This may have been my favorite daycare theme day to date. Partly because my house smelled like cocoa all day long, but mostly because I got to end my day eating chocolate covered strawberries. Yum!
Chocolate Day was the perfect theme day to have as we began our Valentine Day crafts and activities. I took many of our chocolate sensory activities from last year (http://ashlen-kidspert.blogspot.com/2014/01/chocolate-y-sensory-play.html) and created a yummy activity filled day.
The kids painted hearts with chocolate paint. This time I used flour, water, and cocoa.
Chocolate play dough.This round of play dough I used our favorite salt dough recipe (1 cup of flour, 1 cup of salt, and up to 1 cup of water) and added cocoa to it. It was perfect because at the end of the week we made chocolate salt dough heart shapes (much like our salt dough ornaments at Christmas: http://ashlen-kidspert.blogspot.com/2014/12/week-in-review-december-8-december-12.html).
Everyone's favorite part of the day: making and decorating chocolate covered strawberries. We had white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate to dip the strawberries in and a variety of sprinkles. I wound up taking over dipping the strawberries and the kids used A LOT of sprinkles to decorate. The kids got to take a plate of them home to share with their families.