Let loose in the kitchen.
"Mum, we want to make flapjack…."
OK, here’s a recipe, off you go.
Really? We can just go and make it?
Yup. Just give me a shout when you have to use the cooker.
I let them loose for the first time with minimal supervision. Dino read the recipe and instructions, Mimi found all the ingredients and they decided on the sizes of mixing bowl, baking tray etc for themselves and weighed everything out. Dino melted the butter and syrup while Mimi mixed the dry stuff and crushed the cornflakes. Dino poured the mix into a lined baking tray (actually my roasting tray but good enough) and I did the in and out of the oven part. Dino washed up afterwards too - so that’s the whole process from start to finish.
They worked well together and produced slightly overcooked and a bit too hard but perfectly edible flapjack! They fancy making muffins next, I think that might happen on Thursday or Friday. Dino can make ace scrambled eggs too and we have enough for lunch tomorrow.
Dino’s been working on knots too and there are bits of string knotted on chairs, to each other and around action man legs all over the place. He’s actually rather good at it. He seems to have got the hang of slip, reef and clove hitch knots and what looks (according to the library book) like a cow hitch.
I think that’s plenty of education for one day and I’ve been surprised at how many areas they’ve covered. I’m quite impressed.
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- a few pages a day - it’s painfully slow but he’s doing it.
and given his tendency to tie things up I do wonder if encouraging the Cubs thing was such a good idea now….. 
I have a child voluntarily reading! He’s been eyeing up the HP’s for a while now and I don’t mind really but we did have a short chat about there being some books in the house that really aren’t for him yet and he could do with just asking - but that also I will never deny him a book without a good reason. 
