Valentine's Day Fun! (Chocolate Covered Strawberries and Rice Krispie Treat Kisses)

I had such a fun day with Sophie's class! I had an hour an a half to do Valentine's Day centers with the kids. I've been planning this for a while and 3 other moms came in to help. I started off by reading the kids Froggy's First Kiss. Then we started the centers. Valentine's Bingo was at one station. We made Frog Bean Bags at another station and then at my table, we made Rice Krispie treat kisses. I brought my wok into the classroom so we could melt the butter and marshmallows. The kids helped me read the recipe and after we mixed everything together, I crammed a serving of the rice krispie treat mixture into a well-greased funnel and placed it on the table. After letting it cool, the kids lift the funnel and . . . the Rice Krispie treats are in the shape of a (Heshey's) Kiss. To finish them off, we wrapped them in aluminum foil. They were so cute and the kids had fun making them with me. Mostly, I just let them measure the cereal and pour it into the marshmallow and butter mixture.

For the last several years, I have made chocolate covered strawberries as teacher gifts for Valentine's Day and this year was no different. Tiffany always gets me to make them for her kid's teachers too. Bo especially loves chocolate covered strawberries and me too. During the week of Valentine's, I start looking for some really good, big strawberries with the long stems if possible. This year I found some really nice ones at Walmart, believe it or not. Walmart also had the best prices on the Bakers Chocolate Dipping tubs. I think I ended up buying 8 pounds of strawberries and 9 tubs of the dipping chocolate. I made 11 teacher gifts.

Michael and I probably won't do anything special for Valentine's Day. We have a birthday party, 2 basketball games and a very long baseball practice tomorrow. Although it will be a busy day, it will be a great day being together with my family.

Happy Valentine's Day!