¡Mira! Ideas for Teachers!
Non-toxic recipe for hands-on tortilla-making fun to complement MAGDA'S TORTILLAS - LAS TORTILLAS DE MAGDA
Provided for teachers and parents for reproduction and use with students. Courtesy of Becky Chavarría-Cháirez, author of Magda's Tortillas & Magda's Piñata Magic, fully bilingual children's picture books published by
Arte Público Press/Piñata Books 800-633-ARTE
Storage tip:
This masa is non-toxic and inexpensive to make. Store it in the fridge and it will last for many months!
INGREDIENTS
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1 cup all-purpose flour |
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1 cup water |
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1 tablespoon cooking oil |
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1/2 cup salt |
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2 teaspoons cream of tartar |
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food coloring optional |
EQUIPMENT: wooden spoon, medium-sized pot
Directions
Remember: Have a grown-up help you in the kitchen, have fun and DO clean up!.
1. Combine everything in the pot.
2. Stir constantly over medium heat. Mixture will solidify all of a sudden!
Keep stirring until it becomes a mass. Turn off heat.
3. Place the dough on a clean counter to cool.
4. Then, knead the dough until it is silky smooth. Your pretend masa is ready!
5. On a clean work surface, shape it, roll it, cut it -- make pretend tortillas a la Magda!
Have a Magda-nificent tortilla-making party!
Ideas for Teachers!
* Teach shapes, colors, measuring skills
* Improve eye/hand coordination
* Reinforce manners & cooperation
* Role-play
Teach colors - Use food coloring to create batches of red, yellow, green and blue masa.
Playing restaurant, have the children make menus and take food orders. "Cooks" prepare
orders for an array of dishes featuring tortillas.
Blue tortillas made of blue corn. Yellow tortillas made of yellow corn. Red and Green masa
makes red or green enchiladas.
Teach shapes - Create round, square, rectangular, oval, triangular and other shapes.
Allow kids to manipulate the masa by hand, or to roll the dough and trace/cut out their shapes.
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