Autumn Craft - Suncatchers

We have been having some lovely Autumn Farm Play days lately.  Farm Play is the playgroup I run at PEACE Farm on Wednesday mornings for preschoolers. Lately the children have enjoyed climbing the trees to see the leaves changing colours and collecting big piles to hide and play in.

We have also been doing some lovely Autumn crafts. I wanted to share a simple idea you can do at home which is easy even for young children.

You will need:  Baking paper, glue, scissors, autumn leaves, and other bits of wool or paper.

Cut a 40cm length of baking paper and fold in half lengthways.  Cut the corners to make a rounded edge. Collect autumn leaves of all shapes and sizes and colours.  Open the folded baking paper. Cover the inside of the baking paper with glue.  Stick on your autumn leaves, and wool/paper.  Re-fold and press to stick.  Leave to dry.  Stick on a window to make a beautiful suncatcher.

Sweet green tomato tart, specialty from Canada and Quebec

This recipe was given and made by our special guests from Canada: Tim and Tracy with their 3 children Mialana, Micah and Zoe. Micah was really happy to show us how to do it! Thank you Micah! Everybody loved it.

Ingredients:

-        3 cups of green tomatos cut finely

-        1 cup of sugar

-        2 teaspoon of corn flour

-        2 teaspoon lemon juice

-        1 pinch of cinnamon, or ginger

-        2 tart crusts

1.     Preheat the oven 180 degrees

2.     Mixed all ingredients except the corn flour, and cook slowly in low/medium heat for 30 minutes

3.     Add the corn flour to thicken the mixture

4.     Pour the mixture on top of a home made crust or puff pastry, and add one layer of crust on top of the mixture

5.     Cook for about 40 minutes

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