Miss Linda's suggestion for cooking with Eric Carle

LADYBUG MUFFINS

Cooking with Eric Carle

For a fun cooking lesson, try making Ladybug Muffins after reading Eric Carle’s “The Grouchy Ladybug”!    Simply take an English muffin, sliced it in half, and toast it.   While the muffin is toasting, put a scoop of creamed cheese in a bowl, add yellow and red food coloring, and mix it together until it is orange.    Then spread it on the cooled muffins, and added raisins for spots.  You could also use chocolate chips!

While cooking, you can focus on the following language concepts with your child:

• Half/whole
• Hot/warm
• Cold/cool
• Colors (red, yellow, orange)
• Actions “spread” and “mix”
• Counting with one-to-one correspondence (raisins)
• Mixing red and yellow creates orange
• Responding to “What’s missing?” (show a muffin with orange creamed cheese but no raisins/spots)