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Mother's Day Tea


Our class hosted a Mother’s Day Tea last week and we really enjoyed it. We wanted to do something special for our mommies / grandmas. We gave our teachers ideas at circle on what we wanted to do, and we came up with a tea party idea. Then, we thought about what we will need for the party. So, here was our list:

1. Invite our mommies and grandmas

2. Make a present

3. Make cookies

4. Prepare sandwiches and watermelon

5. Get ready to TEA party!

First, we each went outside to take a photo for our own invitation. We thought a special invitation is needed for such a special occasion.


Second, we set out to make a present. We made bath tea bags with lavender flowers, oatmeal, and Epsom salts. Each of us made our own. Some of us liked more oatmeal and some of us liked more lavender flowers. And, some of us REALLY liked Epsom salts in our bath tea presents! We mixed it up and scooped the ingredients into empty tea bags.

 



Third, we made cookies. There is no party without cookies! We made the dough with a teachers help. Then, we rolled out the dough and used cookie cutters to shape our cookies. They were  then baked and cooled. We then iced the cookies. We had to stop ourselves from eating the cookies right then and there.

 




The tea party day arrived.
 
We came to school excited to help make the food for the party. We made cucumber and cheese sandwiches. For cucumber sandwiches, we needed to slice the cucumbers. Then, we took two pieces of bread, buttered the bread, added the cucumber, and voilà - a cucumber sandwich! We did the same for the cheese sandwiches.

 




For the watermelon, our teacher found one lonely melon baller. So, we used cookie cutters to cut out our watermelon. We had to push the cookie cutter through the watermelon to get the shape we wanted. We were able to not waste any of the watermelon (we used the lonely melon baller to get out the rest of the watermelon).




Now we were ready: Invitations out (Checked) / Presents (Checked) / Cookies (Checked)/ Sandwiches and watermelon (Checked).

We patiently waited for our special guests to arrive and to serve them. We just wanted to show how much we love them!

Happy Mother’s Day!

Love

Children from MWF Fine Arts / Science and Nature Class

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