Pancake Day

We have such great fun on our Pancake Day celebration. Unfortunately this year’s Pancake Day fell on 16th February which collided with Chinese New Year but that doesn’t deter us from celebrating it. A lot of activities were carried out for the whole week during Pancake Day.

For the development of creativity, the children painted a pancake’s template and pasted some cut-out fruits. This is our initial activity because we believe that not all the children have seen or even tasted English/American pancake before. Thus this activity will provide them with a brief introduction of pancake.

During our tasting sessions, I made two types of pancakes; the British and the American. The British pancake is thin, flat cake, made out from batter and fried in a pan and is eaten with a dash of lemon juice and sprinkle of sugar. Whereas American pancake is thick and normally eaten with maple syrup. The children really enjoyed this session very much. They tried it with lemon and sugar or with jam …and the result? They definitely prefer pancake with jam. I was a little disappointed that most of them didn’t like their pancake with lemon and sugar because I,myself, loves it the traditional English way. But never mind, they still love PANCAKE.

 We also played Flipping Pancakes and of course Pancake Race. It was hilarious to see the children trying their hand in flipping the pancakes without dropping it on the floor.

The children were divided into two groups in Pancake Race. In this game, they have to hold a pan with a pancake and run to their friend who is waiting for them at the opposite end. At the end of the day the Grasshopper group won.