“The Valentine Bears” by Eve Bunting and Jan Brett
That’s the sweetest little Valentine’s Day e information! It is the story of Mrs Bear and Mr Bear have on no account celebrated Valentine’s Day collectively due to their hibernation. Nonetheless, Mrs Bear is prepared that this Valentine’s Day could very nicely be completely fully fully completely different. She wakes up in February to get barely bit Valentine’s Day celebration ready for Mr. Bear and may get barely bit shock of her private when she is ready and wakes him as somewhat quite a bit as participate on the pleasurable.
Jan Brett’s illustrations on this story have a comfy and timeless actually truly actually really feel to them that add to the prevailing sweetness of this story! It’s one which you must to verify repeatedly yearly and is for certain to face the verify of time.
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Chocolate Almond Flies
All by way of the story, part of Mrs Bear’s preparations for his or her celebration is meals. (The fact is! What celebration doesn’t have good meals?!) The two treats she saved for Valentine’s day are a jar of honey and some crispy, crunchy bugs. When she wakes up Mr. Bear she discovers that he has a valentine for her too! He has picked out chocolate coated ants for her and she or he is thrilled!
My children and I found these “bug snacks” so endearing and I was impressed to create some “bug snacks” as our private to pair with the story. I am ridiculously happy with these lovable little flies that we made and am so excited to share them with you!
Suplies/Elements:
- chocolate coated almonds (I acquired ours at our native grocery retailer and opted for “bulk bin” ones in its place of bagged on account of they appeared bigger. You want essential ones yow will uncover so you’ll have gotten room for eyes and wings.)
- sliced almonds (I bought these pre-sliced at our grocery retailer. They’re usually pretty easy to hunt out contained within the baking aisle.
- candy eyes (I used these Wilton mannequin ones.)
- baking/melting chocolate (This acts due to the “glue” to assemble your complete factor.)
- Software program program program: I used a piping bag to pipe on the melted chocolate “glue” whereas assembling. You’ll be able to even use the cut-off nook of a ziplock bag.
Course of:
- Soften the chocolate per the instructions on the packaging and scoop into your piping bag. Within the discount of off the tip of your bag so you can pipe, you don’t want the opening to be huge on account of the chocolate ought to maneuver out merely.
- Using you piping bag, pipe out a layer of chocolate on top-of-the-line of a chocolate coated almond (guarantee you have bought ample to work as an excellent adhesive). Then, shortly earlier than it dries, press two almond slivers for wings not the underside a part of the melted chocolate and two candy eyes on top-of-the-line. Place on a wire cooling rack to dry. (The wire cooling rack retains them upright whereas they dry.)
- Allow to completely cool so the chocolate can harden and maintain your complete factor collectively. Look after fastidiously, even when cooled, the wings could very nicely be fragile.
- Tip: I form of like how the completed flies topple over in quite a few directions when completed, nonetheless to just be sure you them to face upright merely you can slice-off/stage the bottoms of the chocolate coated almonds earlier than assembly.
- Tip: Assemble each fly one after the alternative on account of melting chocolate can cool shortly.
These flies take merely minutes to assemble they normally look so darn cute as quickly as they’re completed. My toddler’s faces lit up as rapidly as they seen them they normally had been so excited to eat them. Have you ever ever ever ever seen that right correct proper right here is just one subject relating to the thought-about “consuming bugs” that children get a kick out of or is it merely mine?
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