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Little Ariah comes to ours  once a week. She's getting used to the routine. Nanny's chocolate milkshakes, Nanny's ipad for ABC for kids and a spot of cooking. Funny, she reacts to the sound of the Thermo and comes running for a "milkshake Nanny". She's her mother's daughter- Superkylz used to always come running at the sound of mixer beaters.

Superkylz used to always come running at the sound of mixer beaters

 

This week The Thermo Nanny created the ultimate Play School experience- cooking, painting,counting,craft and singing.

A great standby for snack making is a $10 electric donut maker which really makes little bite sized cakes. It's a sandwich maker style cake/donut maker. Just blitz up the cake ingredients in the Thermo for 10 seconds, cook and ice. Sometimes they are eaten so quickly off the production line they only get a dunking in sugar and cinnamon.

Mini Donut Maker Recipe

1 1/2 cup plain flour
1/2  cup caster sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
125 g butter softened
1 egg
3/4 cup milk 

Method

Mix together speed 5 until smooth (about 10 seconds)

After making the donut cake mix we used my second bowl to make the icing (milled sugar, chocolate powder and water heated for one minute). We mixed and cooked and painted the icing on.

Small quantities of the chocolate icing were poured into a small cup and Little Ariah "painted" the cakes with a silicon pastry brush. A small plastic lid was used to measure out the coconut and sprinkles. Great fun.

The cakes were decorated (sometimes over and over) with coconut and sprinkles.

It  keeps up the little one's interest because 6 cakes come off the machine in 3 minutes, another 6 are loaded and by then the first 6 are cool enough to paint on the icing.  Repeat the process. It only makes 24 so all up it is pretty quick.

Then it developed into a real playschool experience.

This activity ticks a lot of boxes

A quick wash of  hands and face led to water play and bubbles. Miss Two had a great time and she's worked out how to put the tap on and off, squeeze out the cloth and wash up!

While plating up we practised the Happy Birthday song for Big Sister India. Little Ariah was delighted to present her sisters India and Keyala with afternoon tea at the school pickup.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIA