Cooking hot cross buns seems complicated but its actually child's play! Not only is it a great family activity to do on Good Friday, its also yummy!

Have a look at our Hot Cross Buns Recipe and our You Tube Video of Isabella (a Rashoodz Kid) Cooking Show on how to cook Hot Cross Buns. Get your kids to watch it and get confident about cooking hot cross buns. Happy Easter Everyone!

Hot Cross Buns

(makes 12)

* 310mls of Milk

* 165g caster sugar

*2x7g dried yeast sachets

* 650g of plain flour

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp ground ginger

190g dried fruit

1 egg

100g unsalted butter, melted and cooled.

 We also hope you get a chance to get some swimming in this holiday! Its still not too cold to splash in the sun! Dont forget to stay sun safe in our wonderful swimwear for kids.

Source: dip://troll.me/eating-sand-like-a-boss/

Have you got a baby that eats sand? We do. On the first trip to the beach with her, I thought, she will figure it out, sand doesn't taste great. But she didn't. On our second trip to the beach she ate yet even more sand. She ate so much sand that we found it in her pants the next day.... if you know what I mean. So as a responsible parent what are we supposed to do? You can't avoid sand at the beach, its everywhere. Our other children were unimpressed by the culinary potential of sand and it has never been an issue with them. Is there a trick to stopping sand eating? I am hoping she will grow out of it. We are testing this hope tomorrow on a trip to the beach. Wish us luck!!!!

On a side note, someone who obviously doesn't have this problem with her children has created a great Sand Cake recipe (an actual cake not made of sand), which we have linked here. It's a little bit different and looks like a whole love of fun. From I am Momma Here Me Blog.

Enjoy

Its Queensland Sunsmart Day today. Its the biggest ever sunscreen drive to help raise funds for skin cancer research and to make Queenslanders more aware of how to stay sunsafe! Did you know Queenslanders have the highest rate of skin cancer in the world?

The cancer council has changed the Slip Slop Slap saying we all learnt in school, to SLIP, SLOP, SLAP, SLIDE, SEEK.

Slip on your shirt

Slop on your sunscreen

Slap on your hat

Slide on your sunnies

Seek out the shade

Materials

• Sandpit or large box with rice/bird seed

• Play space

• Multiple copies of laminated cut-outs of fi ve sun protection images

or SunSmart Countdown number characters (image sheets provided)

For variations to the game – copy the different images onto different coloured card

and have enough for each child to have a complete set of fi ve plus four extra sets

(for spare cards). Click here for the link to the card print outs and many other actvities. 

Instructions

Bury the laminated pictures in the sand pit/rice box (or alternatively hide them

 around a designated space). Bury the laminated pictures in the sand pit/rice box (or alternatively hide them. Children try to dig up/fi nd as many SunSmart items as they can.

To add to the challenge, once all of the items have been found, children then need

to try swapping their items so they end up with a complete set of fi ve cards –

either five of the same image or a set of fi ve sun protection measures/SunSmart

Countdown number characters. They can only swap one card at a time.

Children try to dig up/fi nd as many SunSmart items as they can.

OR

3 Children can only dig up one of each of the SunSmart Countdown cards. If they  

fi nd one they already have, they need to re-bury/re-hide it. They need to fi nd all

fi ve cards in the set to complete the game.