Christmas / Spanish Celebration Day
Spanish Celebration Day
Children learn how Spain celebrates the festive season, share tapas-style foods for lunch and help make churros with educators.
How to run it
- Share how families in Spain celebrate, including the 6 January celebration.
- Prepare simple tapas-style foods together for lunch.
- Children mix churro dough; an educator handles all frying or bakes oven churros.
- Enjoy churros with cinnamon sugar for afternoon tea.
You will need
- churro ingredients
- cinnamon sugar
- tapas foods
- piping bag
- oven trays
Make it easier or harderYounger children dust churros with sugar; older children pipe and time them.
SafetyHot oil is educator-only; baked churros are a safer option. Check allergies and dietary needs.
My Time Our Place · Outcome 2, Outcome 4Learning about another culture's traditions connects children with their wider world.
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