Chocolate Eighth Notes: A Sweet Valentine’s Day Treat

Every Valentine’s Day I like to make my students a little music-themed treat. This year I made these cute chocolate eighth note!

Chocolate eighth notes are arranged in a circle with the flags at the center. The chocolates are surrounded by tiny pink hearts.

Check out my Valentine’s Day round-up post with more Valentines treats, activities and games!

If you’d like to make these sweet treats, here’s what you’ll need:

Depending on the size of the heart-shaped chocolates you are using, you may need to trim your coffee stirrers. I cut mine in half by etching a notch in the coffee stirrer with the X-acto knife. Then I broke the stirrer in half.

An X-acto knife cuts a coffee stirrer

Paint the coffee stirrer pink and cut out the eighth note flags from the cardstock. Glue the flags to the coffee stirrers with stick glue.

A pink eighth note flag and stem are placed next to a bottle of pink paint and a tube of stick glue.

Apply the double-sided tape to the end of the coffee stirrer.

The crafter applies double sided tape to the end of the pink eighth note stem.

Press one of the chocolate hearts onto the double-sided tape.

A chocolate is pressed against the tape on the pink eighth note stem

Apply double-sided tape the other side of the coffee stirrer and to the wrapping of the chocolate heart.

The crafter applies double sided tape to the back of the chocolate’s wrapper and the back of the pink eighth note stem

Press the second chocolate heart onto the first heart and stirrer.

The crafter presses the other chocolate onto the double sided tape

Optional: Write a message on the flag.

The crafter uses a black fountain pen to write a sweet message on the flag of the pink chocolate eighth note

And there you have it! 🙂 My students loved these sweet notes!

The pink chocolate eighth note sits on a piano keyboard

Explore more creative teaching ideas
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