In Nursery, when children have their 4th birthday each child gets to celebrate by baking their own birthday cake! The birthday child chooses 3 friends to help bake their cake. They do everything themselves (apart from putting it in the oven and taking it out when it is cooked). Many areas of learning are covered in this special activity.
The children follow step by step instructions on the recipe card (Literacy); they measure all the ingredients (Mathematics); they use different utensils (Physical Development); they notice the changes to the mixture as each ingredient is added (Understanding the World – Science); they choose their own decorations (Expressive Art and Design) and finally, the birthday child shares the finished cake with their friends at snack time and the teachers if we are lucky! (Personal, Social and Emotional Development).
At the moment of lighting the candles on the cake, we put on a vinyl record on our record player and listen and singalong to Stevie Wonder’s ‘Happy Birthday’ hit!
We think you will see, birthdays in Nursery are so much fun – and also quite delicious😉
