Traffic Light Biscuits

My home at the moment is filled with the noises of toy car wheel screeching across the floor boards and the sounds of boys brooming past on their knees. So naturally most of the planned activities I invite the children to take part in surround transport. Last week we had great fun making our own traffic lights from home made biscuits.

The recipe is nice and simple which is great when your just starting off baking with children or if like me it's been a while.

Recipe

300g Flour

200g Butter 

100g Sugar 

Drop of Vanilla essence

Simply mix all the ingredients together and roll out before cutting into rectangles and popping in the oven on 160 degrees  for 10-15 minutes until golden brown.

The boys loved getting their hands messy kneading the dough and giving the rolling pin a go. The whole time we went through discussing what we needed to do including the colours, textures and shapes were using. 

Once baked the boys decorated the biscuits with royal icing and Smarties to match the order of the traffic lights, Tinnie on the other hand covered his biscuits in as much icing and Smarties as he could. 

For more activities supporting those interested in transport try these:

Traffic light collage

Transporting with diggers

Shape sticking bikes

DIY Tin boats