Outside sensory baking fun

We took cake baking outside to do some more pretend baking sensory. My son loves, doing all this outside sensory cooking. It was so cute, to he said, "Mommy I am so glad it is not winter and we can play outside doing fun things again."

So I gathered the stuff we needed and FUN is what we had.
 

Materials we used:
Cake mix
Raspberry shaving cream for the smell
Gummy worms
Marshmallow
Strawberries
Sweet Tarts
Candles
Eggs(yellow paint for center)
Colored salt as sprinkles
Star baking tins





The stuff we used was left over stuff. Several items have been used other times for different projects. The eggs I used are real and I cracked the top and drained them out, then used yellow paint inside to make it like an egg. Thought this would be neat cause J always wants to crack the eggs when we are baking for real and we don't want to eat egg shells....lol.

Strawberries I had him cut the stems off to practice fine motor skills.

Can you tell they are ready!!!

Pouring all the ingredients in the bowl......cake mix, water, and oil(baby oil we used)

  

"J" cracking the egg.....he thought the was too cool. Placed yellow paint in the inside.

Cutting up the strawberries...."J" did such a great job

Mixing up the cut strawberries

Putting all the batter in the cake tins

Putting all the toppings on his cakes.....gummy worms, sweet tarts, candles, and sprinkles

"J" loved the smell of the raspberry shaving cream

"C" was having a blast, she loved playing in the dough.

Love her face, so into it.....I have to laugh cause "J" would never do this doesn't like his hands dirty.

We love the warmer months, so we can have alot of fun sensory play!!!

"J" is too funny he was saying EAT......yuck mommy said.

Love when my little boy is happy!!!

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Pretend baking materials with real food

Alot of people like to do sensory play with their kids and the kids love it to. So I thought it would be a good thing to put a list and places we buy the stuff for cheap.

We have been doing pretend play with different things for awhile, my son loves to cook. The funny thing is he doesn't like to get messy, where my daughter is the opposite.

I try to recycle alot of the containers for the kids to play with so it doesn't get expensive. I also go to Thrift Stores to get old cooking items as well.

The Dollar Tree is a great place to start!! They have bowls, measuring cup, utensils, salt/pepper shakers and more. Once you buy that stuff you are good then if it gets to messy or cracks then trash it and wasn't too much out of your pocket.

You can get started with the basic stuff for less than $15.

Also, The Dollar Tree has alot of cheap ingredients to play with as well.
Cake mix
 Salt
 Kool-aid
 Beans
 Rice
 Noodles
 Oatmeal
 Cocoa mix
 Bread
 Cookies
 Food coloring
 Whip cream
 Gummy candies
 Marshmallow
Jello-O
Pudding
Spices
Baby Oil....this is cheaper than cooking oil for the kids to use, plus it smells good.


This is just some of the things we have gotten.

Summer time is a good time to stock up, due to party planning and they seem to have alittle more in my opinion.

Wal-Mart is another place I buy some of the food items, like rice you can buy in bulk, flour, and kool-aid you have a bigger selection. I do price compare alittle.

Hope this helps some and stay tune will be posting some fun things to cook/bake up with the kiddos for fun.

The shakers are filled with colored salt to use as sprinkles.

These pictures are just some of the things we have so you have alittle of an idea.

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Fun sensory spaghetti play

The kids love mixing up stuff and pretend baking with real food, so I put together this fun spaghetti play.

First you need to cook the spaghetti noodles, I cooked the whole pack, but you don't need to. Then I mixed up a red kool-aid packet with salt for the kids to make the sauce(once you add a little water when playing it turns the pasta red like the sauce does). Then I crushed up old graham crackers to make parmesan cheese(saved the parmesan cheese container to put it in, so it seemed real). Last, we got a small thing of play-doh(brown) and made meatballs.

Mix all together and have at least a hour, if not more of play for less than $3.00

They had a blast doing this, and I had fun playing with them. J was serving me spaghetti and we made the meatballs together.

You can get everything you need from The Dollar Tree, great resource for cheap play cooking items for the kids.

Still can't believe how real this looks.

"C" had so much fun, being 19 months she is not always into it.

"J" was having fun to, his favorite part was pretend cooking the meatballs.

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Kool-Aid salt sensory baking

In memory of Memorial Day we did red, white, and blue Kool-Aid pretend cooking fun. I mixed kool-aid, salt, and a pinch of water together to make like a wet sand mix so the kids could use it to play baking with.

The kids had a blast mixing things together like they were baking.

This was hours of fun sensory play for the kids. The best part was it cost less than $5.00.

Materials:
Kool-aid
Salt
Whip cream (can use shaving cream as well, but my daughter likes to put this stuff in her mouth)
Water

Baking on the sensory table

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DIY Summer Icecream cookie sandwich

We had a HOT weekend here and J wanted to bake, man the thought of turning the oven on when it's so HOT outside. But I did it anyways so we could make a fun treat.

Baked cookies, then add the sprinkles we used kool-aid mixed with sugar fun and different. After the cookies cooled down we got the ice cream and spread it on one cookie and then placed the other cookie on top.

There you have it cookie ice cream sandwich. Easy and the kids will love to help and also eat them.

If you like to bake with your kids be sure to check out some of our other treats we have made.

Strawberries and banana ice cream

July 4th cheesecake

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Kids bucket list 2012

Well I know Summer doesn't start til June 20th, but it is HOT enough to be Summer, so we are going to start our bucket list fun.

This will be the first year we are doing a Summer bucket list, have to say I am alittle excited.

Once we do the fun things will put a link next to it for you to follow, we look forward to sharing our adventures and fun things with you.

SUMMER BUCKET LIST 2012

1. Play putt putt golf
2. Go to a carnival, ride the Ferris wheel
3. Go to the Crayola Factory in Pa.
4. Go whale watching in NH
5. Play in a creek
6. Make colored sand play
7. Nature walk
8. Log cabin camping
9. Mud pie fun
10. Make a car wash with pvc pipe
11. Garden sensory fun
12. Pretend/real food play
13. Visit 3 new water parks
14. Make a hot air balloon
15. Ice play
16. Ride our bikes on the boardwalk at the beach
17. Rent a boat, spend day on the river
18. Do sparklers, watch fireworks
19. Visit a new Zoo
20. Road trip
21. Camp fire(roast hot dogs and make smores)
22. Fishing
23. Visit Port Discovery, Baltimore
24. Make snow cones
25. Go to indoor water park
26. Play some family games
27. Plant flowers
28. Colored bubble fun
29. Throw pennies in fountains
30. Make tin can craft
31. Make some fun crafts on the cricut(my son loves cutting on this)
32. Visit a Science center
33. Go to a Peach Festival
34. Go on a picnic
35. Play in the rain
36. Mommy/son day, movie and dinner
37. Take fun beach pictures
38. Blackberry/blueberry picking
39. Make a BIG strawberry ice cream sundae
40. Make something fun with jello
41. Make a message in a bottle and throw it to sea
42. Make a scrapbook
43. Watch sail boats
44. Paint
45. Tuesday Treats all summer
46. Make a BIG tent, have nap in it
47. Make sun tea
48.Visit National Aquarium, Baltimore
49. Make some fun learning games for kiddie pool
50.Make fruit tea or lemonade


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Pirate treasure water sensory play....day 5

Today we wrapped up the Pirate week. My son had a blast, sure we will be doing more fun play with the Pirate's.

I took the little pool we had and set it all up with fun Pirate stuff. Placed jewels, treasure, sand, colored water, boats, shells and cups.

I made a some what pirate map for play.....not a big artist, but he thought is was cool so that's all that counts at this time....lol.

We spent an hour playing, then it got alittle HOT outside so we came in. J made pirate juice, we searched for treasure, he drove the boat (slide was our boat), was a great time of play.

This was the first time I did a week long theme and I am not sure who had more fun me getting it ready each day or him doing the play. We will for sure be doing another themed week.



J making Pirate juice

Checking the map, then opened the bottle and thought it was cool his name was on the paper.

Pirate "J"

If your kids are into Pirates make sure you check out our other fun Pirate Theme fun.
Pirate Bath Time , Pirate sensory ice play , Make your own treasure box

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Treasure Boxes....Pirate day 4

We have been doing Pirate week and a different activity each day, today we made treasure boxes for our treasure sensory hunt on Friday.

We did alittle pretend play outside. J used the slide as his boat since it has a wheel like the boats do to steer their ship....lol.

Materials:
Wood box
Paints
Glitter
Glue
Little treasure to place on top
Whatever you want to use to decorate your box.

AHOY!!

ARRRRGH!!!!!