Watcha Making Wednesday ~ Funfetti Pancakes

Emily and Juliette LOVE to help me cook.  They are always helping me bake and love mixing and pouring and scooping the ingredients, but this week they were super excited to actually help cook the pancakes on the stove with me!

First of course they helped mix all of the ingredients together:

I love the look of concentration on their faces as they are working.

Then to make them extra special we added… …Fall Sprinkles to the batter!!!

Time to get cooking

I added the batter to a squeeze bottle so they could squirt the batter right onto the griddle.  Juliette did this too, but safety was my first concern so I was not able to take a picture, just imagine the huge grin on her face as she is actually at the stove helping make the pancakes!!

  I made the E and J for them, pancake batter in a squirt bottle is a lot of fun!

Emily getting to flip her pancakes.

Juliette listened so well, I trusted her to flip them while I took a picture.  She did a great job!!

The girls with their Initial Pancakes.

I happened to have some whipped cream in the fridge so we added that to the pancakes too!

Our Pancake Recipe

Ingredients

• 1  cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons canola oil

Directions

1. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Make a well in the center and pour in the milk, egg and oil; mix until smooth.
2. Heat a lightly oiled griddle or frying pan over medium high heat. Pour, scoop or squeeze the batter onto the griddle, using approximately 1/4 cup for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot.

To make them extra fun add in a few shakes of colored sprinkles it will look just like Funfetti cake mix!!

 

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stART ~ Count Down to Fall

Welcome to stART!  I hope that you will enjoy our story and art project and maybe even share your own too. All I ask is that you link back to A Mommy’s Adventures somewhere in your post by either adding my button or a text link, so that others can see all the other great projects that everyone shares too! The linky will be open all week.  Be sure to stop by and visit the different links…every week there are so many different and fun book and craft ideas!

Check out the  stART tab in my navigation bar where you can find our past stART projects.  All the books that we have read and did a stART project for are listed in alphabetical order.  I have also included a list of all the blogs that participate in stART.  **This is a work in progress so if you have participated at least 3 times and would like to be added to the list, leave me a comment and let me know :0)

This week we enjoyed reading Count Down to Fall, by Fran Hawk.  The girls are starting to notice all the changes in nature as Fall has arrived.  They love pointing out the leaves that are changing  color and the acorns they find on the ground.  This book counts down many popular fall items with a fun to read rhyming text.  I love all of the details in the illustrations.  There is so much to talk about on each page.  Emily likes to know the names of certain flowers and trees.  So this book was great for teaching her the names of the different types of leaves that we are finding on the ground.   

When I saw the idea for this project on Superheroes and Princesses I knew it would go perfectly with this book.

For this project I cut out a maple leaf shape and an oak leaf shape on diffuser paper.  Then I used my hot glue gun to make the veins on the leaves.   Then I gave them to the girls to paint with red, orange and yellow liquid watercolors.

Emily and Juliette painting their fall leaves.

They had so much fun painting the leaves that I wished that I had made more of them to paint!

They look so pretty on our Sliding Glass Door, just like falling leaves!

Now it is your turn!! Click below to link up a book you read and the project or activity that you did to go with it.

Wordless Wednesday ~ Peek a BOO!

Open Ended Art ~ Concentric Circles

The girls love to sit at the table and color or draw with their markers and crayons.  This is actually how they spend a good part of the morning.  They have access to the paper, coloring books, markers and crayons at all times.  I store them in the bottom of the hutch in the dining room right next to the table. 

One day when I walked over to the table to see what they were up to Emily had started drawing a large circle on her paper.

When she noticed me she said “Look, I am going to keep making circles with all of the markers!”

She did exactly that, marker after marker, circle after circle she drew until it was all colored in.

Look how pretty and she did it all on her own and had so much fun doing it too!

 

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Muffin Tin Monday

This week for Muffin Tin Monday the girls were so excited to use the new Wilton Teddy Bear Silicone Baking Cups that we one from the Wilton Giveaway over at JDaniel4’sMom!  So thank you very much Deirdre @ JDaniel4’sMom and Wilton for making today’s Muffin Tin Monday extra special :)

Our Muffin Tin Lunch

Cottage Cheese with Pineapple, Red Grapes, Turkey and Cheese Roll Up and Pasta with Butter and Parmesan Cheese.

I  used these fun muffin cups to have the girls re-try Cottage Cheese with Pineapple.  It is something that reminds me of when I was little and that I love, but Emily and Juliette never seemed to like.  This time Emily said she enjoyed it, however Juliette is still not a fan!

Having Fun Learning

Having Fun Learning Together This Week!!!

Emily is 4.5 years old and Juliette is 26 months old

This week I started watching my nephew who is only 2 months old.  He will be with us 3 days a week so this first week we spent just getting used to having a baby in the house again!    Emily and Juliette loved helping out with him and showing him with lots of love, hugs and kisses too.  I love that Juliette is getting to experience helping out with a baby the way that Emily did around her age.

While he was napping we were able to fit in some activities, hopefully we will be able to keep up the momentum with all the things we have started and are working on :)

 

The girls enjoyed making Mini Apple Pies.

We  made some leaf prints.  Emily was really into this and picked the leaves she wanted and the colors that she wanted.  Juliette did a few with my help.  She was excited after the first one and then she wanted me to help and then she would rather just play.  Emily Played Memory, What’s Missing?  This is great practice for paying attention to details.  Emily seemed to like the change from the regular game, even though she didn’t always get it right she still wanted to play.

We discovered a Giant Green Squash in our garden.  We thought the vine was a Pumpkin and were very excited to find this!

  For our stART project we read Who Hoots? and made paper plate owls. Our fall sensory bin minus the silk leaves was a huge hit this week.  They asked me to take them out right away, but they loved scooping and pouring with the split peas and popping corn. Emily decided that she would sort the split peas and popping corn!

Emily used apple stickers to make her own patterns.

We used our domino set to make matches.  She loved being able to match every one and see what design it made. Emily colored in the faces for the apples in the Apple Happy Poem.  I plan on doing a poem like this each week so that she can add it into a poetry notebook.  She loved reading it after we were finished.

Juliette wanted to make smiley faces.  I made one for her and she kept trying to copy it.  So far she made a circle shape with lots of dots inside for the eyes and nose and mouth.  She was so excited and I was very proud of her!  At the bottom of the paper she was trying to write her name.  She was asking me to help her.  I guess she sees Emily writing and drawing pictures so she wants to do it too!Juliette liked making pictures with different shapes with  The Learning Journey Match It (Shape Shuffle)  activity.  We talked about the colors and she shapes as she was working.

Using a real knife to cut apples was definitely the highlight of Emily’s week.  We made a regular sized apple pie for dessert and Emily loves trying to use her little knife to cut things.  I said she could help me with her little knife, however once she started to try to use it I noticed it was way to dull and was actually afraid she would get more hurt using that knife.  She did a great job cutting the apples in half for me!

Juliette did a few with my help, but I was obviously unable to get a picture since I wanted to make sure she kept all of her cute little fingers :)

Both Emily and Juliette were also excited to help with slicing and coring the apples.  They each tried one apple.  Emily did it all by herself, Juliette needed my help as soon as I finished taking the picture. We pushed down on it together.  These were both great practical life skills that I hope to practice with them more often.

 

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