P is for popcorn

This week Abel learns the letter P at Kidszone. They made popcorn on the popcorn maker and a bunch of other activities. Abel asked to make popcorn at home so I researched on making popcorn on the stove.

This activity is also excellent for Noel i.e he was able to apply fractions while reading the recipe.

I bought a bag of popping corn from the supermarket and Noel read the recipe. As I wanted to double the recipe he needs to decide total cup of popcorn to use and the amount of oil.

 

Here, Noel is helping to mix the honey evenly on the popcorn while Abel is busy eating his portion of popcorns.

 

For this activity:

 

We used:

 

2/3 cups popping corn

4 tbsp of oil

One pot and lid 

 

As we heat up the oil, we put in the popping corn.

Due to lack of experience and 2 super excited kids, we popped a whole pot of popcorns but because I wasn't 'shaking' the pot enough, quite a bit of popcorns were burnt underneath.

 

We flavoured the popcorns with manuka honey.  The above box will be tomorrow's snack.