My kids have recently fallen in love with Max and Ruby. They will be thrilled to spend a day with this book!
- Read “Max’s Chocolate Chicken” by Rosemary Wells … Max needs to find more eggs than Ruby to win the chocolate chicken. She finds the most eggs, but Max and the chocolate chicken have disappeared!
- Easter Egg Memory Match … creating the game is just as much fun as playing it.
- Cut out several identical, blank egg shapes. Feel free to use the printable above (just click it to print!)
- Draw the same design on two eggs. Leave the back blank.
- Grab two more eggs and draw a different design.
- Continue until all your eggs have beautiful matching designs. You might even try drawing a chocolate chicken on one matching pair!
- NOTE: I may draw a design and have my preschooler copy me. Then have him draw a design and I’ll copy him.
- Spread the eggs out upside-down.
- Take turns turning over two eggs at a time, trying to find all of the matches!
- Read “What's for Lunch? Chocolate” by Claire Llewellyn … this is a simple little book that explains how chocolate starts as a cocoa bean, how it is grown, harvested and made into the chocolate we love to eat. Perfect for a preschool level.
- Chocolate Tasting … after finding all of those eggs, we’ll do a little chocolate tasting
- Get several different kinds of chocolate … white, dark, milk chocolate, semi-sweet, etc.
- Taste each one and have the kids try to describe it.
- Finger Paint a Chocolate Chicken
- Print the page above on cardstock (just click on the image).
- Trace the “Chocolate Chicken” words and have the kids write their name in the space above.
- Use brown paint or chocolate pudding to fingerprint your chocolate chicken!
- Make Chocolate Chicks!
- Oreo Chicks from Brown Paper Packages
- Dip Oreo cookies in yellow melted candy melts.
- Insert small pretzel sticks for legs.
- Add mini chocolate chips for eyes and an orange frosting beak.
- Chick Cake Pops … Wow. Directions on Bakerilla here.
