Spiral Play

                  Spiral Invitation on the Play Tray table last week.

                                         

       
  

Harvesting Spuds–Tub 3

          We finished harvesting our potatoes this week.
                
   
While pulling out the plants we did manage to pull one potato still attached.
       
                 Then they dug in with enthusiasm. 
Some of the children had helped harvest the other tubs and knew what
                       they were digging for.

  
Today we sorted the potatoes by size before figuring out how many.
       
                
        We counted 38 potatoes today for a total of 127
                 from all the plants we grew this year.

Snack today was Potato Hotcakes made from potatoes I cooked and mashed last
                                             night.
        
All the recipes we cooked this week came from Company’s Coming Potato
                                      cook book.
                          

One last recipe we enjoyed was potato candy.
           
Pinwheels
1/3 cup mashed potato
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
1/3 cup peanut butter (I used almond butter)
Stir potato, vanilla and icing sugar in large bowl until thick (I used more icing sugar then the recipe said).  Turn out onto surface dusted with icing sugar.  Knead until smooth, adding more sugar if necessary to make pliable but not sticky.
Divide into 3 equal portions.  Roll each onto a piece of plastic wrap.  Spread about 1 1/2 tablespoon of the peanut butter and roll up like a jelly roll.  Wrap in plastic wrap and chill.

Harvesting Spuds–Tub 2

       
This morning we got busy harvesting a second tub of potatoes. 
        
We really had to dig deep into this tub to find any potatoes.
    
                  But we did and a strange one too.
    
                   But how many in this tub?
   
We laid them all in a straight line and estimated how many before we counted.
                 
                                   Only 31 today!

       
   Back inside we cleaned our new potatoes before we had a snack.
      
                       Boiled potatoes, raisins and tomatoes,
 
                                as well as potato cookies.

Down at the Seaweed Cafe

                       
Down at the Seaweed Cafe is about playing restaurant at the beach. 
The author, Robert Perry, is a local from Vancouver Island.
 
What is a cafe?  A few children knew that it was a place to eat.  Pots and pans, table cloth and shells was the invitation to learn more.

Meet the cook.  He knew how to operate the handle to move the grill off the fire.

    
He busily filled his pots with ingredients found on the beach and
rotated them off and on the fire pit.

The cook’s assistant added some spices.
            
Or may a spider crab would be tasty.
                    
At the front of the cafe the table was set with a variety of dishes.
 
Pebble pudding, seaweed salad, crab chowder all waiting for customers.
  
       New owners moved in and brought more customers.

     
Families read the stories to their little ones then we enjoyed it as a whole group.
         
   
     At the Seaweed Cafe the customers enjoy telling tall tales. 
               We practiced dancing like seaweed.
               
              What an awesome day at our beach cafe.