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Baking Memories
The fourth annual Baking Memories is scheduled for December 2011. You can place your cookie order for your holiday gatherings and office holiday parties.
Do you have special memories of baking holiday cookies with your mother and grandmother? Baking cookies has been a family tradition for hundreds of years. The simple pleasure of baking cookies brings the family together, it is a time for laughter, fun and sharing love. As women are rebuilding their lives and their families, they are looking for opportunities to build new and healthy raditions with their children. Encouraging children cooking is great for creating a healthy eating habit while improving self confidence and self esteem. Cooking with children encourages creativity, an understanding of bad eating habits, responsibility and involvement. It requires hands on use of math concepts, planning, thinking, and time management.
Cooking with children provides opportunities for parenting and sibling bonding and mastery of new skills, as well as lots of fun! Yes, there can be downsides as well. For many parents there are fears around safety, wasting ingredients, too much mess, and squabbles around cleaning up!
While the Moms and their children are baking cookies for their homes, there are a number volunteers that are baking to fill cookie orders. The cookies that can be ordered include:
- Chocolate Chip
- Jelly Top Cookies
- Oatmeal;
- Peanut Butter
- Russian Tea Cookies
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Volunteers Jeff Faubert and Lee Carr coordinated Baking Memories. Mothers and their children received specially designed Baking Memories Aprons and shared the experience of measuring and mixing together ingredients to create tasty treats. Baking Memories is one step in establishing traditions and one step in reunifying healthy families.
Elk’s Lodge members volunteering for Baking Memories.
Baking Memories award to the Elk’s Lodge President and Jeff Faubert
Baking Memories - 2007
