Toast by moonlight
Someone has taken a moon-shaped bite out of breakfast. The missing moon is still on the chopping board.
Someone has been nibbling at breakfast, and they’ve left the shape of a perfect crescent moon behind. With a round cutter and a slice of toast, the elf turns the morning’s breakfast into a little puzzle about shapes and missing pieces.
It waits beside the board with a teaspoon, looking guilty, while the children work out how to put the moon back. It takes just a few minutes before breakfast and leads to plenty of chat about the moon, shapes and who really took that bite.
How to set it up
- Just before breakfast, use the cutter to cut a circle of toast. Move the cutter a little to one side and press it through the circle again to leave a crescent.
- Put the crescent beside the toast. Sit the elf next to the board with the teaspoon as its moon scoop.
- Can anyone rebuild the toast before the sun comes up?