Measuring Up

It's Thursday also known as Chef Academy Day for our 4-H Cloverbud Day Campers.  We are so excited to get into the kitchen and get cooking but first we needed to take care of our daily business.  As always we started the day with coloring and then moved forward to talk about what we learned on Wednesday.  After completing all that hard work we talked about our upcoming schedule for the day.  Then with much anticipation we headed to the bathroom to wash our hands and hit the kitchen.

We split into two groups for the day.  One worked with Mrs. Janice to start with the other with Mrs. Christy.
For those of you not familiar with our Cooperative Extension Staff, Janice Fields and Christy Strickland are Family Consumer Science Extension Agents.  Both work with children on healthy eating, healthy habits, as well as families and adults.  One group hit the kitchen to start mashing strawberries, make flour, and learn about pectin (an important ingredient to make jams and jellies thick and jell).  Working with Mrs. Christy our youth learned about measuring, cracking eggs, and helped make some whole grain chocolate chip cookies.  After a brief snack our groups switched so everyone got a chance to do everything.  After so much work it was time to take a break for lunch.  Mr. Larry brought his cooker by and grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for us while Mrs. Margaret made us French fries.  We also had some carrots and celery on the side.  After making sure we were really full it was time to get back at it.

We worked with Mrs. Janice to make our own biscuits from scratch and we learned how to use spoons to divide up cookie dough so we could bake our cookies.
 We worked so hard it seems like our day flew by.  Before we knew it Mrs. T was there to work with us on our EFNEP lesson.  We talked about our daily servings and played games trying to figure out what makes a healthy meal.  Then she made us healthy strawberry smoothies using real strawberries, yogurt, ice, and apple juice.  they were so good some of us even had two.
  When it was time to go home we had some awesome strawberry jam, buscuits, and cookies to take home and share.  Tomorrow is our last day of 4-H Cloverbud day camp and we are looking forward to having a happily ever after ending.