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Pumpkin spice recipe mix
A country styled way to fill and store your pumpkin spice mix.
Mix of spices to add taste, aroma and actions to a range of dough ..
 
 

 

 
Use to sprinkle over the tables planned for playdough activities or over the dough itself -
Add to pumpkin cookies, pie, bread or scones - plain, fruit, cherry & chocolate ..

If you have time explore how the Cinnamon Bird was once the given reason for this aromatic spice appearing in the local stores and the price that was attached:
The cinnamon bird wikipedia and cinnamon cultivation
  Ginger root - allspice - nutmeg  
single pumpkin   RECIPE

These quantities make a 1/2 a small jam jar full of spice.
Use a sprinkler for table top activities or for less accurate flavouring of foods ..

4 Tsps Cinnamon
2 Tsps Ground Ginger
1 Tsp Allspice
1 Tsp Ground Nutmeg
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pumpkins ..
Jar labels have been published on Fiesty's printables page
Colour or black and white
Make pumpkin shaped labels to decorate spice filled jars ..   
To decorate your Jar
orange   Use a length of frayed calico fabric and with the glue gun attach a strip to the body of the jar and a circular piece to the lid.
orange  Lay a second line of glue around the outer edge of the jar lid and gather the fabric as you progress fold the fabric downwards.
orange  Attach a label and finish off by tying a bow with lengths of orange ribbon and twine and gluing into place on top of the lid.
  . Resources needed to decorate the pumpkin spice jar
Sourcing storage jars and shakers ..
orange Jars - amazon affiliated links, fine dusting pot - dredger - shaker

Clcik to purchase jars with a range of coloured lids on Amazon ..
orange Pumpkin kittens mini topic adds resource, room decoration and hide and find game ideas to this spice page ..
 
 

 


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