Today was a good transition from community helpers to all about me. It is Mary See’s birthday. She made candy and we love chocolate!
I got some coupon cards from Sees that had a picture of Mary with a birthday hat and they had a printable party hat on their website that I printed out for the chicks. We talked a little bit about her and then went into birthdays and ages. We decorated the party hats and made oreo truffles. The chicks mashed up oreos and poured it into a bowl of softened cream cheese. I thought it wasn’t sweet enough so I added a little sugar. (really, like only a Tbs.) I let them scoop a few then I finished them while they played. I froze the little balls for about 2 hours then coated them with a mix of part almond bark, part Sees milk chocolate chips and part Kirkland semisweet chocolate chips.
I found an “all about me, sensory bin” on this blog. I decided to do a similar idea but an All about me, I Spy jar.
I had cute cupcake puffy stickers so I wrote their birthdays on the backs of those. I had a lot of beads so we did pink flower beads for their sisters and blue ones for their brothers. They all have 2 sisters so that was kind of funny. I had jewel stickers so they picked the one that was their favorite color. I wrote their age on a foam flower. I wanted to do a tape measure but thought that wouldn’t work too well, so after some quick brainstorming I made a construction paper ruler/tape measure. I debated just having the letters in their names loose in the jar but decided it would be make more sense for them to have their letter form their names. I strung them on a pipe cleaner and added that. I’m glad I decided to go that route, I found some extra letters in their jars! A couple other things, (that I didn’t do. Yet.) add pictures of each chick and her family members and fill with rice or beans.
When the truffles were done I put them in paper cups and “boxed” them in old deli meat plastic containers. I wish I had saved candy boxes but I hadn’t planned that far ahead. (See’s only sent me the email about Mary’s birthday 2 weeks before!) Pooh is holding one that I emptied the day before, not all in one day!
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