Home Activities

In this edition of the newsletter, we’ve added a special page just for our students! This page is all about encouraging them to try something new at home!

Cooking- Christmas Shortbread

What you will need:

• 200g butter, room temperature
• 90g caster sugar
• 270g plain flour
• 60g cornflour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt

1. Cream butter and sugar in a stand mixer (or hand-held electric mixer) until well combined.
2. Sift plain flour, corn flour and baking powder into butter mixture, add salt and beat on low speed until mixture comes together in a ball.
3. Transfer to a floured surface and knead lightly. Divide mixture in two and roll into sausages about 2.5-3cm in diameter. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
4. Preheat oven to 130°C and lightly butter baking trays. Remember to always ask an adult when working with an oven
5. Cut sausages into 1cm widths and place on trays. Sprinkle with extra caster sugar and bake for 1 hour.

Christmas Shortbread Recipe - Kidspot

Science Experiments- Taste the Rainbow

You Will Need

• A bag of skittles
• A plate
• Warm water

And follow these super simple instructions…

1 Arrange the Skittles in a circle on the outer curve of the plate. 

2 Carefully pour warm water into the middle of the plate so that the sweets are half submerged. 

3 Watch as the colour of the sweets slowly starts to creep towards the middle of the plate, making an amazing rainbow effect! 

Craft- Handprint Wreath

What you will need

• Green Paper
• Pom Poms
• Paper Plate

How to Make a Handprint Wreath

1. First cut out the circle center of your paper plate.

Then paint it green. This is optional as most of the paper plate won’t be shown but a few small pieces may peak through.

2. Now cut out your handprints.

Because you need quite a few, you can trace and cut out one and then use that to trace the rest. You can also fold over the cardstock 4 times so that when you’re cutting you get 4 handprints.

3. Now glue to your paper plate.

Glue on your pom poms or any other decorations you may have at home.

Make sure you make our teachers feel special on their special day!

Happy Birthday to the following teachers.....