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Home | Store | Forum | What's New | Contact | About | Terms | Links | Storytime | UNCRC  Home - Setting parent partnerships   Supporting children in all their play and learning environments  Change-up the Easter egg hunt to a spring time chocolate carrot search! This activity idea was developed to offer an alternative to egg hunt events and to help build on  home-setting relationships where parents are active partners in planning group activities. on amazon.co.uk VEGAN - VEGETARIAN - GLUTEN FREE Utilise the activity as a fundraser if wished, include a raffle, games and enjoy the happenings in celebration of the season, spring equinox, and the new season of growth.   Chocolate has become a familiar part of the season's celebations being versatile, tasty and variations that meet dietary needs are now more easily found. The printables on this page compliment these attributes and in turn celebrate chocolate itself and what it's come to mean for the spring! Resources needed: For the chocolate gifts ..  A chocolate bar per participant  A carrot label per chocolate bar  Green tissue paper  Double sided sticky tape and stickers  Pen, scissors and basket to store Carrot labels blank or coloured with name plaque  & Search carrot  templates For the search carrots ..    A carrot printout per participant   Laminating pouches and access to a laminator   Scissors, hole punch   Green ribbon or string If holding a raffle to support an event's costs maybe purchase a cuddle rabbit as top gift and involve local rescue and rehousing centres to help promote thier pet care, ownership and support/donation information.  www.rabbitrehome.org.uk Making your game ..    Wrap each chocolate bar in green tissue paper and secure along the back.    Fold up one end and secure with tape or a sticker.    Snip the other open end to ressemble carrot leaves    Print and cut out a carrot label and attach to the front of the chocolate bar with double                sided sticky tape.    Add a name to the label where wanted. -------------     Make the game carrots by printing the templates to white card and colouring the carrot          bodies orange & leaf area green.      Cut out and laminate.    Hole punch at the carrot top and thread through a short length of string.    Knot to secure and hang to be found ..   Nutritional informaiton for cadbury's dairy milk chocolate bar - product and nutritional information  Promote healthy food choices by serving bowls of apple slices, carrot sticks, cucumber rounds and halved grapes to all chocolate carrot receivers .. Other carrot themed resources Rabbits carrots - cut and paste activity sheet Carrot leaf collage craft activity Diary of a carrot munching wombat and The GIANT carrot story book .. Carrot catch and dipping sticks game