A Scarborough Blog: Christmas Baking: Take One

Friday, December 17, 2010

Christmas Baking: Take One

C is for cookie; that's good enough for me.
Ooh cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!


Roll the dough, roll, roll the dough!	My sis says squirrels aren't Christmasy.


Cookie relocation!	In the oven; Oven, oven, oven.

While they bake, I'm going to tell you a story:

One Thursday while I was volunteering in a junior kindergarten class, the teacher Susan decided to have a little fun.

After reading "The Gingerbread Man" (you know the book; "Run, run, as fast as you can; you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man...") she had the kids make their own gingerbread men.

Most really liked making a cookie, adorned with currant buttons and a face; a few cried because cookie limbs came unattached, forcing me to conduct emergency cookie surgery; and all were thrilled to venture to the staffroom to bake the cookies.

My job was then to watch the cookies bake, as the kindergarteners went back to their classroom to eat their snacks. When the little gingerbread guys had finished baking, I swiftly hid them in a corner and placed the baking sheets back in the oven.

The children returned and marveled at how good the gingerbread smelled. But when Susan opened the oven door, the cookies were gone! The gingerbread men had run away, obviously.

As they set out to catch their cookies, I excused myself to go to the "bathroom" and moved the cookies from the staffroom back to the classroom.

When the kindergarteners returned to the classroom, they found their gingerbread men. "Caught them!" one exclaimed.

While all of this was really quite fun, my favourite part was actually afterward when a girl named Riley came up to me.

"You moved the cookies," she said accusingly. "Of course, I didn't," I replied, a little shocked. "What makes you think that?"

"You went to the bathroom, but I don't think you really went to the bathroom."

Smart kid. And that whole experience was the highlight of my week. (Possibly because I got to eat one of the gingerbread.)

Now back to the cookies!