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A concoction is something you cook up on the spur of the moment with a bunch of ingredients and only an idea of what it will turn out to be. Kids are always concocting — in the kitchen, the sandbox, the mud, the bathtub. Concocting is their science — the way they explore and experiment and learn about the world around them.
This article features recipes that young children can cook up on the spur of the moment — if the right ingredients are available. The cook who originally concocted them guarantees the final product will look something like the original, but notexactly like it, since most amounts are approximate and no two concoctions are exactly alike anyway.
The only essential ingredient that happens not to appear on any list is imagination — the impulse or vision to throw in a dash of this or a dollop of that when it's not called for. With this magic ingredient, kids are truly concocting.
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Excerpted from the bookConcoctions, by Susan Pinkerton. ©1987 Monday Morning Books, Inc., P.O. Box 1680, Palo Alto, CA 94302.
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Pinkerton, S. Concoctions: Creative mixtures to make and enjoy. Early Childhood Educ J 17, 25–29 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01619322
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01619322