Time Travelling Tasters Activity Pack - Discovering Black History Through Cultural Baking

Time Travelling Tasters: Discovering Black History Through Bakes.

An educational baking adventure through black history, ideal for children aged 5–12.

Step into your baking time machine and explore the rich cultures, heroic stories, and delicious bakes of Jamaica, the USA, Uganda, Barbados, Sudan, and the UK!

Time Travelling Tasters is a beautifully designed digital activity pack that combines history, food, creativity, and learning in a fun, child-led way. Whether you're a teacher, home educator, or a parent looking for a meaningful activity, this pack makes black history accessible, interactive, and delicious.

What’s Inside the Digital Pack?

✔️ 6 Easy Recipe Cards

Child-friendly bakes from around the world:

– Coco Bread (Jamaica)

– Cornbread (USA)

– Chapatis (Uganda)

– Spiced Coconut Rock Cakes (Barbados)

– Baseema Cake (Sudan)

– Sticky Ginger Cake (UK)

✔️ Step-by-Step Visual Guides

No baking experience? No problem. Each recipe is designed with minimal mess and maximum confidence in mind.

✔️ Hero Fact Files

Meet inspiring black historical figures like Nanny of the Maroons, Martin Luther King Jr., Vanessa Nakate, Rihanna, Abdul Rahman Al-Mahdi, and Akala through child-friendly fact cards.

✔️ Creative Reflection Activities

Each recipe includes a reflective writing or drawing prompt, and a personal link to help children connect heritage with hands-on baking.

✔️ Themed Criss-Cross Puzzles & Word Challenges

Puzzles designed for early readers and up, each one based on the ingredients, countries, and history explored throughout the pack.

✔️ Vibrant Colouring Pages

Baking & cultural scenes featuring deserts, beaches, tropical landscapes, and traditional ingredients, all in easy-to-colour styles for ages 5–10.

✔️ Educator & Parent Guidance Notes

Includes top tips and safety advice for using the pack at home or in school.

What Makes This Pack Different?

✅ Child-led, hands-on learning

✅ Links culture, courage, and creativity through baking

✅ Flexible for use at home or in the classroom

✅ Designed by an experienced baking educator with curriculum knowledge

✅ No specialist equipment or tricky ingredients needed

Perfect For:

• Home educators wanting to explore black history through immersive learning
• Primary school teachers looking for cross-curricular resources
• Parents who want low-prep, meaningful activities to do at home
• Clubs, themed weeks, black history month projects, or half-term activities

Let your child become a history-hopping baking explorer, and discover the incredible people, places, and flavours that shaped the world.

👉 Download Time Travelling Tasters today and start baking history!