Category: Recipes

Recipes

Colored Rice/Pasta

Maria Busuttil

Dear parents, below, you can find an easy recipe of how you can do some colored rice, which can be used as a base for sensory play. You can also do it with your children.

All you need is:

  • 1 cup rice
  • 1/2 tsp vinegar
  • food coloring
  • Ziplock bag or any other plastic bag or container
  • Place the rice and food coloring (few drops) in a bag or container and mix well.
  • Add the vinegar and mix well again until the rice is covered with food coloring (you might choose to add more food coloring depending on the color that you want to achieve)
  • Place the colored rice in a dish that is covered with a baking sheet (cartaforno), so that the food coloring wont stain the dish.
  • Leave the rice in the sun for a couple of hours so that it dries.
  • Repeat the same process to do more colors.
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Play dough Recipe

Maria Busuttil

Dear parents, some of you have been asking me to give you a play dough fail-proof recipe. So, I am going to give you the recipe that I normally use.

You will need:

  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 tsp cream of tartar – can easily be bought from the supermarket
  • 1/2 cup salt
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 cup water
  • food coloring

Instruction:

  • In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt and cream of tartar and mix well.
  • In a pot, mix the food coloring with the water. Then add the vegetable oil and mix together again.
  • Add the dry ingredient in the pot and mix well.
  • Cook over low to medium heat until the dough starts to form and become dry. It is important that you mix the contents so that they wont stick with the pot.
  • Once it starts to form a ball together and looks fully cooked, take off the heat. Let the dough cool first before you touch it – it might take a few minutes to cool down.
  • Once cool, knead the dough for 5 minutes to make the dough soft.
  • It is important that you store the play dough in an airtight container when not being used.

You can also follow this video: https://www.thebestideasforkids.com/playdough-recipe/?jwsource=cl

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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.

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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.