to feel a bit bemused by these charity biscuits?

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DS' nursery sent round a letter saying that the children would be making biscuits to take home and please could we donate £1 for them to go towards their charity collection. Fine.

I was expecting three or four wonky biscuits like this. What was handed to me at pickup was a rich tea biscuit with a single blob of icing in the middle, wrapped in a paper towel.

Is that normal or would you have been a bit too? I wouldn't have minded if it was just something he did as part of a normal day but I think it's a bit cheeky. AIBU?

Erm, that's icing biscuits, surely, not actually making them! YANBU!

Oh and I bet the paper towel was stuck to the icing. Yuk.

YANBU!

Oh my sons nursery used to do that!

Oh yes, I remember soggy rich teas covered in icing and sprinkles very well

Well thats a bit shit isnt it?

YANBU

Does the nursery have an oven on site? I would have thought most nurseries wouldn't, so actually making biscuits would be impossible!

There's surely a no cook flapjack recipe they could do. I'd be pretty miffed if i had paid towards something like you received. But Ds' preschool did that as a no charge fun activity at Halloween.

DIY yes, they have an oven as all meals are cooked on-site and the children made fairy cakes a few weeks ago too.

So other nurseries do the rich tea thing too? Ok. I didn't even get sprinkles though :(

No sprinkles? Demand you money back!

A strongly worded letter? :o

I remember the time I was bemused by charity biscuits. I didn't get out of bed for months.

Our school do this sort of thing, I always though the point was the charity collection and the biscuit was just a secondary activity. I wonder why they dont just put a jar outside the class rather than faffing with biscuits sometimes!

:o sole you poor sensitive thing, you.

If they'd said 'Bring a £1 for charity' I wouldn't have blinked. Strange.

My Dd's nursery used to do this. Ah I miss those horrible biscuits! We paid £1 once for comic relief I think. I don't see why you were expecting gourmet type things from a bunch of toddlers in a shitty little nursery.

The children probably loved decorating their biscuits and proudly putting them on their bit of kitchen roll to show you and to do their bit for charity. It's a lovely way to teach children about giving to others less fortunate, stop being such a miser!

It's quite a nice nursery actually. I wasn't expecting artistic perfection but for a nearly 3yo to have done something more than blob a single spot of colourless icing onto a shop-bought biscuit.

My 2 year-old DS came home with charity biscuits last week - but they made the biscuits themselves then decorated them with icing and sprinkles. Does that make it a posh nursery then? (Even though it's only £32 a day.)