Scribe's Tablets Craft & Banana Oatmeal Muffins

I consider my self a Jill-of-all-trades.

I cook, I clean, I cuss, I teach Sunday School. 

When we came back to Hawaii we knew we would probably have to pick up a lot of random odd jobs around the church in exchange for our housing.  In addition to playing the drums, being the Property Manager and Facebook group admin I also became the Sunday School planner/teacher. 

Not exactly my strong suite.  So thank goodness, once again, for Pinterest, and all these other inspired Sunday School teachers and for the [literally] stacks of books I cleaned out of the Sunday School room.  

So here's our lesson plan from today!  I get so many ideas from everyone willing to take their time to post the things they do so I thought I could do the same. 

These would also work really well for homeschooling to help teach letters or numbers cause you can just "erase" the board each time.  Plus they get to eat it when they're all done! 

Scribe's Tablets

adapted from the book More Than Mud Pies

You will need:

Quart size freezer bags

Milk

Food Coloring

Vanilla Instant Pudding Mix

[1 large box made about enough for 6 kids]

1/4 measuring cup

Tablespoon measuring spoon

[1] Give each kid a resealable bag.

[2] In each bag pour 1/4 cup milk, 2 tablespoons pudding mix & a few drops of food coloring.

The mix is kinda yellow so blue will turn green, red will turn orange, etc. 

[3] Seal the bags tightly getting as much air out of them as you can.

[4] Have the kids knead the bags, it will turn thick pretty quickly! 

[Lily with her tablet.  She will use any excuse to wear a fancy dress!]

From there you can do whatever you want!  We drew pictures of the cross, wrote our names, etc.  Depending on who is preaching that day our class can be pretty short so this took the perfect amount of time.  Then the kids can eat their pudding! 

We also learned this verse to go along with the erasing or "hiding" of the pictures.

Sundays are also are most hectic morning, Andy works 6 days a week now and Sunday is one of them.  We actually get to spend a lot more time together so we're not complaining about it but it does make an already busy morning even busier! 

He works until about 9am and then we have to be downstairs at church by 10am for band practice, Sunday School set-up etc.  This doesn't seem too early but as you know I hate waking up early and making sure 3 kids under 6 are also fed & dressed, not to mention my coffee made, always makes for a little chaos. 

So I decided to be pro-active this week and last night I made these Banana Oatmeal Muffins for an easy breakfast with some fruit and yogurt.  We had 3 brown bananas left from our big Costco bunch and I was intrigued by the no flour idea so it was perfect!  These are pretty dense muffins because of how they're made but super easy, filling, and everyone liked them so we will definitely try these again.  Maybe next time with a little maple syrup?  Yum.

Banana Oatmeal Muffins

adapted from http://travisjessjones.blogspot.com

2 1/2 cups oats

1/2 plain Greek Yogurt

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. baking soda

2 over ripe bananas

 [1] Place all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.

[2] Grease a 12 cup muffin-tin.  

For this recipe don't use paper liners, they will stick.  Just grease your pan or use silicone liners if you have them. 

[3] Bake at 400 degrees F for 20-25 minutes. 

Grab one & go!