Every day is an opportunity for us, as parents, to educate our children in some way. Now, there are days when neither Tony or Wendy have the energy or creativity to do ANY instruction at all, yet on others, we're bursting with ideas. Recently, we started off our weekend warrior homeschool adventures with education about the 5 senses. What a fun thing to share with children. We used all of our senses within a variety of ways--including several blindfolded challenges to teach smell, taste and touch. Below was a tray of 'ingredients' we used for one of the segments. Needless to say, chocolate is the favored ingredient, and 'red hots' are the least....
After working with ingredients we knew/understood, we had the kids work with our Yonanas frozen 'ice cream' maker. For those of you who love ice cream, but haven't yet found this superior product, check it out. We (the adults) love using it to create some super-tasty delights, and more importantly, we can stop making so much banana bread from older bananas! This frozen treat has significantly fewer calories, fat and sugar than ice cream, and the kids can make it themselves!
STEP 1: Peel super ripe bananas and place them in either a tupperware container or plastic bag.
STEP 2: Freeze them for several hours. When ready to use, pull from freezer and thaw for approximately 15-20 minutes so they are still frozen, but workable.
STEP 3: Place into Yonanas' unique 'ice cream' maker and turn it on. You get fresh banana ice cream and can add in anything from other tasty frozen fruit, caramel, chocolate, chocolate chips, sprinkles, coconut, etc. to flavor it--and it is a super delicious treat to eat from a bowl or on a cone! Here's Aramis giving it a whirl--although we admit up front that the extreme loudness of the machine does bother our little ones' ears somewhat.
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