Crafts with grains
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Looking for something to occupy your children during March Break? How about some craft time. MacKenna Roth from Grain Farmers of Ontario is here with some great ideas to keep your children busy using grains.
Craft Recipes:
No-cook play dough made with Ontario wheat flour
Ingredients:
• 2 cups plain flour (all purpose)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup salt
• 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
• Up to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right)
• food colouring (optional)
• few drops glycerine (optional- adds more shine!)
Method:
• Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl
• Add the boiling water
• Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough
• Add the food colouring and glycerine (both optional)
• Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it’s the perfect consistency!*
• (If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right)
Home made soy crayons
Ingredients:
• 600 ml beaker
• hotplate
• candy molds
• 166g (about 1 1/2 cups) fully hydrogenated soybean oil (soyflakes)
• 4 teaspoons pigment
Method:
• Fill beaker with soybean oil
• Place beaker on hot plate on the low setting
• Allow the solid oil to liquefy while stirring occasionally
• Add pigment
• When pigment is evenly distributed, remove beaker from heat
• Pour into candy molds
• Cool for half an hour
• Remove crayon
Note: Soyflakes can be found at many major craft and hobby stores
Snack recipe:
Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
2 cups packed brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup fat-free egg product or 2 eggs 2 cups Gold Medal® whole wheat flour 1 1/2 cups quick-cooking or old-fashioned oats 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups Honey Nut Clusters® cereal 1/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
• Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, beat brown sugar, butter, oil, vanilla and egg product with electric mixer on low speed until blended. With spoon, stir in flour, oats, baking powder and baking soda until well mixed. Stir in cereal and chocolate chips.
• On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.
• Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack.
