Chocolate medals

In celebration for the Olympics starting tomorrow we decided to make some sweet treats to enjoy ourselves and to give others as presents. These chocolate medals have been great fun to make and so simple. All you need is 

• Two blocks of cooking chocolate or one depending on how many you want to make 
• Decorations
• Mould 
• Laces

Break up the chocolate trying not to eat any

Melt the chocolate in the microwave.  Little Boo enjoyed putting the time in.

Place chocolate into moulds we just used the cupcake ones.

Place decorations onto the chocolate (we were able to sprinkle these above the cases as the chocolate is still quite warm so be careful)

Place into the fridge to set

I put holes into the chocolates using a skewer.  

Thread the medals with strawberry laces

Decorate the medals with squeeze icing (add numbers 1st, 2nd, 3rd)

Little Boo enjoyed this bit we did some with
numbers then the others we just made pretty.

Store in the fridge and eat and enjoy!  Sorry about the unhealthy nature of the post.  I just thought they would make great gifts for people to enjoy during the opening ceremony.  Get us thinking about all those medals! 

Our pom pom Olympics

Today we have done a really simple activity and made some pom poms they are so cute! I got the idea from a website and just changed it a bit to suit what we wanted to do. To make this activity easy I prepared all the cut outs such as the feet and the cone for the torch and placed double sided sticky tape on all the items.  

All the items needed were in my craft cupboard which is even better! 

What is needed for each one 

• 2 googly eyes
• one big pom pom 
• piece of card to make a cone or pipe cleaner and own choice of flag printed.
• piece of card in shape of feet (as shown in picture)
• tissue paper -red, orange and yellow. (if doing Olympic torch)
• double sided sticky tape
• PVA glue

The double sided sticky tape just means that Little Boo can create this more independently and she also loves to peel the backing off, which is all good for improving fine motor skills! 

ripping the tissue paper for the torch 

Place PVA glue into the torch then add the tissue paper

Sticking on googly eyes 

Peeling off the sticky tape back for the feet

We just stuck the torch on again using double sided tape then one was completed but  "he needed a friend" 

So we set about making a "friend" exactly the same way but printed off a flag instead for him to hold. 

It was really good to show Little Boo what the different flags looked like.

The flag was printed twice on a long strip then just folded over  the pipe cleaner. This was taped onto the bottom of the pom pom.

Then there were two. With a little bit of blue tac these are going to proudly sit on my computer!  

These would make wonderful Olympic themed gifts for people.