Small Group Activity: Baking Healthy Cookies
Approximate Time: 20 minutes
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Materials Needed:
You can choose one of these two recipes:
1. For the Lemon Cookies you will need: 1 lemon, ¼ cup of maple syrup and 1 cup of almond flour
2. For the PB Banana Cookies you will need: 1.5 cups of oats, 4 tbsp of peanut butter (or any nut or seed butter) and 3 large bananas.
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Vocabulary: Baking, cooking, oven, mixing, chef
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How to start the activity:
● Say something like “Today we are going to bake some cookies! I wonder if you can help me to mix the ingredients.”
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What to do in the middle:
● Have all the ingredients measure and ready before calling the child to help you.
For the Lemon cookies:
For the PB Banana cookies:
1. Place the whole rolled oats in a blender and blend for a few seconds until finely ground. You can use pure instant oats if you prefer instead.
2. Peel the bananas then mash and mix along with the ground oats and peanut butter.
3. Spoon the peanut butter cookie dough onto a lined baking tray using about 1 heaped tablespoon. I use greaseproof paper but any non-stick sheet is good for this cookie recipe as long as it's heat resistant.
4. Use a fork to flatten and spread out each healthy cookie to about the size of a large orange. Make sure the cookies are all the same thickness so they cook evenly.
5. Place in the oven at 190C / 375 F for 20-30 minutes until the top and bottom of the 3-ingredient peanut butter cookies start to go golden.
6. Remove from the oven and enjoy the oat cookies immediately.
7. These peanut butter cookies taste best within hours of being made as they are oil free but will last for up to 5 days. If eating a few days after being made it's best to heat them up.
NOTES
Use bananas that are over-ripe to make these banana sweetened cookies, you want a banana that's so ripe you wouldn't be able to eat without a spoon. This makes the cookies really sweet and the perfect fluffy but still gluten free texture.
Experiment with different nut or seed butters as you don't need to use peanut butter to make these healthy cookies.
This recipe makes 6 large peanut butter oat cookies, you can make 12 smaller cookies if you prefer and reduce the cooking time by 5 minutes. I prefer making big ones as its easier and 1 is a proper serving.
If the base of the cookie is golden but the top isn't then try grilling for a few minutes.
· Ask the child to help you pour the ingredients and mixing them.
Extension:(to further challenge the child you may add the following steps)
● Ask the child to make balls with you of the same size with the dough and count how many you can get.
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How to finish the activity:
● Tell the child that he or she can observe how you put the cookies in the oven. Set a timer together.
● When the cookies are ready, the child can help you to keep them in a container and you can agree when to eat them.
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Small Group Activity: Washing dishes
Approximate Time: 10 minutes
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Materials Needed:
● Some easy to clean utensils used to make the cookies
● Soap
● Bucket
● Water
● Sponge
● Towel
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Vocabulary: Cleaning, washing, responsibilities, dirty, scrub.
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How to start the activity:
● Tell the child something like, “We used a lot of dishes to make the cookies, and now we have to clean them, do you think you can help me to wash some of the utensils?”
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What to do in the middle:
● Provide the child with the bucket with water, the sponge and some soap.
● Let the child scrub and wash the dirty utensil.
● Wash them and provide a towel to dry them.
Extension:(to further challenge the child you may add the following steps)
● You check with the child that the utensils are well clean and then he/she can help you to put them in the right place in the kitchen. You can explain the child how certain materials in kitchen work and you can talk about kitchen safety.
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How to finish the activity:
● Give the child a 5 minutes warning.
● Invite the child to put the materials away.
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