Amanda's Kitchen

Amanda explored making cakes in her kitchen. She used emptying packaging and equipment and firstly encouraged children to role play making cakes, taking on a role in their play, weighing out ingredients, mixing and putting 'cakes' in the oven. She used playdough to represent cupcakes and the children put it in the cake cases. She then explored making cake mixture, the children examined the different textures, the smell, look and feel of the different ingredients. They used an electric mixture to mix all the ingredients. The children then decorated their own cake, making buttercream icing and put the icing and jam inside the cake. Amanda then showed the children how she pipes the icing on top of the cake and the children chose different colours of icing  and different shapes to cut out and decorate it with. They each added a handful of sprinkles. The children were excited and enthusiastic about their finished cake. The cake was cut into slices to take home and Amanda discussed smiling 4 life by eating our cake after a meal to keep our teeth healthy. At the end of the week the children re-enacted making the cakes in the malleable area with all the packaging, equipment and flour. They took on the role themselves, copying what Amanda had done earlier in the week.