ACTIVITIES FOR HOME & SCHOOL
Click here to download a printable activity guide for How Long Is Forever?. You can name the barn cat, follow Mason around the farm and think about what forever is for you!
FATHER'S DAY MASON JAR PROJECT
Watch the Mason Jar Video below and then put a twist on it to a create a heartfelt Father's Day Gift! Pop pictures of special moments, memories or things you will love FOREVER about your Dad into a mason jar and let Dad know that you will love him FOREVER.
On special Sundays, my Dad made us blueberry pancakes. I'll pop a picture of him flipping pancakes into my Father's Day Mason Jar. My Dad loves to wear cowboy hats. I love that about my Dad so I'll draw a picture of him in a cowboy hat for my jar. He is also excellent at fixing cars and I love that he will always be able to help me with my car. A picture of my Dad working on my car will make a great addition to my Father's Day Mason Jar. What will you put in your Father's Day Mason Jar?
On special Sundays, my Dad made us blueberry pancakes. I'll pop a picture of him flipping pancakes into my Father's Day Mason Jar. My Dad loves to wear cowboy hats. I love that about my Dad so I'll draw a picture of him in a cowboy hat for my jar. He is also excellent at fixing cars and I love that he will always be able to help me with my car. A picture of my Dad working on my car will make a great addition to my Father's Day Mason Jar. What will you put in your Father's Day Mason Jar?
RECIPES
I hope, like Mason, in How Long Is Forever? you will discover people and things that you will love forever. And I hope, like me, one of them will be blueberry pie!
If you’d rather not wait forev…umm, I mean a really long time for some blueberry dessert, clink on the links below for some deliciously easy minute blueberry cobbler in a mug recipes.
You can wait that long! Just read How Long Is Forever? one more time and the bing of the microwave will sound before you even finish the book!
If you’d rather not wait forev…umm, I mean a really long time for some blueberry dessert, clink on the links below for some deliciously easy minute blueberry cobbler in a mug recipes.
You can wait that long! Just read How Long Is Forever? one more time and the bing of the microwave will sound before you even finish the book!
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My Grandmother's Blueberry Tea Cake Recipe
As a kid, I used to collect blueberries by canoe along a pond between my home and my grandparent's home. Our canoe would glide into bushes and we'd squeal as cobwebs clung to our face and arms! But we still filled our Tupperware container full of wild blueberries and proudly delivered our bounty to my grandmother. Here is the recipe she often made with our blueberries. (That's her handwriting on her recipe card!)
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Nanny's Blueberry Tea Cake
2 Cups Sifted Flour 2 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Salt 1/4 Cup Softened Butter 3/4 Cup Sugar 1/2 Cup of Milk 1 Egg 2 Cups of Blueberries |
Combine all ingredients and bake in greased 9 in square pan. Sprinkle top with crumb mixture before baking. Baking at 375 for 40-45 minutes.
Crumb Topping: 1/2 Cup Sugar 1/2 tsp Cinnamon 1/4 Cup Flour 1/4 Cup Softened Butter |
A Baking Day with Grandparents
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My parents brought this cookbook back from a trip to Arizona. Making the recipes in the book gives them a chance to chat about the trip with their grandchildren.
Blueberry Cinnamon Crumb Coffee Cake or Muffins
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Batter:
1/4 cup shortening 3/4 cup sugar 1 egg 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup milk 2 cups fress blueberries (or frozen thawed and drained) Topping: 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, softened |
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In bowl of electric mixer, cream together the shortening and sugar. Add egg and beat well. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt, and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beating after each addition. Fold in the blueberries. Pour batter into a greased and floured 9 inch round cake pan or into muffin pan. Set aside.
Prepare the topping. Mix together the sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Cut in the butter until mixture is crumbly. Sprinkle the topping over the batter. Bake 30-35 min for muffins and 45-50 for cake or until toothpick comes out clean. Yield 12 servings. |
My Favorite Three Berry Pie
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This is my favorite blueberry pie. A friend who is also a teacher shared this recipe with me and I make it ALL the time! Thanks Elaine Picard! We use blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. But you can substitute blackberries for the raspberries - or add both! Just make sure the total berries you use adds up to 2 pints!
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Ingredients
1/2 pint of blueberries 1 pint of strawberries 1/2 pint of raspberries 3/4 cup of sugar 1/4 cup of Tapioca 1 Pie crust (top and bottom) Sprinkle of sugar |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Wash all the berries and slice the strawberries. Mix first 5 ingredients in a large bowl. Stir gently so as not to mush the berries. Precook the bottom pie crust in a pie plate for 8-10 minutes. Pour berry mixture into pie crust. Cover with pie crust top and crimp edges - poke a few vent holes in the top. Sprinkle with sugar. Cook for 45 min with tin foil lightly covering the pie. Remove foil for last 5 minutes of baking. Serve warm with ice cream! |
BLUEBERRY CRAFTS
A Slice of Pie
Supplies:
Piece of Pie coloring page
blue paint
pencil with eraser or Q-tip (or blue construction paper dots and a glue stick if you prefer not to use paint)
Small paper plate
Supplies:
Piece of Pie coloring page
blue paint
pencil with eraser or Q-tip (or blue construction paper dots and a glue stick if you prefer not to use paint)
Small paper plate
- Print Piece of Pie coloring page (click here to get downloadeable page).
- Put a small amount of blue paint on the paper plate (or a few paper dots and give each child a glue stick).
- Use the Q-tip like a stamp. Dip it in the paint and make “blueberry” dots on your piece of pie (or paste blue dots on the pie).
Blueberry Pie
Supplies:
paper plate or white construction paper cut into a circle
strips of brown or manila-colored construction paper
blue construction paper (or blue paint or blue tissue paper)
glue sticks
coins
Supplies:
paper plate or white construction paper cut into a circle
strips of brown or manila-colored construction paper
blue construction paper (or blue paint or blue tissue paper)
glue sticks
coins
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Optional: Print a blueberry recipe to glue on the back. Recipes can be found by scrolling up. Children can also draw a picture of three things they will love forever on the back of their pie.