Making Matariki Star Biscuits

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As part of our Matariki celebrations in Week 9, we spent the morning creating our own star biscuits!

The ingredients, equipment and recipes were set out at 4 work stations and we worked in small groups.   One person at each area was chief photographer and we also had a team leader who was responsible for organising team members to ensure that everyone was involved.

This activity required us to:
- listen to one another
- participate and help out
- suggest ideas
- read the recipe
- measure ingredients
- follow the instructions
- work as a team














We had a fantastic morning baking and creating and even learnt some new baking terms like 'knead the dough'.

The biscuits tasted delicious!!!

Where to next...
- create instructions for others to make their own biscuits.
- how can we use the skills we have learned and transfer these into other activities?




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