Valentine Candy & A Little Devil
As I mentioned yesterday in my FFF, Luz & I had a special project to work on Monday while she spent the day with me! We didn't really mind that it was the day AFTER Valentine's Day... we were still "in season".
THIS was the kit! (take note of what the candy on the box looks like...)
OURS won't look like that!
This really was an easy little project because it was all
microwavable! It gave directions for doing it this way
OR doing the double boiler on the stove... Um... THIS
way is 10 times LESS messy! All we did was pour the
pre-sorted colors into the 4 separate squeeze bags and
nuke 'em for a few minutes... squooshin' inbetween...
and then they were ready.
We just did ONE color at a time and found that they docool rather quickly! Luz started out trying to paint the
details in the molds first... that wasn't happening! The
melted chocolates cooled far too quickly. So squeeze it is!
She was very creative with it, putting this colorhere and that color there...
Until they were all full up!(well, as many as we could do...)
I think the box said it would make like 28
pieces -- and it MIGHT have IF you didn't
make any of the cute FUN ones!
But of course, the BEARS were the mostfun! And they were BIG... she made one
of each of them, and I think we ended up
with 18 pieces overall.
Aren't they DARLING???
She really had a GOOD time making these!
AND bagging them up!I didn't taste one - I wanted to send them ALL home
with her so Amanda & Hector could SEE them!
But they said they were very tasty too!
(Amanda was actually surprised at how good they were!)
This was a GREAT, FUN project and I bet we do itagain for other holidays!
Beats the pants off a gingerbread house, I'll tell ya that!!!
Oh! And here's a little video of what I got Luz
for Valentine's Day! She loved it!
Labels: Grandbaby
posted by Melli at
3:01 AM
11 comment(s):
OMG I love her Valentine. You are such a great Nana. What wonderful pictures and how fun. This is just spectacular. And I love the scale moving to the right :) Well done :)
By
Anonymous, at
2/20/2010 3:14 AM
So fun!! I need you to send me a regular "activity schedule" so I can think of things like this to do wtih LG. I sometimes forget the importance of this sort of adventure/experience. Hope you're well.
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Susan, at
2/20/2010 8:02 AM
You are the best Nana ever! I love the little devil at the end! And the chocolate, oh that would have been hard to ignore!
By
Maribeth, at
2/20/2010 8:28 AM
I love the dancing devil - what a magical toy! :-)
It reminds me I must put batteries in my singing gerbil :-)
Good ol' Nana Melli - looks like a great day with Luz :-)
cq
By
craziequeen, at
2/20/2010 10:27 AM
What a fun activity! Definitely the microwave -- I can't imagine using a double boiler for that. I don't even have one.
By
Barbara H., at
2/20/2010 11:42 AM
You are an AWESOME Nana!!
Monday was most certainly not too late to do Valentines, at least not here -- that was when I helped SnakeMaster make his class Valentines (they exchanged cards on Wednesday).
I'll have to look into those candy suckers for next year. Great idea (esp. since we can use the microwave)!
By
Anonymous, at
2/20/2010 12:31 PM
Too cute! I love the dancing bear!
I also like the way the chocolate and vanilla candy bear came out. This does look like a fun kid's project.
By
quilly, at
2/20/2010 2:50 PM
She's just so very sweet! Thought I left a comment here this morning, but don't see it. WAnted you to know that I left you a present on my blog.
I really need you to make me a little "activity book"...cause I forget to take the time to do these things for the kids (and with them).
susan
By
Susan, at
2/20/2010 6:16 PM
I have never seen such a lot of artwork (modern art) at once ! You did a great job ! Unfortunately I couldn't watch the video because "this video is currently not available. Please try again later" is it censured ??
By
Ingrid, at
2/21/2010 1:35 AM
I tried it again, it worked, how funny the little devil !
By
Ingrid, at
2/21/2010 1:37 AM
I love the concentration she showed using the bags! Wow! And the glasses are priceless - new? You're such an ACE grandma...I can see how LUZ is a LIGHT in your life (yeah, 4 years of Spanish counts for something)
By
SouthLakesMom, at
2/22/2010 8:04 PM
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