Cookies for valentines

Luca and I have been baking cookies. I had never done it before, not this kind. Inspired by my sister, the organizer of the cake challenge and also by her scientific interest about learning how to make cookies, cakes, and decorate them so that they look professional, I decided to give it a try, of course always in a much more forgiving way.

Luca y yo hemos estado haciendo galletitas. Nunca lo habia hecho antes, no de este tipo. Inspirada por mi hermana, la organizadora de el concurso de tartas y tambien por su interes cientifico sobre aprender a hacer galletas, tartas y de decorarlos como para que parezcan hechos por un profesional, decidi intentarlo, por supuesto de manerna mucho mas relajada (cutre).

Luca was a great helper, he participated in the rolling of the dough, using the cookie cutters and also removing the remaining dough before sticking them into the oven. He has been pretty good at eating them too even before the decoration. It has also provided us with a wonderful and motivating language experience. "Put the flour (and not flowers) on the rolling pin!". The decorating part is coming up soon. In the meantime, we have been also playing with play-doh, and thinking about the cakes and the possibilities that materials such as fondant offer you, I decided to try to model some play-doh food. This is was I made (the carrot was an accident, I mean I saw that piece that looked like a carrot and I started making the oranges). Now I am thinking about using fimo for my creations...this is me never ending trying some new creative activity...

Luca es un gran ayudante, participo estirando la masa, usando los cortadores de galletas y quitando los restos de masa antes de meterlas en el horno. Tambien se le da bien comerselas antes incluso de decorarlas. Tambien nos ha dado la oportunidad de hacer una actividad de lenguaje con mucha motivacion! "pon harina en el rodillo (confunde harina con flores, suena parecido en ingles)" La parte de la decoracion la haremos pronto. Mientras tanto, tambien hemos estado jugando con plastilina, y pensando en los pasteles y en las posibilidades que hay de crear con materiales como el fondant, he decidido hacer comida de plastilina. Esto es lo que hice (la zanahoria fue un accidente, vamos que vi ese trozo que parecia una zanahoria y ahi decidi hacer las naranjas). Ahora estoy pensndo en usar fimo (plastilina artistica) para mis creaciones....esta soy yo, sin parar de probar actividades creativas nuevas...

And we also make bear clones, since the theme of the week at school was bears....always something to talk about.

Y tambien hicimos osos clonados, ya que el tema de la semana en el cole eran osos...siempre tenemos algo de que hablar.