Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen #45- Butterfly Life Cycle Muffin Tin

Time for Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen

(A weekly linky where you can share your special time in the kitchen, such a great place for learning. You can also link up Kid-Friendly Recipes)

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I had Tabitha and Amelia help out with making a couple of the different foods that were going into our muffin tin this past Monday. This is actually quite unusual as I like to make them as a surprise. Tabitha, who does NOT respond well to change, didn't want to help at first. And I thought I was doing a fun thing by including them. Once she got started she was okay with it, it just took some convincing.

Anyhow Amelia helped make the Tapioca pudding to represent the eggs of our Butterfly Life Cycle muffin tin and Tabitha helped make the crescent roll chrysalises. We followed the recipe for the Tapioca pudding that came on the box of Tapioca.

Tapioca Pudding:

1/2 cup tapioca

sugar

milk

2 eggs

salt

vanilla

I soaked the tapioca overnight in 2 cups of water.

And drained it.

Then Amelia helped add the milk, eggs, sugar and salt. 

This mixture needed to be heated on medium high heat on the stove top for 45-60 minutes while being stirred constantly. That was my job. I think I cooked it too long, though I only cooked it for 40 minutes. It got really thick and didn't taste very good. 

After the tapioca pudding was done, Tabitha helped me make the chrysalises. We used 1 can of refrigerated crescent rolls, sugar, cinnamon and an apple.

Tabitha wanted to help cut slices off the peeled apple and cut out caterpillar shapes.Then she mixed some sugar and cinnamon to make cinnamon sugar.

We unrolled the crescent triangles and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on them. Then the caterpillar apples got rolled up inside.

They became a part of our Butterfly Life Cycle Muffin Tin.

Do you have your children help you in the kitchen?  What lessons do they learn? Do you have any kid friendly recipes to share?

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I am linking up to:

 

Melt in Your Mouth Monday
Try a New Recipe Tuesday at Home to Four Kiddos
The Gathering Spot at Mamal Diane
Tempt My Tummy at Blessed with Grace
Friday Food Frenzy at Close to Home
Fantastic Thursday at Five Little Chefs
Making a Home: Homemaking Linky at Linda's Lunacy
Good Eatin' Recipe Hop at For Him and My Family

And here is my Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen linky