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My go-to sourdough bread 🌾👨🏼‍🍳 RECIPE 👉🏼 (for 2 loaves) 🌟INGREDIENTS 🌟:- ◽ 500 g whole rye flour ◽300 g whole wheat flour ◽200 g bread flour (or all purpose flour) ◽ 20 g salt (or less if you...

I love seeing a child's self portrait, & the way in which they see themselves. Minnie has drawn & painted a self portrait before, but this was the first time she's created one using play dough! I set out this selection of materials that could be used to represent facial features, hair, etc, & added our homemade play dough. We looked in a mirror together & talked about our faces, & Minnie named her facial features as we chatted. We looked at the differences & similarities in each others faces, & briefly discussed the shapes, colours & sizes that we noticed. Minnie was keen to "make her own face", & we talked about what a self portrait was. She keenly grabbed handfuls of play dough & squashed it to make her face shape. At first every art material available was being added, so we took another look at our facial features again in the mirror. She was particularly fascinated by her eyes & spent a while studying these before creating her portrait. She added pasta shapes for her hair & decorated her locks with flowers. I love her beautiful flower eyes which were finished off later with conkers! As she made the mouth she pushed a thin lolly stick in saying; "Open wide! Don't worry I'm a dentist & I just want to check your teeth. Say aah!!" (It's always a joy to catch spontaneous imaginative play!) Here's Minnie's first self portrait! Here next self-portrait was accompanied by a story too. As she used handfuls of rosemary to represent her hair she said "I have very messy hair today, it's grown very long & keeps getting in my eyes!" When I asked if her play dough face was happy or sad ( I could clearly see it wasn't happy!) she said; "It's sad because I can't see! The hair covers up my eyes!" The play dough self-portrait then needed to look in the mirror to see their sad mouth! These play dough portraits soon had everyone busy & became an activity for all the family! Here's Daddy's self-portrait. (I have to say it doesn't really do him justice!) ;-) Minnie was keen to take Daddy's apart to explore the patterns in the dough made by pasta! Here's my self-portrait... stunning I know! Ha! Soon Minnie was creating play dough portraits for other people. Here's her portrait of Daddy! Love the shell features! We're going to print this image onto card to make a Father's Day card for him on Sunday! Minnie's Godmother had a baby this week, so guess who Minnie created next! We had a photo of the baby (just hours old) on my phone which Minnie examined carefully before producing this portrait. The small blob of play dough at the top is the baby's woolly hat! To explore play dough portraits in a slightly different way I printed off a few of these blank face templates (A5 size) & added a couple of googly eyes. These are great for recognising, naming, & positioning facial features, as well as exploring a variety of facial expressions & feelings/emotions. And here's another face template minus the googly eyes. A creative way to explore the part to whole relationship, colours, shapes, & size, number, pairs etc. Portraiture is a great way for young children to explore the concept of self, as well as different art forms. Using the play dough to create self portraits added an extra sensory dimension the the activity. The dough & the additional natural materials offered a variety of textures to discover, as did the patterns created in the dough. Maths, language, physical development (fine motor) PSE, problem solving, creative & imaginative development can all be explored in this simple play dough activity. Have you taken the Play Dough Pledge yet? Why not have a go at creating your own portraits & create a play dough family art gallery! Or share your mini masterpieces on our facebook page.

Enhance the flavor and texture of your homemade pizza crust with this easy poolish pizza dough recipe, which uses a simple pre-ferment to achieve the perfect balance of crispy and chewy!

Neapolitan Pizza Dough Recipe. This is a simple pizza dough recipe that I use for all of my thin-crust pizzas. There’s only 3 ingredients, plus water. I’m not gonna lie to you, pizza takes practice...

Once you truly understand how pie dough works, incorporating the flavors and textures of whole-grain flour makes perfect, delicious sense. Our goal was to create a whole-grain pie dough that baked up tender and flaky instead of delicate and crumbly—the typical issues with crusts made with even a portion of whole-grain flour. These problems stem from the fact that whole-grain flours can't form as much gluten as all-purpose flour. We used the food processor to coat 1½ cups of rye flour with butter, forming a water-resistant paste. We broke that paste into pieces, coated them with 1 cup of all-purpose flour, and tossed in some grated, frozen butter. When we added the water, it hydrated only the all-purpose flour, which formed the dough's gluten. When we rolled out the dough, we created layers of high-gluten dough, which provides structure and crisp flakiness, and low-gluten dough, which adds richness and tenderness.

Create sensory self-portraits to learn more about facial features and body parts during your preschool All About Me theme.

This is still the Lizzy/Darcy show. Notes on Pre-shaping and Shaping👇🏽 Backing up to the shaping of the country loaf made with the sourdough starter called Lizzy. There are stages in the...

It’s time to get a little goofy with dough, all while learning about technology! The DIY Electro Dough Kit comes with everything you need to get creative – you just need the dough. You can make your own with our 3 ingredient play dough or purchase some from the store. It’s really great to help kids (and adults) … Continued

This Flower Parts Play Dough Mat is a hands-on way for your kids use their senses as they are learning all about the parts of a plant.

We all love eating raw cookie dough, even if we know it's not safe. Fortunately, we have a cookie dough frosting recipe with no eggs you can eat raw!

These pastries are SO tasty!

Everyone would love this sandwich. They are yummy and cute. Recipe: 1. Make the dough from your favorite flour. 2. When it’s done, push all the air out of the dough with your hands. 3. Divide it into 10 (if you make the dough with about 250 g flour) and roll each into a ball. […]

Sometimes I love to do something different when shaping a loaf of bread. All 3 of my children took Irish Step dancing lessons for quite some time so I am partial to most things Celtic. When I saw instructions for shaping dough into a Celtic knot I knew I had to give it a go.Here are the results. The dough I used was a formula posted by txfarmer. It is a 100% ww sd dough with bulgar wheat added. It is a recipe that she got out of Laurel Robertson's Bread Book which she then converted to a loaf using a wy starter rather than using IY. It is a great loaf! Thanks txfarmer. All knotted up and ready for delivery.

Mother dough: here’s all you need to know about natural leavening.

~Pumpkin Sourdough Shokupan~ Amongst all my sourdough shokupans, pumpkin is the softest and moistest, with a lovely hue. Today I purposely didn’t mash the pumpkin completely so that there are...

Grateful for a year filled with sweet, crusty and dough moments! Wishing you all a joyous New Year, sprinkled with happiness and success. Here’s to more delicious adventures in 2024! 🎉 🥖The last...