![]() Note: You may wish to taste the flour at this point. Roughly chop the acorns into smaller (but not tiny) pieces. Using your food processor is the fastest way to do this, though you can use a knife and cutting board if you prefer. A soft, but firm, tap on the side of the acorn and they popped right open! Step 3: Chopping the Acorns I used a wooden board and a hammer for this. You can always throw the extras back to the animals if you have some left over. Get way more acorns than you need as some will be rotten when you open them up! Note: Two pounds of acorns will yield about three cups of flour. Stick with White, Burr, and Red Oaks if you can! However, Pin Oak and Black Oak acorns are going to be much more bitter. We had White Oaks around us, but you can use whatever type of oak acorns you can find. If you've ever cracked open an acorn and tried its contents, you may be thinking there's no way you want to eat a cookie out of them! But with these directions you'll be able to turn those bitter nuts into a very pleasant (not at all bitter) Chocolate Chip Cookie! I just printed them out, cut the paper right below the first paragraph, colored the leaves, and then stapled each one to the top of a Ziploc bag. You can download the tag I made here, without the school name. I made enough that the kids could each have one and then made a packaged one that the kids could share with their family. ![]() Some of the kids were a little hesitant about trying these slightly orange cookies, but once one child gave them to thumbs up, they were all eager for their share! So I did it at home by myself over the weekend and brought the finished products in first thing Monday morning. And I was a little.īut they were excited nonetheless! This would have been a great project to do with kids at home, but it didn't really lend itself to a classroom activity. Yes, they looked at me like I was insane. I told them that I was going to make chocolate chip cookies out of them! We filled up 2 gallon Ziploc bags in under 10 minutes! They were all so curious as to what I was going to do with these gathered treasures. I gathered all the kids around me and asked them to collect as many acorns as they could find. After about the millionth acorn that I pretended to pocket but let slip through my fingers to find its way back to the ground, I had what was to be a brilliant idea. Last year when I was still teaching Kindergarten acorns became a favorite thing for the kids to collect and "give" to me as I watched them play. Everything from funny looking twigs, to shiny rocks, and all things in between become gems to horde or give away. If you've ever been around young kids, you know that outside play can turn into a treasure hunt. Learning how to make acorn flour is a fun and useful fall activity for the whole family! Use it in your favorite recipes or store it for later!
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