Print off the poster template so that your child can fill the poster with drawings of the performing biscuits at Biscuit bear’s circus. Once your child has heard the story a few times they will be able to tell it to you, in their own words, using the illustrations to help them. Watch the story Get your toddler to weigh the flour (200g)and cocoa powder (1 tbsp), and then add it to your mixing bowl. Carry on mixing then use your hands to bring it all together into a soft dough. My kids always really enjoy this part – getting to squash the mix with their hands and get a little bit messy.

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Mix them together using the paddle attachment of your mixer if you’re using one, a hand held mixer, or wooden spoon until the sugar and butter are light and fluffy. Create a display like the one in the window of the pastry shop. Could you create different displays to represent the seasons?You could decorate with currants for eyes, or add lots of decoration just like biscuit bear does. Be a circus performer Typically with these things, we had nothing planned the weekend we got him and the weather wasn’t great so we had to think a little creatively to have something to put in his diary. We love baking so that seemed like an obvious choice but I thought we should make it a little bit interesting and try to make biscuits that resembled our very own Everywhere Bear. Make a timeline showing the main events of the story and the approximate times that they might have taken place. While everything is mixing, chop up the chocolate into small pieces. Get your toddler to add it in to your dough mixture and give it one last mix so that everything is nicely combined.

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Retell the story in the form of a playscript. Make some puppets and use these to perform the story to an audience. Some of the illustrations show the reader how to brush their teeth. Can you create a set of instructions to teach others how to brush their teeth correctly? Investigate reversible and irreversible changes. Is the process of cooking biscuits reversible or irreversible? Why? At the start of the story, Horace is desperate to eat the biscuit bear. Write a persuasive letter to his mum asking her to allow him to eat the biscuit.Get your child to break the eggs, one at a time, into a small bowl. Add them to your bowl, mixing it a little between the additions of each egg. Guiding your child to choose the safer acts!) children can be circus performers too doing a head over heels (roly-poly) just like an acrobat. Or they could be a strong man and lift cardboard tube weights or try juggling with balls or bean bags. Make a poster Get your child to measure the butter (225g) and sugar (200g demerara, 150g caster) out and then add to a mixing bowl or freestanding mixer. If the butter isn’t already soft, pop it in the microwave for 10 seconds or so, just to make it easier to mix. Red Fox Age 3-7 When Horace makes a biscuit bear with his Mum, it looks delicious and he can’t wait to eat it. However his mum makes him wait, and in any case, it turns out the biscuit bear has other ideas about his future! This is a highly inventive story with lots to talk about in the detailed illustrations. Find out the prices of different types of biscuits. Use these for your own statistics / data handling activities or to create some word problems.