Flour Baby Project
This week sees the start of our year 6 'Flour Babies' experiment. We hope that these five days will teach them how to be responsible and the huge amount of effort it takes to care for something 24 hours a day...
The children will be given flour babies to look after from Monday 16th June to Friday 20th June. Below are the rules for how we’d like them to care for them:
- The flour babies must be kept clean and dry at all times. All fraying, staining and leakage of insides will be taken very seriously indeed.
- Flour babies will be weighed twice - once at the beginning and one at the end of the project - to check for any weight loss that might indicate casual neglect or mistreatment.
- No flour baby may be left unattended at any time, night or day. If you must be out of sight of your flour baby, even for a short time, a responsible babysitter must be arranged. A babysitter can look after your flour baby for a maximum of 2 hours per day.
- You must keep a daily record of your time with your flour baby (You can do this in your English lessons). Please make sure, however, that you take photographs/pictures to record key moments at home and email them to your teacher. These can then be added to your writing at the end of the week.
- Certain persons (who shall not be named until the experiment is over) shall make it their business to check on the welfare of the flour babies and the keeping of the above rules. These people may be parents, other pupils, teachers or the public.
Any help you can provide in making this experience as lifelike as possible would be greatly appreciated. In previous years, some parents have woken the 'parents' to 'feed' their new babies, if you are feeling particularly cruel!