Ice Cream in a bag!

For our nutrition activity last month we did ice-cream in a bag.  This is a great activity for science and uses  some gross motor skills too.  Not to mention it is very inexpensive for those on a class budget :)

Here are all of our ingredients: Ice Cubes; Ice Cream Salt; 1 cup half and half; 2 TB sugar; 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Add everything but the salt into a ziplock bag.  

Then close it tightly and place it in another bag that is filled 1/4 way with ice cubes. Next sprinkle in the salt. 

I didn't get a picture of the kids shaking the bag but here is the finished product!

All About Me Nutrition Project!

 We are learning about our culture and what makes us special this month.  One of our projects was the children making their faces with food.   Here are the pictures.

I got the idea from the Mailbox Magazine and then my assistant laminated it onto this board.

 

This was great for their fine motor too.  I gave them tongs to pick up the food.

The finished faces!

The kids really enjoyed this project and afterwards a lot of them actually ate the vegetables with dressing too.

Pumpkin Pancakes-Cooking with Preschoolers!

This week we made pumpkin pancakes for one of our monthly cooking projects.  Our program requires 2 cooking projects and 2 nutrition projects a month.  This was a big hit with both my AM and my PM classes.
My assistant made a picture recipe board that included the recipe for environmental print and pictures that showed the steps and they all took turns following the recipe.
Here are some pictures: