These Little Fingers

  Home Made Burger Buns These gorgeous looking homemade burger buns turned out super soft !  One of the best bun recipes i have stumbled upon.  I have triple  tested this recipe and each time it turned out really well.     Ingredients 1/2 cup Milk 1/2cup water 3 tbsp  unsalted butter 4 cups flour 2 1/2 tblsp active dry yeast 3 tbsp sugar 3 eggs beaten 2 tsp salt (1 egg  beaten with 2 tbsps water , for egg wash) seseme seeds(optional) Instructions Prepare a warm water mixture : In a small saucepan, combine the milk, water, and butter. Warm over medium heat until butter is melted. Cool for about 5 minutes, or until temperature is 120-130 degrees F. In a large bowl combine 2 cups of the  flour, the yeast, sugar and salt. Add the warm water mixture , followed by the beaten eggs, ( mixing on low speed if  using an electric stand mixer fitted with a dough hook which makes the job pretty easier! ).  Add the remaining  flour 2 tablespoons at a time

  Numeral Race Car Track    Cars and trains are little boys' best friends! I am fascinated with these colourful miniature trains and cars as it promote not only imagination but also open up countless creative avenues for play-based learning. So this week we had a little fun creating our Number Race Tracks. Here's how you get your number track printed.   Print out the numbers onto A4 size sheets or card stocks.   I created my number tracks using "WordArt"(Ariel Black) as a Word Document and got them printed. Use a Silver Sharpie to create your track lines.  (Have your tracks laminated for durability, and also you can cut out the numerals if desired) To start with, I inserted the number sheets into display pockets and used glue-tact to just keep the sheet in place. Hopefully, you can have your kids take their cars for a test drive on their Number Track! Yeah, my son had fun taking all his cars and buses for a test drive, but

  Where imagination begins....... Hello everyone . I thought i should share the recipe for the Playdough. Every household(kids) should have playdough  all year around.  There is  no age limitation to enjoy this awesome sensory play , older kids and parents can join in the fun too.  It's creative uses are endless! and helps your child use his imagination and promotes fine motor skills! . Toddlers would love to squish and poke it when you first introduce Playdough. But wait , watch how your child amazes you with his creativity . Here's the good old recipe for playdough.   Creative uses of play-dough. 1.Making pretend food. 2.Stamping . 3.Silly faces on paper plates. 4.Snipping Playdough with safety scissors. 5. Letter formation. 6. Number formation . 7.Older kids can  learn spell their names and practice words from their spelling list..    Getting bored with playdough... Try adding glitter Add few drops of essential oil Have f

Sensory Number  Fun With Playdough Hello everyone.  Today  i am sharing an activity which i have been doing with my toddler  this week.  Play dough is one thing I have been making for my kids for around five long years. What I love about play dough is that there is no age barrier to join in the creativity.  I happened to discover this fabulous activity using play dough . Great sensory way for learning numbers and this activity promotes fine motor skills . yeah , I have made my older kids make numbers ,letters, spell their  names out of play dough.Now it's the little one's turn, we are back to basics.   Getting the dough into a long sausage shape and trying to trace the numeral   is  challenging for my toddler  right now ,therefore i made him little play dough balls and have him press it on the numeral template. Having him place the balls on the line was easy , this was great fun for him. Guess what? You are right , his little pal Thomas the Tank Engine was ready to r

 Chocolate Cheesecake with Sour Cherry Sauce (adapted from taste.com.au ) This is a delicious baked cheesecake ,  the sour cream made it very creamy. , which added a new depth of flavour. Ingredients For  The Cheesecake 250 g pkt plain sweet biscuit 125 g unsalted butter, softened 500g cream cheese at  room temperature 100g or 1/2 cup caster sugar 1 tsp vanilla essence  3 eggs 1 tbsp corn flour  300ml sour cream 180g  chocolate melted(t he original recipe calls for white  chocolate ) Ingredients  For The Sour Cherry Sauce 1 tbsp corn flour 2 tbsp cold water  360 g jar pitted Morello cherries (I used half of the jar) 2 tsp caster sugar 2 whole star anise Method   Line the base of a 19cm (base) spring-form  pan with baking sheet. Preparing the biscuit base Process the biscuits in the food processor until finely crushed. Add the butter and process until well combined. Transfer the the biscuit mixture  to the prepared pan. Use a little glass or espr

Let's go fishing for numbers. I made this fishing game for my son, and he really loved it.And we went fishing for numbers!  I have tried this before with my girls when they were preschoolers. My girls learned  their sight words with this awesome fishing game which i found in the net .   Begin by making a fishing rod with a magnet at the end of it. Tie a string or wool to the end of a stick or  some pole,we used a paint brush as  the pole . Attach the magnet to the bottom using a hot glue gun . Cut fish shapes out of  laminated coloured paper.  For this first print out some fish shapes on coloured sheets. Attach paper clips or you could staple the fish using a Stapler. ( I think stapled fish would be much safer around kids). Write the  numbers   on fish  and have your child fish for the number of the day. ( you can use a permanent marker,but by using a dry erase  white board marker you can reuse your fish for other learning games.  Say you a