Find out about the
history of chocolate, including how it first came to this country and how
it was first used. Act out this story with your Patrol.
2
Find
out as much as you can about where chocolate comes from and what journey a
cocoa bean undergoes from picking to ending up as a bar of chocolate. What
is fair trade chocolate? Which companies produce it? Compare the cost of a
bar of fair trade chocolate with other well-known bars of an equivalent
size.
3
Do
a Patrol or family survey. Get everyone to keep a record of the chocolate
they eat over a week. How do your results compare? What brands and
varieties of chocolate are most popular? Use the Internet or visit your
local library to find out what are the most popular brands of chocolate in
the UK.
4
Design a wrapper for a 21st Century chocolate bar. Consider the name as
well as the design. Do a drawing or painting of your wrapper or mock up
a chocolate bar.
5
Set up a tasting session with your Patrol to try a variety
of different chocolate products, eg chocolate drinks, Easter eggs,
chocolate mousses, chocolate biscuits.
6
Make at least two of the following using chocolate:
Ribbons
Curls
Leaves
Baskets
Writing
Boxes
Cut-outs
Ganache
7
Make up your own drink recipe using cocoa powder, drinking
chocolate or a bar of chocolate. Prepare it and ask your Patrol to taste
test it.
8
Make
up a game using chocolates and play it with your Patrol.
9
Write a suitable
story about a cartoon chocolate character. Read it to a young child.
10
Make a selection of
sweets using melted chocolate. Work out how much they cost to make and
compare this with similar bought chocolates.
