around 30 years go, I used to love these, please will you share them’ – response from 6 year old son – ‘hmm, maybe one!’
So if 6 year olds can make brandy snaps they’re not that difficult, you just need a little confidence, a little courage and not to walk away from the oven when they’re cooking and check them every minute then work quickly to curl them round the handle of a wooden spoon. Eating them is definitely the best bit.
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We’re at Foodies Festival Hampton Court for the whole bank holiday weekend running the kids cookery theatre with some very special guests, Pieminister and David Greenwood-Haigh from Divine Chocolate.
Each day there are 4 workshops catering for a total of 30 children at each one and they’ll be making delicious goodies such as:
Pizza
Freenform Rhubarb Tart
Whizz Bang Jelly and Ice Cream
Divine Chocolate Cheesecakes
Some kind of delicious pie
So come along and have a great day out, Beverley is off doing her celebrity bit as Master of Ceremonies in the chef’s theatre with some amazing chefs such as actor Fay Ripley, Levi Roots, Gary Lee of The Ivy, actor Emma Forbes, Ed Baines, Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi all whipping up some lovely food
For more details check out Foodies Festival website.
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Toddler Cooking Club – feedback
Just had the following message from one of the Mums who came to this mornings first Toddler Cooking Club
“Thank you for a great morning. My little chap came out so proud of his tarts- clutched the bag all the way home and grinned like the Cheshire Cat in the story when he shared them with his brothers and sister this evening. Well done Bev and the team. We definitely recommend it!”
Yeay, feel very proud, thank you for that feedback, that’s why we do this cooking with children stuff.
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We launched today. First one ever and it was lovely. We began with a lovely Alice in Wonderland pop up book to lead into making jam tarts.
I constantly harp on about how we underestimate what children are capable of doing and yet again I was proved correct. We had a group of 2 year olds making shortcrust pastry, with the help from their parents and actually I think the parents had as good a time as their children. Lots of comments such as ‘I haven’t made pastry for years’, ‘I’d forgotten how easy it was to make pastry’, ‘this is so much fun’ – that was just the adults. Jam tarts made and into the oven then on to tasting.
Linking in to jam the children tasted strawberries and learned that they are the only fruit with the seeds on the outside and raspberries and we talked about the different colours of the jam. We had strawberry, cherry and raspberry jam to taste on bread fingers as well as funny yellow coloured jam – gooseberry, the children and their parents were surprised to learn that gooseberries used to be known as ‘fayberries’ as ‘fays’ or ‘fairies’ were thought to hide in their bushes to protect them from danger as gooseberry bushes have very large thorns on them and are good at preventing predators coming too close. It was so quiet when we were tasting, you could have heard a pin drop, a big difference to all the excitement of making the tarts and a lovely way of settling down again.
Then it was onto the creative tables, colouring in, personalising our food bags then once the tarts had time to cool down we tasted one each just to make sure that they were good enough to take home and share – they were.
Finally we sat down and read Alice in Wonderland again and were very proud to see that the jam tarts on the final page were no way near as good as the ones we’d just made.
I just hope the children and parents enjoyed themselves as much as I did and I can’t wait for next week.
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