teekelly
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age range 2-5..... this does look abit too much for the to handle.. i was looking for something with less ingredients
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I have found 2-5 year olds are actually quite easy to deal with. the 5 year old could make biscuits using cookie cutters to make different shapes. The dough is easy to make and rolling out is simple. The 2 year old can be ' employed' rolling out another batch (or portion) with a rolling pin or just figures into cookie cutters, and our cutting up. both can press eyes into gingerbread men/women shapes. After they are cooked (kids had a rest or play elsewhere), then you can decorate. Warm chocolate is not hot, or does not have to be... Aprons are useful because this can be messy but that is part of the fun! The chocolate can be white or milk, teaspoons used or the biscuits just dipped and fingers gotten dirty... Additional bits can be added before the chocolate has set...
Other ideas include chocolate chip scones, rolling out thickly, shape cutters and they can be eaten almost immediately and only require around 8-12 minutes to cook, time enough to get them helping making a drink to go with them. A standard 250g flour recipe makes around 6-8 scones and rough and ready is also easily done with scones. A mixer is useful here teaching hands out of bowl...
Chocolate covered almonds or Brazil nuts are also great fun with fingers. Either a bowl of chocolate each or shared depending on how well they behave together.... They don't need much chocolate in the bowl...
Less healthy is cutting up ice cream to put between wafers and dipping in chocolate... Best done outdoors but a blunt knife such as a normal table knife will work, or even a spoon into cones and then pressing into sprinkles or dipping in warm melted chocolate. Just have it all ready first and warm the chocolate in the microwave whilst they are spooning ice cream into the cones....
Slightly more healthy would be shipping banana chunks into chocolate. Blunt knife to cut banana up with and if the bananas have started to be peeled they can learn to peel them as well....
Can't immediately think of anything else if whipping up egg whites is not an option (mixer is handy here).
Other ideas include chocolate chip scones, rolling out thickly, shape cutters and they can be eaten almost immediately and only require around 8-12 minutes to cook, time enough to get them helping making a drink to go with them. A standard 250g flour recipe makes around 6-8 scones and rough and ready is also easily done with scones. A mixer is useful here teaching hands out of bowl...
Chocolate covered almonds or Brazil nuts are also great fun with fingers. Either a bowl of chocolate each or shared depending on how well they behave together.... They don't need much chocolate in the bowl...
Less healthy is cutting up ice cream to put between wafers and dipping in chocolate... Best done outdoors but a blunt knife such as a normal table knife will work, or even a spoon into cones and then pressing into sprinkles or dipping in warm melted chocolate. Just have it all ready first and warm the chocolate in the microwave whilst they are spooning ice cream into the cones....
Slightly more healthy would be shipping banana chunks into chocolate. Blunt knife to cut banana up with and if the bananas have started to be peeled they can learn to peel them as well....
Can't immediately think of anything else if whipping up egg whites is not an option (mixer is handy here).
I don't think it is hard. A hand mixer and hey presto! Kids are very excited when things magically transform - a few egg whites into a white fluffy foam which they can spoon onto a baking sheet. Job done!