what to do on a rainy Saturday morning with my little ones?! grab some ready made rolled puff pastry, grate some cheese and get down to some serious creative culinary skills!!! These ever so easy little edible eats are fun to make and yummy to eat!!!
what you need…
- ready made rolled puff pastry
- grated cheese
- knife
- baking tray
- oven
what to do…
- turn oven on to 200c
- remove the packaging from the puff pastry and lay onto the table
- slice strips roughly 2cm width using a knife
- sprinkle the grated cheese over the top
- roll up the puff pastry into a spiral or as we like to call it snail
- place in oven for 20/25 minutes
- remove from oven and leave to cool
- eat!!! yummy….
then into a little dream adventure…
- sing this lovely rhyme while you are rolling up the puff pastry
‘rolly polly up up up, rolly polly down down down, rolly polly ever so slowly, rolly polly stop’
you can use your arms in a rolling action to support the rhyme for a more visual display!!!
- rather than using cheese, maybe try pesto or nutella, encouraging your child to spread onto the puff pastry
- having made your puff pastry snails, line them up and use them for counting, maybe supporting this idea by singing ’10 little snails sitting on the wall…’ (instead of the usual 10 green bottles rhyme) each time eating one which means you go down one number, encouraging early maths development
- go looking for snails in the garden…where are they hiding? recognise their shell and antennae, that they leave a silvery trail wherever the go…that their shell is fragile and their skin is black and squidgy like a slug. maybe have a snail race!!! do the snails move fast or slow?
