This week was one of our little ones 3rd birthdays. He was so excited about it so I thought it would be nice to celebrate by making some cakes which fits in nicely with our food topic for the month. This idea went down very well with the boys.
The boys identified the ingredients, helped with the measuring, stirred the cake mixture and then spread the icing in preparation for their decorations. Baking helps the children's learning in so many ways from sharing the stirring (social development) and talking about volumes of ingredients (numeracy) through to the use of new vocabulary (communication and language) and watching the cakes rise in the oven (understanding the world). Most importantly, everyone had fun!
When the cakes were ready we thought it was only right to find some candles and the older children enjoyed singing 'Happy Birthday' to the birthday boy who was ever so focussed on blowing those candles out!
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