Kanika G.'s Blog, page 3

Tania's seed germination project

Tania undertook a seed germination project. Mama gave her a clear plastic box and some paper towels.
She made the paper towels damp and spread them over the box.
In one half of the box she put fenugreek (methi) seeds and on the other side she put mustard (rye) seeds.



She put the box with the seeds in a clear plastic ziploc bag, sealed the bag and placed it on a window sill.


After 1 day this is what the seeds looked like:

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You can see that both the mustard and the fenugreek seeds have sprouted and have little white shoots coming out of them.
Now that the seeds had sprouted Tania took the box out of the ziploc bag and left it on the window sill.

After 2 days:

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The mustard is progressing faster than the fenugreek. You can already see little green leaves coming out of the mustard seeds. The fenugreek sprouts have become bigger but there is no sign of green leaves yet.

After 3 days:

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The mustard leaves have become bigger. The fenugreek sprouts are starting to show a tinge of green, you can see if you look carefully.


After 4 days:

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At this point Tania added a little mud. Now the mustard is not showing much change but the fenugreek is finally has tiny green leaves.


After 5 days:

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The fenugreek is growing some more. There is no visible change in the mustard.

After 6 days:

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The fenugreek is still showing progress with new bigger leaves.

At this point Tania's cat Kazoo ate both the mustard and the fenugreek leaves and the project ended.
Kazoo was very satisfied. This was the most tasty project Tania had undertaken so far.

Date Plum Jam

This is Tania's favourite jam. She makes toast. Puts a layer of butter followed by a layer of this jam for her afternoon snack. It is delicious. Mama is posting the recipe so you can try it.

Ingredients:

8 seedless black dates3 plums1 tea spoon cornstarch1 cup water


Procedure:

Chop the plums into big pieces and remove the seeds.Put dates, chopped plums and a cup of water to boil.When water boils, simmer and stir with wooden spoon pressing on the pieces of dates and plumsIn a few minutes the mixture should have a pulpy consistency with no large chunksMix the corn starch with some water to make a milky white liquid and add to the pulpy mixtureBring the mixture to a boil stirring continuously and simmer for another minute

Date plum jam is ready. Put it in a glass jar and eat it quickly.

Variation: You can add some tea leaves for flavour when you put the dates and plums to boil.

Tania makes a sock doll

Tania made a sock doll today. She took out one of her old socks. Mama gave her some discarded bills and old news paper.
She tore up the paper in to little pieces and made crumpled little balls. Then she stuffed the top of the sock so it bulged out.
Once she though it was sufficiently filled up to be the dolls head she used 2 cable ties about a centimetre apart to make the neck.

Then she stuffed the sock with more balls of paper to make the body. Mama cut the bottom of the sock down the middle.
Using a few rubber bands they made the legs. Tania  had some sticks with her and she used rubber bands to attach them
on to the doll to make hands. You could use matchsticks with the heads cut off.
Tania used a white board marker to draw the hair, eyes, nose and mouth.

Tania makes a sock doll

Tania made a sock doll today. She took out one of her old socks. Mama gave her some discarded bills and old news paper.
She tore up the paper in to little pieces and made crumpled little balls. Then she stuffed the top of the sock so it bulged out.
Once she though it was sufficiently filled up to be the dolls head she used 2 cable ties about a centimetre apart to make the neck.

Then she stuffed the sock with more balls of paper to make the body. Mama cut the bottom of the sock down the middle.
Using a few rubber bands they made the legs. Tania  had some sticks with her and she used rubber bands to attach them
on to the doll to make hands. You could use matchsticks with the heads cut off.
Tania used a white board marker to draw the hair, eyes, nose and mouth.

Tania makes a self potrait

Mama gave Tania a small ball of dough made from whole wheat flour.
Tania rolled it out in to an almost circular shape using a rolling pin.
Then she adjusted the shape a little so it looked like the picture above.
Mama gave her some permanent markers and Tania drew the hair, eyes, nose and mouth.
It looks like little Tania.

Tania makes a self potrait

Mama gave Tania a small ball of dough made from whole wheat flour.
Tania rolled it out in to an almost circular shape using a rolling pin.
Then she adjusted the shape a little so it looked like the picture above.
Mama gave her some permanent markers and Tania drew the hair, eyes, nose and mouth.
It looks like little Tania.