Pretzels!

Continuing with Emma's botany block, we made pretzels earlier this week to explore yeast/the fungus kingdom. Last year Grace made pizza dough when we did this block. We thought it would be fun to do something different this year. As an added bonus, pretzels have a connection to the middle ages which was a nice tie in for Grace who's been learning about that time period for the last several weeks. Two blocks, one stone, total score! I love when that happens!  

Last Thursday

The girls and I spent last Thursday morning making pretzels and singing while we worked (the Pandora station we were listening to totally hit it out of the park that day)! It was so fun to see them get so excited each time they twisted another pretzel, and such a nice way to spend a morning. It was the first time that they had made pretzels (and many moons since the last time that I made them too). We agreed that this was a tradition we surely wanted to make sure happened each year before Easter!