I am a rain lover. I love clouds that hide the sun, the sound of rain on the windows and patio while I’m inside cooking or resting, and watching the kids jumping and laughing in rain puddles. Gray, rainy days are my favorite days! I love them so much I don’t ever want to teach my kids the song, “Rain, rain, go away” because who would ever want to wish the rain away? 🙂 (I need to find a happy rain song~ any ideas?)
I don’t think Lucy would choose rainy days as her favorite. I think she’s more like the majority of people and loves the sun. But, one thing she does love about rainy days is that we sometimes make sun bread!
We’ve had a string of windy, rainy days recently so Lucy and I pulled out our favorite rainy day book, Sun Bread
Baking bread is relaxing and fun to do with the kids. And with all the steps and waiting with baking bread, it’s perfect for a rainy day where you are spending most of the day inside the house.
We made a mini sun bread today because we were short on yeast. Lucy loved doing most of the work on her own. We tried to involve Theo, but he wanted none of it (except the eating). He entertained himself doing imaginary baking with my spice jars in the play kitchen.
Here’s Lucy making the dough.
And kneading the dough.
And here we are trying to convince Theo to knead the dough. That’s his little tushy crawling away in the bottom, left corner.
Lucy making her sun bread.
Theo kept busy raiding the pantry for anything he could get his hands on. He pretended to pour and sprinkle everything in a bowl he found. Although he refused to take part in the actual bread making, he was at least supportive of the idea of baking in his own way.
The finished bread!
Perfect dipped in honey on a cold, rainy day!
What are some of your favorite things to do inside on rainy days?
What a lovely idea! The bread looks wonderful as does those beautiful curls!
Thank you! I do love the curls, still learning how to manage them! 🙂
What a fun way to brighten a rainy day – although I agree rainy days are not always so bad.
I’m so thrilled you shared this with Cozy Book Hop!
Marissa
http://forfunreadinglist.blogspot.com
I always feel like baking on cloudy days! Mmmm!
Me too! I think Lucy sometimes hopes for a rainy day just to have an excuse to make more sun bread! 🙂
Looks lovely. How fun to make food to go along with a book. Great idea! Thanks for linking up to tip-toe thru tuesday.
Looks yummy. We haven’t made bread like this before. I”ll have to put the bread machine away so we can “really” make it! 🙂
What a wonderful way to spend a rainy day! We will have to check out the book. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
This is such a darling idea! Thanks for stopping by and sharing this week.
This is fantastic! I love to make bread with my son. It’s good times. I love that there is a picture book to go along with it. I will DEFINITELY be checking this out and then making some sun bread, too. 🙂 You’ve inspired me.
Thank you for the great post!
Looks delicious! Thanks for linking up to The Children’s Bookshelf.