“The Valentine Bears” by Eve Bunting and Jan Brett
That’s the sweetest little Valentine’s Day e book! It is the story of Mrs Bear and Mr Bear have on no account celebrated Valentine’s Day collectively as a result of their hibernation. Nonetheless, Mrs Bear is set that this Valentine’s Day could be fully totally different. She wakes up in February to get slightly bit Valentine’s Day celebration ready for Mr. Bear and can get slightly bit shock of her private when she is ready and wakes him as a lot as participate on the pleasurable.
Jan Brett’s illustrations on this story have a snug and timeless actually really feel to them that add to the prevailing sweetness of this story! It’s one which you will need to study time and again yearly and is sure to face the verify of time.
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Chocolate Almond Flies
Throughout the story, part of Mrs Bear’s preparations for his or her celebration is meals. (The truth 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 kids 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 proud of 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 the most important ones yow will uncover so you 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 inside the baking aisle.
- candy eyes (I used these Wilton mannequin ones.)
- baking/melting chocolate (This acts as a result of the “glue” to assemble the whole thing.)
- Software 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. Cut back 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 the best of a chocolate coated almond (guarantee you have got ample to work as an excellent adhesive). Then, quickly sooner than it dries, press two almond slivers for wings not the underside a part of the melted chocolate and two candy eyes on the best. 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 keep the whole thing collectively. Take care of fastidiously, even when cooled, the wings could be fragile.
- Tip: I type of like how the completed flies topple over in a number of directions when completed, nonetheless to ensure that you them to face upright merely you can slice-off/stage the bottoms of the chocolate coated almonds sooner than assembly.
- Tip: Assemble each fly one after the other on account of melting chocolate can cool quickly.
These flies take merely minutes to assemble they normally look so darn cute once they’re completed. My little one’s faces lit up as soon as they observed them they normally had been so excited to eat them. Have you ever ever seen that proper right here is just one factor in regards to the thought of “consuming bugs” that children get a kick out of or is it merely mine?
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