Practical life skills are an important part of the Montessori preschool curriculum. When children are involved in cooking, they are participating in many developmental activities simultaneously. Celebrate this Earth Day with a fun hands-on activity with your child by making these fun earth cookies!
Directions:
– Prepare your favorite sugar cookie recipe (or to save time use a packaged mix)
– Split dough in half and place in separate bowls
– Add blue food coloring to one bowl until you get the desired color
– Add green food coloring to the other bowl until you get the desired color
– Pull pieces of each dough out and roll them together into a ball
– Bake according to the recipe