Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Baking Cookies (the healthier way)

The girls are working on their Baking Badge for Keepers At Home Club. They have to make cookies, cake, pie, cobbler,yeast bread, and dessert bread to earn the badge. So it will take several meetings to accomplish this.

Also they are learning how to bake as healthy as possible. They use freshly ground wheat, succanant or honey granulars instead of sugars, all organic ingredients, and Real ingredients (real butter NEVER margarine, real vanilla extract never imitation, raw milk, etc). They LOVE to bake. And I feel good about them eating their creations because it is pretty healthy!

For those of you who have asked...Keepers Club usually starts out with the 4 girls sharing any new Bible verses they have learned and sharing what they are reading in the Bible. Then we start our baking project and while it is baking we work on a different project. This week while the cookies were baking we worked on the Watercolors badge.

Here is our Fall schedule:
Session 1 – introduction session and Latch Hooking
Session 2Baking session 1 and Water Colors session 1
Session 3 – Baking session 2 and Water Colors session 2
Session 4Baking session 3 and Stenciling session 1
Session 5Baking session 4 and Stenciling session 2
Session 6Baking session 5 and Cake Decorating 1
Session 7Baking session 6 and Cake Decorating 2
Session 8 – Cake decorating 3

All club meetings will include time for Bible Memorization, Prayer warrior, and Bible Reading. These three will mostly be done at home and the girls can report their progress at club meetings.

I really like this club as it helps me to be purposeful in teaching these skills to Rose, that otherwise we probably wouldn't get around to doing. And it is so fun for her, having her friends come over and join us!

2 comments:

DWYHomemaking said...

Angela, I was linking up on Raising Homemakers when I saw your post. What a neat idea for the girls club! Is this something you started or is this an official club with materials etc? I'm new to your blog so if you've already posted about this then just tell me and I'll read it. I have a little girl and some young girls in my church and I would love to see them get involved in this.
Thanks for sharing!

Samantha said...

Yes, I'm curious too what the age level is for starting. We are probably a little young, but it will be something to look forward to.

Oh ya, and let me remind you AGAIN, how much I know you love Rose. You certainly never fed us anything organic in all of nights at the church as teens :).