The days are getting very cold here and a fun way to warm things up is to have a hot cocoa day…
We had a little bit of everything going on around our classroom including some hot cocoa and marshmallow fine motor play…
We also enjoyed our homemade hot cocoa play dough (I put the hot cocoa playdough inside the hot chocolate mix can before the children arrived).  See this recipe for making your own Chocolate Playdough…
The children were quite surprised to discover the hot cocoa playdough once they opened the can…
The children explored the hot cocoa playdough by digging it out with our plastic tongs and filling up their paper cups…
We also did a little hot cocoa painting by mixing a little chocolate extract into our brown paint…
The children glued their hot cocoa mugs to a sheet of blue construction paper…
And then the children painted their hot cocoa mugs with the hot cocoa paint…
And of course, the children added a few marshmallow prints dipped in white paint to top it off…
Afterall, every good cup of hot cocoa has to have marshmallows! …
A day filled with the wonderful smell of hot cocoa and fine motor marshmallow fun…
Links to grow on…
Playdough recipes from PreKinders
Hot Cocoa ideas save on Delicious….
