The Crazy Truth About Chocolate

Presented by Laura OKane, Stefanie Schmidt, and John Driscoll

Ice-Breaker Activity with M&Ms:
When the M&Ms are passed around, take as many as you want but keep two. You can
eat the rest!

Now look at the two you kept. Depending on what colors they are, tell everyone your
answers to the following questions when your turn comes up. If you have two of the
same color, give two answers!

Red What was the last book you read, and what did you think of it?
Orange What's your favorite kind of candy and why?
Yellow What was the best thing that happened to you this week?
Green What do you like about coming to the library?
Blue What's the coolest place you've ever traveled to?
Brown If you could meet anyone from history, who would you meet and why?
Fun Fact: In Hershey, PA, street lights on the main street are shaped
like Hershey Kisses!

Here's an idea you can have fun with at home:
Invent your own candy bar! Think of all your favorite flavors you'd
like to see in a candy bar, and then make a poster advertising
your creation--don't forget to think of a clever name for your
invention!
Did You Know? Swiss people eat an average of 21 lbs of chocolate per year, yet Switzerland
has some of the lowest rates of heart failure and obesity in the world!


Chocolate Word Search: Try to find these candy bars:
R E G N I F R E T T U B O N
U X M I L K Y W A Y K T R E
F O L N S H I E P O A L T S
C D G B T W Z S H K E H U T
B R M A O A E M T S A E M L
R A E J B A B I T E R I V E
E H B O L E K C A R K E K C
H O B Y E E B L I U Q E H R
X I T K R S N I C K E R S U
I R T Y O U L M O U N D S N
W E H C N O T S E L R A H C
T W L Z E S E H H C E A P H



Baby Ruth
Butterfinger
Charleston Chew
Heath
Hershey
Kit Kat
Krackel
Milky Way
Mounds
Nestle Crunch
Snickers
Toblerone
Twix

Create Your Own Chocolates

Just like in todays program, you can create your own chocolate candies at home! Heres what
youll need:

Supplies:
Paintbrush
Chocolate mold
Spoon
Knife
Mixing Bowl

Ingredients:
Chocolate Chips
4 tbsp butter, softened This is a chocolate mold
2.5 cups confectioners sugar
Light corn syrup
Vanilla
Flavored oils: mint, lemon, coconut, raspberry, or
whatever you like!

If you dont have a chocolate mold (the plastic
sheet that holds the chocolates in a box), then
you can use an ice cube tray.
Flavored oils for your filling can be bought at
stores like Michaels

Directions:
1. Melt your chocolate chips in the microwave.
2. Use paintbrush to coat a thin layer of melted chocolate on the bottom and sides of the
mold.
3. Place the mold in the freezer until the coating is hardened.
4. Mix together the sugar and butter. Add tablespoons of corn syrup until mixture is
smooth and you can shape it into a ball.
5. Split up the filling into various flavors as needed.
6. Add the filling into your chocolate mold as desired.
7. Seal the chocolates with a layer of melted chocolate.
8. Place the mold in the freezer for 10-15 minutes until the chocolate is hard to the touch.
9. Carefully remove the chocolates. If they wont come out, then put them back in the
freezer for a few more minutes.
10. Enjoy!











Chocolate Quiz/Interesting Facts
1. The smell of chocolate triggers:
a. tiredness c. happiness
b. relaxation d. blood flow

2. White chocolate is not considered chocolate:
True False

3. Approximately how many cocoa beans does it take to make one pound of chocolate?
a. 400 c. 600
b. 100 d. 1,000

4. The inventor of the chocolate chip cookie sold the idea to Nestle Toll House in return for a lifetime
supply of chocolate.
True False

5. What candy was created in 1941 as a means for soldiers to enjoy chocolate without it melting?
a. Tootsie Roll c. M&Ms
b. Rolos d. Hersey Kisses

6. Every second, Americans collectively eat how many pounds of chocolate?
a. 500 c. 326
b. 1,000 d. 100

7. The worlds largest chocolate bar weighed 12,770 pounds.
True False

8. Milton Hersey cancelled his reservations for the Titanic due to last minute business matters.
True False

9. Eating dark chocolate every day is healthy for you.
True False

10. Eating chocolate can:
a. Make you hyper c. protect against tooth decay
b. Help cure a headache d. make you perform better in physical activities.


11. The average chocolate bar has __ bug legs in them.
a. 0 (thats disgusting!!) c. 6
b. 4 d. 8

12. The 3 Musketeers got its name from:
a. 3 best friends came up with the idea c. It was once made with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla
b. It has 3 different chocolates in it d. The man who invented it, loved the 3 Musketeers story

13. Hershey Kisses got its name because of the sound the machine made when they were made.
True False



BOOKS ABOUT CHOCOLATE!
Fiction:
Bosch, Pseudonymous. (2009). This Book is Not Good For You. New York, NY:
Hachette Book Group

Dahl, Roald. (1964). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York, NY: Alfred
A. Knopf

Smith, Robert Kimmel. (1972). Chocolate Fever. New York, NY: Penguin Group,
Inc.

Catling, Patrick Skene. (1979). The Chocolate Touch. New York, NY: William
Morrow & Company, Inc.

Selfors, Suzanne. (2012). The Sweetest Spell. New York, NY: Walker &
Company

Non-Fiction:
Morganelli, Adrianna. (2006). The Biography of Chocolate. New York, NY:
Crabtree Publishing Company

Tunnell, Michael O. (2010) Candy Bomber. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge

Ridley, Sarah. (2006). A Chocolate Bar. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens
Publishing.

Woods, Samuel G. (1999). Chocolate: From Start to Finish. Woodbridge, CT:
Blackbirch Press, Inc.

Price, Sean Stewart. (2009). The Story Behind Chocolate. Chicago, IL:
Heinemann Library

Buckley, James, Jr. (2013). Who Was Milton Hershey? New York, NY:
Grosset & Dunlap

Poetry:

Adoff, Arnold. (1989). Chocolate Dreams. New York, NY: William Morrow &
Company, Inc.