Pirate food

Pirates had revolting food! Mel and I thought that the only way to really get the children to realise how hard life was was to explore it .... so we did! We made 'ships biscuits' out of flour and water and left them in the sun to dry ( no electricity or fridges!)

Strangely enough the children couldn't wait to taste them! When they did they even tapped them to make sure no weevils came out before they ate them! Too precious!

Next we embarked on an adventure to Paradise Valley! The children boarded the ship - the bus-  which became known as the Jolly Roger! We set sail to our island Paradise Valley! What excitement there was! We had to celebrate our coming ashore with a tot of 'beer' and 'rum'! ( thank goodness for ginger beer and red non alcoholic champagne!) 

Having celebrated our arrival the pirates then went on to make pirate food! Mel and I had divided them beforehand into groups of four and each group was responsible for making a type of food! They made a fire .....

The next step was to cook the food.
Ingredients consisted of boiled sardines, onions in water ; potato, onions, ships biscuits cooked in vinegar ; oats, salt, butter and sugar ; and lastly bully beef oats and water! Oh my gosh did they have fun! 

This just stinks tooooo much!

And then came the testing - which was the best!

Mel and I were taken aback at how many actually ate the food - they became real pirates!

We ended up doing a real treasure hunt where each group created six clues using compass directions and another group had to find where the treasure was located! We all went home exhausted but so happy!