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Making Hedgehog Rolls

04/05/2009 17:27:00

This activity was sent in by Safe and Sound Daycare, a childminding practice in Brighton and Hove.

 

What did you do and how did you do it?
Hedgehogs Rolls – we made bread dough using a bread machine; occasionally lifting the lid to see what stage the dough was at. When the dough was ready the children were each given a piece of dough, which they shaped in to cone.  They then used scissors to snip the dough to form the spikes. They added raisins for the eyes and nose.  These were then baked in the oven. The children had the option to eat their rolls for tea or to take them home to share with their families.
Hedgehog Roll

What equipment, money, knowledge or experience did you need?
Scales, scissors and bread machine. Cheap to make.  Would need knowledge of how to make dough and more time if not using the bread machine.
 
CURRICULUM LINKS (FOUNDATION STAGE)
Communication, Language and Literacy
Language for Communication and Thinking: the adults and the children talked about the ingredients, the dough making process and snipping the dough with the scissors.
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
Shape, Space and Measures: weighing the ingredients for the bread machine. 
Numbers as Labels and for Counting: counting the raisins and the total number of rolls we made.
Physical Development
Health and Bodily Awareness: talking about why bread and is good for you, which food group raisins fall into and how they are dried grapes.
Using Equipment and Materials: learning how to weigh the ingredients, use the bread machine, how we knead the dough by hand and use scissors safely.
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Designing and Making: learning how to make the dough in the bread machine.
Place: which countries grow grapes and learnt all about hedgehogs.
Creative Development
Being creative – Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas & Exploring Media and Materials: the children talked about the texture of the dough and the smell and taste when the rolls were cooked.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Dispositions and Attitudes: the children being interested and excited about constructing something they area able to eat.
Making Relationships: working alongside one another and forming relationships with them.
Behaviour and Self-Control: learning to work together and respect what another child is making.
Self-care: the children learnt that they needed to wash their hands before making the rolls.