This week we're learning about African Elephants! By Thursday, we'd learned elephants are herbivores that eat grass, twigs, roots and tree bark. How to be an Elephant by Katherine Roy, also taught us baby elephants will eat poop of adults in their herd (one of our favorite facts this week!). Check out how we eat like an elephant!
We chose "bark", "grass" and "elephant poop" for breakfast Thursday.
"Poop"
Elephant poop was easy! Small mozzarella balls from Trader Joe's checked this box.
"Grass"
Grass was next on the list for ease. We cooked up Trader Joe's Trofie pasta, added grassfed butter and green food coloring. This is a great opportunity for the kids to self-serve.
"Bark"
The tough one, and full of the most life lessons, was "bark". We made this bark the day after Halloween. "Let's call it Halloween Bark", exclaimed my oldest. Such a great idea and a great way to use up a few of those pieces.
My kids chose a handful of plain candies to melt: Crunch, Hershey's and a Reese's. Unwrapping candies is hard fine motor work for tinies, life lesson #1! We talked through how melting chocolate is a delicate task. It's easy to burn so the "right" way would be a double boiler. A double boiler is boiling water under a pot of chocolate. This allows the hot water to melt the chocolate rather than a direct heat source, life lesson #2! But of course, we're no five star restaurant, so we talked about the "easy" way to melt our chocolate in the microwave. In 15 second increments, stirring well between spurts of heating. It took about 45 seconds to melt our chocolate base.
We spread our chocolate on parchment paper. They kids chose pretzels "sticks" and M&Ms to mash up in a plastic bag and throw on top of the chocolate base. Toss that into the freezer for 15 minutes and viola!
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