Month: March 2020

Greetings Good Health Heroes,

The last time I wrote, I promised you a mystery. I’ve also been thinking about a game we can play so that while we are home we can practice our cooking skills and have lots of fun. I want to make delicious dishes with home ingredients.

So let’s play my Pantry Puzzle Game.

First, I will give you a mystery to solve. I’ll post a photo of an important kitchen tool, and you tell me what that kitchen tool is. And then, we’ll use that mysterious cooking tool as we cook together.

Next, we will create recipes from the foods we find in our home.

Can I tell you a secret? Sometimes, even when I don’t have to stay home, I like to play the Pantry Puzzle Game. I look at the ingredients that I have in my house and use them to create a recipe. Right now it is better to say home and use what we have rather than go to the grocery store every time we think of something new to cook.

This is today’s mystery tool.

The mystery photo is of a sanitizing wet wipe. We use them to wipe and sanitize our counters before cooking. Remember. Never flush wipes down the toilet. They will clog and block our sewer pipes, and that would make me sad.

If you’d like to play the Pantry Puzzle Game just email me with ingredient ideas to use in our next recipe. If you send me three or more ingredients that you have in your home, I’ll tell you what you can make with them.

Today’s Pantry Puzzle Game recipe comes from a friend who lives in Chicago, Illinois. He wanted muffins. He had a cake mix, but he had no eggs, oil, or milk. But he did have a can of pumpkin. It turns out that you can mix one can of pumpkin with one box of cake mix and NOTHING ELSE to make delicious cakes or muffins! Click here https://carltoncooks.com/make-two-ingedient-pantry-puzzle-muffins/to learn how to make Pantry Puzzle Muffins.

So let’s be Good Health Heroes. Email your ingredient ideas to me. Wash your hands, and let’s cook!

Love,

Carlton

Hello to my Good Health Heroes!

What’s up? How are you feeling? Tell me a story.

Coronavirus-19 will not stop our stories! We can write while we are at home. Some of you may have brought your journals home, and if you did then it is fine to write your stories in them. Some of you may have notebooks from home that you can use. And some of you may not be able to find a notebook at all, and that is it fine, too. Long ago, before anyone had even invented notebooks, do you know what people did?

They told their stories. People gathered around campfires, under the stars, at dinner tables, or under blanket forts on their living room floor, and they told their stories to each other. I like to tell my stories to Henry and Ella, or to my friend Rock Lobster. So each day that I post a picture, I want you to think about what I’ve posted and tell a story about it. You can write your story in a notebook, or you can tell your story to the grownups or other family members in the house, or you can find your own special friend like Rock Lobster and tell your stories to them.

Your stories are yours. Your pictures are yours. Your art is yours. And in all of those things you can talk about anything you would like to talk about. Coronavirus-19 has made us change the way we live our lives for now. It is ok to be scared about that and it is ok to be mad. But we don’t have to let Coronavirus-19 stop our stories or take away our fun! We can dance around our living rooms and be happy. It is is ok to play, and write stories and make art. We are going to live our lives at home, wash our hands a lot, and make this virus go away as fast as we can.

If you want to, you can email your stories to me. I will email you back. Or you can save the stories inside your mind to share with me later. We’ll see each other again soon.

Don’t forget. Every time you wash your hands with soap and water https://carltoncooks.com/good-cooks-use-soap-and-water-for-clean-hands/ while you count to 20, or as you sing a very long song, you are making Coronavirus-19 go away. YOU are helping the world. YOU are a Good Health Hero!

Stay Healthy, and remember, I think you are Paw-some!

Love,

Carlton

PS- Check back soon. I’ll have a mystery for you to solve, and a game for you to play.

Hello My Friends,

I know that it came as a surprise to have school cancelled just before Spring Break. 

And I know that many of you don’t like changes when they come as a surprise. I don’t like surprise changes either. I like to plan for my changes. I think many grown-ups don’t like surprise changes. And if some of them seem upset right now, it is because they are just like us and were stressed by the surprise change in their plans.

This is what we know:

We need to stay home to stop Coronavirus-19! Coronavirus-19 is a germ like many other germs. Coronavirus-19 loves to hide in the same places that other germs hide, like on our hands. Coronovirus-19 is a bit stronger than other germs and really likes to make older people like Grandfathers and Grandmothers, our Abuelas y Abuelos, sick. Some of us could have the germ on our hands and never even know it because the germ might never make us sick. But even though we might not get sick, we don’t want to pass the germs to others, especially the older people in our life.  We want to stop the spread of germs and make Coronavirus-19 go away fast!

So this is what we do.

First, just imagine if every single one of us at our school got sick at the same time on the same day. Imagine that we all felt sick enough that we needed to go to the nurse. The line to the nurse’s office would wrap around the school and there would not be enough space for all of us to fit in the room. And our nurse would not have enough time to see all of us.

But if we all stayed home, we would keep our germs to ourselves until they disappeared. And if some of us did get sick, we could go to the nurse as we needed to, and there would be plenty of room in the office. Soon the germ would disappear because we kept it away from so many people.

And that is why school was cancelled and we are staying home. Our job is to stay at home, wash our hands often, and keep Coronavirus-19 from spreading until we make this germ go away! Together, we will be Good Health Heroes!

Fortunately, for us, we are Good Cooks! So we already know how to wash our hands. Click here https://carltoncooks.com/good-cooks-use-soap-and-water-for-clean-hands/ if you want to remember the last time we talked about washing hands.

So, stay home to stop Coronavirus-19! And if you want to email me, remember, I will always write back.  I will be looking for activities that we can do together as we stay in our own homes, so come back often!

Stay Healthy, and remember, I think you are Paw-some!

Love,

Carlton