Junior Chefs Valentine FUN!

One of our mamas and tots favourite events is our Junior Chefs program.

Once a month we pick a kid friendly recipe that we can all make together and the kids love it.

This month with a focus being on Valentine's Day, we made some special and super delicious heart treats!


Once again the star of our recipe was Kellogg's Rice Krispies. The kids helped to mix up some Rice Krispie treats and practiced their counting as well as we counted out the scoops to make each batch!


With the batches all mixed and cooled down, the kiddies got to fill heart shaped cookie cutters with the mix.

There were sticky messy hands and lots of nibbling but the kids loved it! Even the youngest of the bunch!


Once the hearts set enough to be decorated, the kids got down to covering the hearts with icing.

Once the icing was on, the real fun began! There were all sorts of sprinkles and candies in red and pink for the kids to use to decorate their treats.


As soon as they were done, the kids dove in and enjoyed the yummy treats... and so did many of the moms!


Stay tuned for our next Junior Chef event in March!

OOEEY GOOEY PUMPKINS!

We had our very first Mini Chefs group and it was so much fun!

With our first group taking place so close to Halloween it was only fitting do a Halloween recipe!

We had a week full of rain and cold weather and getting ooey gooey sticky while having fun was just what we all needed!

I chose Ooeey Gooeey Pumpkins after seeing what fun the momstown Oakville moms had with their moms and kiddies doing this same recipe.

Everyone loves Rice Krispie Treats, so we used this as the base to make our pumpkins! The kids helped stir up the GOO and count in the cups of rice krispies.

We scooped out big gobs of treat and the kids got down the making them into balls for the pumpkins!


Wih some bits and bites and candies, the kids got down to making their pumpkin faces!

It was so fun to watch them all so sticky and messy and sneaking nibbles and eating their candies!

I have to admit this was a great one to do just for the clean up, who doesn't love licking the bowl after making rice krispie treats!


I am looking forward to all the Halloween fun still come this week!