Megan and I (Linda) taught school this week.
Free play upstairs. Boys town with tomboy, C3!
Sundy opened the group with ‘Ring a Round the Rosie’
Megan bought a bag of groceries to donate to the food bank and went over the ASL signs for the items in the bag. she then went over the alphabet.
The kids had a great time.
We also had a storytime.
Kathy reading to some of the kids.
And Sundy…
I had the kids make gingerbread ornaments.
The girls liked the dough! They played with it like play-doh!
Cutting out the ornaments
Here is the recipe I used to make the dough.
Gingerbread Ornament Dough
Gingerbread dough for craft projects that makes ornaments to hang or put in baskets that look and smell like real cookies and are made with normal ingredients but bake up rock hard and keep for years and smell great for years. Use gingerbread dough and your favorite cookie cutters to make gingerbread man garlands, gingerbread ornaments and houses.
- 3 tbsp. shortening
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup molasses
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon of cloves, ginger and cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat shortening and sugar together until light and fluffy, stir in molasses. Sift the dry ingredients together. Stir them into shortening mixture in 3 parts alternating with a 1/4 cup of water each time. Dough will be stiff. Refrigerate overnight.
Cut dough into 3 pieces. Knead to warm dough slightly, then roll each piece out about 1/4 inch thick. Cut cookie out with a gingerbread pattern of your choice.
Use a drinking straw to punch hole in center if ornament will be hanging. Place cookies on cookie sheet and bake 20 minutes, turn oven off and let cool in oven.
Remove from cookie sheet and place on rack to dry for about 3 days to totally harden. These cookies are purely for decorative purposes and not to be eaten. If you wish you can seal cookies with 3 coats of clear acrylic and decorate with colorful acrylic pains when dry.