Homemade Clay

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup salt
• 1 tablespoon powdered alum
• 1 cup cold water
• Few drops oil of wintergreen or oil of cloves
• Food coloring (optional)

Mix flour, salt and alum.  Gradually stir in water.  Then add oil and food coloring.  Knead until mixture is well mixed.  Store in a tightly covered container.  Keep in refrigerator until ready to use.

Homemade Paste

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon powdered alum
• 1 quart water
• 3 drops of wintergreen or oil of cloves

Mix flour, sugar and alum.  Add water gradually.  Cook until thickened.  Remove from heat and stir in oil.  Cool.  Store in a covered jar until ready to use.

Not to eat!

A Creation of God

Each child is unique, a special creation of God with talents, abilities, personality, preferences, dislikes, potentials, strengths, weaknesses, and skills that are his or her own. As parents, we must seek to identify these in each of our children and help them become the persons God intended.

~ Dave Veerman ~

Fun Kids Recipes!

Super fun kids recipes here!

Kid's Size Loaf of Yummy Bread

Here's a recipe for a kid's size loaf of delicious, wholesome bread. It's perfect for little hands to knead and mold.

In a small bowl, mix together:

• 1/4 cup warm water
• 1/2 tsp. yeast
• 1/2 tsp. honey

Stir together and then let mixture sit for five minutes. The yeast will start to bubble and rise. Then add:

• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/8 cup all-purpose flour
• pinch of salt

Knead the mixture for ten minutes, adding sprinkles of flour as needed so little hands don't get too sticky.

When the dough is smooth and like elastic, place it in a bowl and let it rise until it is twice the original size. Make sure it is warm and free from drafts.

Spray vegetable cooking spray on the sides and bottom of a small loaf pan.

Punch the dough down. Form it into a loaf. Place the dough into the prepared loaf pan.

Let the loaf rise until double the size.

Bake the loaf in the oven at 350 degrees F. for 20 - 25 minutes.

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In the Childhood Memories

"In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot, and a mom."

Barbara Costikyan

Quote: Sermon in a Loaf of Bread

"In a sermon on the feeding of the five thousand by our Lord, a minister lately spoke of the lad who brought the barley loaves and the woman who made them. Little did she think as she pounded the grain, and mixed the dough, and tempered the heat of the oven, that her loaves were to feed the gathered companies, who sat down in orderly ranks on the green grass, and were refreshed by a meal presided over by Christ. As little do we know whereunto one small act of ours may grow. The obscure agents in this world are oftener stronger than those which are seen."

~

Signs 5/29/1884

The Kitchen, an Interesting Room

Edith Schaeffer shares insights from her experience as a homemaker and mom in her book "The Hidden Art of Homemaking". Her goal is to share creative ideas for enriching everyday life. I love how she expresses herself and shares what sounds to be a very delightful time in the kitchen with her children.  See what you think.

"For growing children at play, there is nothing so interesting as really 'doing things'. To 'help cook' is one of the most enjoyable things of childhood --- to say nothing of being a sure way of producing good cooks.  A child can cut up carrots at a very early age, with no more risk of injury than from falling down outside at play! A child can mix and stir, knead the dough and be given a piece to make a roll man, cat or rabbit with raisin eyes. A child can fry eggs or make scrambled eggs ---- one of mine did every morning from the age of three! The kitchen should be an interesting room in which communication takes place between child and mother and also among adults. It should be interesting in the same way as in an artist's studio, as well as being a cosy spot in which to have a cup of tea while something is being watched or stirred, or while waiting to take something out of the oven."

Now, doesn't that just create the most pleasant word picture in your mind? I hope it inspires you to make your kitchen such a place! It inspired me!