Anais was off school today, her school was closed as the teacher's were striking.
Firstly she played her violin............................
Firstly she played her violin............................
We spent the rest of the day doing her science homework...................
I will explain!
She had to build a 3D model of the solar system. I suggested a mobile and we make paper planet's, she said she had made a mobile already on Thursday for her history homework. I said we could go and buy some plasticine and make some planet's and stick them up with cocktail sticks, Anais said shame we couldn't do it with icing and then she could eat it after! I said why don't you then............. so we baked! She likes to do things that are a little "different".
30 cupcakes and one large cupcake later.............
(Anais had one as soon as it came out of the oven)
She had to build a 3D model of the solar system. I suggested a mobile and we make paper planet's, she said she had made a mobile already on Thursday for her history homework. I said we could go and buy some plasticine and make some planet's and stick them up with cocktail sticks, Anais said shame we couldn't do it with icing and then she could eat it after! I said why don't you then............. so we baked! She likes to do things that are a little "different".
30 cupcakes and one large cupcake later.............
(Anais had one as soon as it came out of the oven)
The large silicone cupcake mould I brought on holiday came in handy as we used this one for the sun as it is the biggest. I never normally have much luck with silicone but this must be thicker as the cake just slid out. I was impressed. I think I underfilled it though looking at the picture on the packaging.
We turned it upside down and Anais covered it in yellow icing to represent the sun.
We turned it upside down and Anais covered it in yellow icing to represent the sun.
How much icing did this eat up?!?! We had to go and buy more as there was not enough black in the pack and then we brought some white too and had a go at making our own colouring for the planets (very messy) as they had to be "marbled" not solid colour's.
The cupcakes she gave a layer of black icing to represent space and then she tried to have a go at modelling planets. She made a little flag with sticker's and cocktail sticks to say what each planet is.
We tried to make the planet sizes to scale so Pluto is tiny and Jupiter is huge. Anais made a ring to go around Saturn.
The cupcakes she gave a layer of black icing to represent space and then she tried to have a go at modelling planets. She made a little flag with sticker's and cocktail sticks to say what each planet is.
We tried to make the planet sizes to scale so Pluto is tiny and Jupiter is huge. Anais made a ring to go around Saturn.
The board is a piece of cardboard that Anais' new bedroom furniture came in, we still have to take a load of rubbish to the tip and luckily we still had this. We covered it with a piece of black wrapping paper (brought in the January sales, reduced to 25p for the roll, I knew it would come in handy for something!). We stuck sticker's with the planet's names on to the board so she knows where the planet's have to go tomorrow and used the star paper punch to punch out some silver stars. The two piece's of paper give the order and fact's of the planets and distance of the planet's from the sun.
One of Roman's space books = very helpful...................
...................it reminded me of when Roman was much younger and used to love looking through his space books. He'd ask for a Lunar Module for his birthday or for Christmas! He was also adamant that the sun was "the moon on fire"!
She has to transport this to school tomorrow, she did say she would eat it all at school and then not have to worry about carrying it back! She also has to take her PE kit too.
planet cupcakes in the dome carrier, sun in the box!
I hope her teacher appreciates how much time and effort she put into this.
Lunch was a McDonald's while we were out buying more icing. We had to bring it home though as it was packed inside McDonald's. She had a Super Mario toy.
Mark was in a meeting all day, luckily he was back in time to take Anais swimming. Normally Roman stays home with me but decided he would like to see Anais swim today so he went with them. I stayed home to blog and read my Kobo. 49% of the way through Sophie Kinsella "Remember Me?"
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