{"id":1216,"date":"2009-03-16T20:31:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1216"},"modified":"2009-11-27T21:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T04:30:59","slug":"1216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1216","title":{"rendered":"Bread Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Shape-ly Sculptures<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Learn about numbers and letters with these tasty bread sculptures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 cup water<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 tsp sugar<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 Tbsp quick-acting yeast<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 tsp salt<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a02 cups flour<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 Tbsp oil<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0measuring cup<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0wooden spoon<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0bowl<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0plastic knives and forks<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0wooden board<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0baking sheet<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cookie cutters (optional) <br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><br style=\"mso-special-character: line-break;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Preheat the oven to 400\u00c2\u00baF. \u00c2\u00a0With your child, measure the water, sugar, and yeast into a bowl, and mix. Wait two or three minutes for the yeast to soften. Stir in one cup of flour. Then add the oil, salt, and remaining cup of flour.\u00c2\u00a0Ask your child to sprinkle flour onto the wooden board. Place the dough on the board, and knead for about five minutes.\u00c2\u00a0Put the dough into the bowl and cover it, letting it rise for about 45 minutes.\u00c2\u00a0Have your child punch the dough down, and work it into a ball. Next, separate the dough into smaller portions\u00c2\u00a0Using the plastic knives, forks, and craft sticks, help your child mold the dough into different shapes, such as letters, numbers, squares, circles, and spirals. Encourage him to decide what shapes to make or use cookie cutters. Place your sculptures on a baking sheet.\u00c2\u00a0Bake at 400\u00c2\u00ba for 15 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0fine-motor skills<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0measuring and comparing<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0shape recognition<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0letter and number recognition<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shape-ly Sculptures \u00c2\u00a0 Learn about numbers and letters with these tasty bread sculptures. \u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 cup water \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 tsp sugar \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 Tbsp quick-acting yeast \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 tsp salt \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a02 cups flour \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a01 Tbsp oil \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0measuring cup \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0wooden spoon \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0bowl \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0plastic knives and forks \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0wooden board \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0baking sheet \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0cookie cutters (optional) Preheat the oven to 400\u00c2\u00baF. \u00c2\u00a0With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,58,14,16,37,15,9,19,12],"tags":[134,132,151,328,393,174,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}