I don’t think there is anything more refreshing than a glass of delicious homemade lemonade on a warm summers day. It quenches your thirst like no other drink, and dances so delicately in a glass its almost irresistible.
what you need…
- 1 cup of sugar
- 6 cups of water
- 7 freshly squeezed lemons
- saucepan
- lemon squeezer
- cup
what to do…
- take the saucepan, add the sugar with 1 cup of water and dissolve by bringing to the boil and stirring
- allow to cool at room temperature, cover and place in the fridge
- squeeze all the lemons to make a lemon juice and add the remaining 5 cups of water to this
- combine the both the chilled mixture and lemon juice mixture together in a large jug/glass bottle and stir
- add ice cubes, mint and lemon slices if need be
- serve and enjoy
into a little dream adventure…
- this activity is a good opportunity to use early maths counting and quantity skills…asking questions like, how many lemons do we have? do we need a large or small jug for the lemonade? how many glasses will the lemonade fill? how many cups of water do we need?
- you could make a picture recipe card for your child and see if they can follow and recite verbally back to you what ingredients and quantities that are needed
- talk about what ‘dissolving’ means, what the heat is doing to the sugar?
- collect jam jars for sun quirky alternatives to glasses and enjoy drinking through a straw
- what other things could you create with lemons? maybe try printing with paint or watercolours? or drying lemons slices for decoration
