Month: April 2020

Recipes

Simple Ice-cream recipe

Maria Busuttil

Dear parents, below you can find a simple healthy ice cream recipe that you can try with your children. All you need is:

  • 2 frozen bananas
  • 1 frozen peach
  • 1/2 cup coconut milk
  • crushed almonds

The children can help you by chopping the fruits. For safety reasons, you can use a plastic knife so that the children wont hurt.

To make this ice-cream, all you have to do is:

  • Chop the bananas and peach. Put them in a plastic bag or container and place in the freezer until frozen.
  • Once frozen, place the fruits and coconut milk in a blender and blend until smooth.
  • Pour the mixture in a container and top with the crushed almonds.
  • Put in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
  • After 20 minutes in the freezer, Scoop out and Enjoy!

Hope that your children will enjoy this healthy ice cream especially those who refuse to eat fruits.

Educational Websites, General Information

Online Resources

Maria Busuttil

Dear parents, below you can find a website, created by the Ministry for Education and Employment, which will be regularly updated with a variety of activities that you can do with your children.

Here is the link: https://teleskola.mt/

Hope that you will find it useful 🙂

Recipes

Simple Yogurt Cake

Maria Busuttil

Dear parents, here you can find a simple yogurt cake, you can try with your children. It is important that you use the same yogurt cup to measure all the ingredients.

Ingredients required:

  • 1 cup yogurt – any flavor your children like
  • 2 cups self raising flour
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 3 eggs
  • few drops vanilla essence
  • pinch of salt
  • optional ingredients: handful chocolate chips/nuts/dried fruits

Method:

  • Preheat your oven to 180C
  • In a mixing bowl, add the yogurt.
  • Add the flour, sugar and salt. Mix together
  • Add the oil, vanilla and beaten eggs. Mix together.
  • You can also add the optional ingredients at this stage.
  • Pour into a greased loaf tin/cake tin.
  • You can also add some of the optional ingredients on the top too.
  • Bake in the oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown. you can also check whether the cake is ready, by inserting a knife in the middle of the cake – the knife should come out clean.
  • Leave the cake to cool, before taking it out of the loaf/cake tin.

Earth Day

Earth Day

Maria Busuttil

On this day, we celebrate Earth Day. I am attaching a poster which you can use to reflect on this day with your children. You might also adopt some of these practices at home, to be able to leave a better Earth for our children. Children will also learn that they need to be responsible in taking care of our planet – every little change/action helps.

Earth Day

Bird-feeder Craft

Maria Busuttil

As part of the Earth Day celebration, you can also create a Bird-feeder with your little ones. You are encouraged to use recycled materials such as milk cartons to make this craft, so that children will learn that before they throw things away, these things might have another use, thus contributing to let things being thrown away.

Below, are some ideas of how you can do your bird feeder – let the children be creative! It is okay if their bird feeder do not look picture perfect – the most important thing is that children have fun doing the activity.

Looking forward to see the bird feeders that your little ones create.

Earth Day

Plastic Bottle planter

Maria Busuttil

For this activity you need a large plastic bottle which you need to cut the top part. The children can fill the plastic bottle with some soil/compost (can use a tablespoon to transfer the soil into the bottle and can count how many tablespoons full of soil they added).

Once the children fill the bottle half way through, they can add some seeds such as sunflower seeds or ‘skalora’ and continue to fill the bottle with the remaining soil.

They can also decorate the plastic bottled using recycled stuff such as bottle taps.

Finally, the children need to water their plants and place them in the sun. The plants should start to grow in a few weeks time.