Firstly I had to finish off the two birthday cards that art club and rainbows have made to send to the queen for her 90th birthday. It's so funny how making something for someone else, especially a queen, can be so exciting. Little faces, wide eyes, total amazement that I'm actually going to send it to Buckingham Palace, to the real, actual queen.
I do so hope that they send a letter back acknowledging recipt - please keep your fingers crossed for me.
As part of their heritage badge the rainbows are looking at all things from olden times.
Hilarious when you think my daughter (who is 5 and 3/4) thinks something from the 1980's is old!
So I thought I'd take them back somewhat further and look at war time food.
In one word - hilarious.
We looked at mock apricot flan using carrots, which they were not at all amused by. And sugar mice and old fashioned styled sweets. I'm not too usure they really understood about the lack of choice, and it's kind of hard to explain that to five and six year olds to be honest, but as always they embraced it all with enthusiasm .
Looking back at old recipes is so interesting. It's amazing how versatile our great grandmothers had to be during the war.
I shared the recipe with the girls explaining that because they couldn't get hold of apricots they used carrots. Little faces screwing up as I read out the ingredients. What I hadn't told them was that the flan I had on the table covered by a tea towel wasn't actually the one in the recipe, so when I asked them if they wanted a piece they were slightly reluctant, and I did secretly giggle!
My flan I had to confess was pear and white chocolate, so the end result was in fact smiles all round and a big thumbs up, lucky for me.
Explaining that children in the war may have had sugar mice as a treat but their tails would have been string, they looked horrified - but I had substituted the string with fruit strings.
They got messy, made a mess and looked incredibly sticky by the end of it which can only mean it was a success.
I think the end of term rainbows was great fun and of course I found loads of stuff on Pinterest.
So now for a week off and don't forget fingers crossed we get a reply from the palace!
Think the tails may have been eaten on the way home?
I got the recipe for the sugar mice from vintagesweetshop.co.uk, and the mock apricot flan from bbc.co.uk/handsonhistory. Another great site was all that women want - frugal recipes from wartime Britain and of course 1000's of ideas on good old Pinterest.
Ah this sounds like great fun! What a lovely lesson to have imparted! Keeping everything crossed that the Queen replies! Xxx
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