My daughter's birthday party will be Saturday. And actually this is last minute planning since we have been out of town for a while. She is having a small party with about 5 friends. The theme of the party is chocolate. I plan to make her a chocolate cake and chocolate covered strawberries. Do you have any other ideas to make the party fun and chocolatey?
Thanks
Chocolate fondue... you can either buy or rent a chocolate fountain. provide a wooden skewer and some marshmallows, strawberries, nuts, pineapple, apple slices, dried fruit...
Smores
Sugar cookie decorating with M&Ms.
Ice cream sundaes
M&M pictures
Buy some candy molds and have them make candy to take home. I think the Wilton website should have info on how to do it. You could serve hot cocoa or chocolate milk. Maybe a fondue pot of melted chocolate with different kinds of fruit?
Instead of goody bags, put out bowls of different types of chocolate candies and have them each fill up a bag with whatever they want.
Prizes for games could be those huge Hershey kisses, or a giant chocolate bar.
We got a chocolate fountain for my daughters party... just a small one from Target that cost about $25... we had pretzles, marshmellows, strawberries, and canteloupe.... it was SOOO much fun! the kids got a total kick out of it! The fondu pot was a thought but heck it just doesnt look as cool.. and i was conserned about the kids getting burned trying to dip their food in
Play games with Hershey kisses like BINGO.
Make a piñata that looks like a hershey kiss....tin foil
Do a scavenger hunt in the house.
You could cut up a handful of different candy bars and blind fold the girls and have them guess what they are eating!
You can go to Michaels and get various choc. molds... just buy the little wilton melting discs, warm them in the microwave and pour into the mold...it is soooo easy - I just made a whole bunch of chocolate lego men for my son's party which is this weekend. It was the first time I had made any type of candy and I was really shocked how good it comes out for how easy it is :) Oh and chocolate covered oreos are really good too :)
~ Chocolate Ice Cream (to go with the cake)
~ Chocolate Cup Cakes - guests can decorate themselves with chocolate icing, M&Ms, chocolate shavings, sprinkles, chocolate chips, and dust with chocolate powder
~ Another vote for chocolate fountain.....and more ideas for dippers: pretzel sticks, pound cake
~ Does Willy Wonka bring anything else to mind?
~ Bobbing for Apples in Chocolate (in a smaller bowl, so it is easier to get them, maybe each has their own and it is a race for the chocolatey prize)
Ohh I would do a chocolate fondue fountain! You can buy or rent them...buy at Bed, Bath, and Beyond or a home store or you can rent from a party store. Then you get graham crackers, marshmallows, apples, bananas, strawberries, cheesecake bites, etc for them to dip into the chocolate! YUM!
You can do different types of chocolate like white, milk, dark, etc have sparkling grape juice with it in plastic champagne glasses. You can even make chocolate lollipops, they sell molds and the chocolate pieces for you to melt. You put the sticks in and then put them in a platic bag with a ribbon tie. This can be the goodie bag. You can decorate the table with hershey kisses, dove candies, etc
How fun!
let the girls make choc-covered pretzels with a variety of sprinkles....& let them each take home a goody bag full of them.
How about a taste-testing? Buy a variety of different chocs: white, dark, etc & let the girls try samples of each.
When I was a teacher we did a unit on chocolate--how it's made, etc. If you wanted to go to a teacher supply store and get a book for probably $5-7 with some additional activity ideas other than just eating chocolate--not that that isn't great! :) You could probably even Google "chocolate theme" or "lessons with chocolate" and you'd get some good ideas.
a chocolate fountain. use the big marshmallows and strawberries. You can also get the candy molds at walmart or a craft store and melt chocolate in them, buy the sticks to make suckers and make chocolate suckers, wrap them in foil so they take on the shape and look really cool.
games with hershey kisses. like a ring toss game or something like that. There is also a craft to make angels out of hershey kisses. I have seen them but haven't made one but looked pretty simple.
If you do end up using a chocolate fountain, have it in the middle of the table and they can even do a craft. use the sticks, dip them in chocolate and draw on paper with the chocolate. We had a chocolate fountain for a youth girls sleepover one night and they were using it to face paint each other lol but wouldn't recommend that since the chocolate is warm and could possibly burn them or have a reaction to it on their faces. This was what the teen girls came up with until we told them to stop but kids will be creative and come up with things on their own as well.
A candy bar is fun. You can have pics of your daughter arranged around some jar containers with candy like m&m's, skittles, and other loose candy. 3 or 4 jar containers would be plenty. This could be their goody bag, have each girl make their own bag and that would be their gift for coming. Very simple and fairly cheap. To tier the pics and jars, use some books, stack them at different heights and put material over them.
Have fun and sounds like a fun theme.
You can actually rent chocolate fountains, but even if you don't want to go that route, make a chocolate dip and let them dip fruit chunks (apple pineapple, banana, strawberry), angel food cake chunks, vanilla wafers, etc. Have chocolate milk individual packs. Gift bags could be chocolate candies, individually wrapped. Chocolate chips in the cake, maybe? Sounds like fun :)
