At Selly Oak Nursery, we encourage children to think about

making or creating things to raise some money. We talked to

the children about how we celebrate Christmas and what we

could do to raise funds for our school. With adult support, we

came up with the excellent idea of making mince pies and

selling them to the children’s families after our Christmas

Performance. Here are some of the photos taken during this

project.

To start off with the children required some money to

purchase the ingredients to make the mince pies. In these

photos you will see that they are handling the money, counting

it and putting it in their purses.

Once the children had collected the money, they sat down and

explored the different coins and notes and tried to identify

the numbers and (with adult support) the value.

Now that the children had the money, they needed to go

shopping for the ingredients to make the mince pies.

After the children had purchased the ingredients they went

back to the Nursery to make the mince pies.

The children had lots of fun measuring the ingredients,

mixing them all together to make their pastry. They enjoyed

rolling out the pastry, using the cutters, to cut out circles and

adding the fruit mince to create their pies. Here is a

photograph of the final product ready to sell to the children’s

families.

Now that the mince pies were cooked and ready to eat, the

children were very excited to sell them to their families.

After the children’s Christmas Performance, the mince pies

were sold to the parents. Here are some of the photographs