Jam Making

The next best thing to picking strawberries, and eating them, is making jam.
This is something that all the children like to help with, especially the taste-testing part.
Last Saturday all my little helpers each had their own important jobs,
Isaac, Josephine, and Gabriella, helped hull the strawberries while Kenneth- Lee smashed them, and I read the directions while Abigail stirred the bubbling sugar, pectin, mixture.
After it was put into the jars, Isaac was in charge of putting the seals and lids on, and finally when all was finished, Stephen came in to help taste-test.

The result was two empty jars, and a lot of sticky faces, but also a lot of happy smiles,since then they have wanted to have jam with every meal, and if allowed we would be out by the end of the week.