Baking Fun!

Baking Animal Cookies

C and I love baking together. Today, we thought of baking cookies shaped like animals since we were doing an activity about animals. Baking is also a great sensory experience as C enjoys mixing the ingredients and kneading the dough. Here's a very simple recipe for deliciously chocolatey cookies! It's really easy so it's fun to do with kids!

Ingredients:

- 140g butter

- 140g caster sugar

- 2 egg yolks

- 225g self raising flour (depending on the temperature as well as humidity, you may need less or more. Just mix till the dough is not sticking to your hands)

- 30g cocoa powder (we used Hershey's)

- Semi-sweet Chocolate chips

Method:

1. Cream the softened butter into the sugar till pale yellow.

2. Beat in the yolks.

3. Mix the flour and cocoa powder into the creamed mixture till you get a non-sticky dough.

4. Cling wrap and chill the dough in fridge for around 10 minutes.

5. Preheat oven to 190degC.

6. Roll out dough and use desired cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Add as many chocolate chips as your child wishes! C had a hard time resisting not eating them all!

7. Bake for 10 minutes. Chill and enjoy!

C helping with the flour and cocoa powder.

A great chance for C to help with some dish washing
while waiting for the dough to chill! She was really
enthusiastic about it. I hope her enthusiasm will last.

Some cute animal shaped cookie cutters!
C chose a hippo, an elephant and a bear.

The best part for C! Rolling, kneading and cutting shapes
into the dough.

Cutting out animal shapes.

C's favourite was the bear!

Enjoying a lovely tea break after all the baking fun!

A happy girl!

Learning about Animals

The animal activity we did today was to introduce C to the classification of animals. C now appreciates the differences in animals and she was really excited to help place the animal cut-outs in the correct categories. 

Placing the animal cut-out in the correct category.

Learning that a starfish is an Invertebrate.

Almost done with the classification!

Please find the printables here:

Animal Classification - with animal cut-outs (print and cut out the animals for your kids to place them into the various categories in the empty table below)

Animal Classification - reference table

You may wish to laminate them to make them last longer. Meanwhile, hope you will find the printables useful for you and your kids!