WORLD CHOCOLATE DAY (7 JULY)
(History, Significance & Celebration)
“A day without a chocolate is a day without sunshine.
Life without chocolate is like an ocean without water.”
World Chocolate Day is celebrated annually on July 7.
This is a day to indulge in your favourite chocolate, whether it is chocolate
cake, hot chocolate, a chocolate candy bar, chocolate ice
cream, brownies or something covered in chocolate.
Chocolate is one such dish which is liked by everyone. Gifting chocolates to anyone
removes all kinds of depression, misunderstandings and sorrows.
Also, through this people stay together and mix sweetness in their
relationships.
History of World Chocolate Day Celebration:
In 1550, on 7th July, Chocolate Day
was celebrated for the first time in Europe. After which it started
being celebrated all over the world. It is believed that chocolate came to this
world about four thousand years ago. The chocolate tree was first
seen in America. In America, chocolate was made
from the seeds of the bean of the chocolate tree. Readers should note
that America and Mexico were the first to experiment on
chocolate in the world.
More about Chocolate....
The experiment on chocolate was started from the
seeds which are in the bean of the chocolate tree in the forest of
America. Mexico and America were the first in the list of experimenters
on chocolate. In the year 1528, the King of Spain captured Mexico.
During this, the king liked Coco very much. After this he took the
cassette of cocoa seeds from Mexico to Spain. Soon, chocolate
became the favourite drink of the nobles in Spain.
- ü It is said that in 1528, the King of Spain
captured Mexico. Here the king liked cocoa very much.
After this the king took the cocoa seeds from Mexico to Spain.
After which chocolate came into play there.
- ü In the early
stages, the taste of chocolate was pungent.
- ü To change this
taste, its cold coffee was made by adding other things besides honey and
vanilla.
- ü After this a doctor Sir Hans Sloan prepared it and
made it edible from drinking and named it Cadbury Milk Chocolate.
- ü In 1828, a Dutch chemist named Conrad
Johannes Van Houten created a machine called the Cocoa Press.
- ü The sharpness of chocolate was removed
through this machine.
- ü After this, in 1848, the British chocolate
company J.A.R. Fry & Sons made chocolate for the first
time by mixing butter, milk and sugar in cocoa, making it hard
for the first time.
Grade wise Classroom Activity/ Competition from Nursery to 12th:
In Bloomsbury School class-IV presented the assembly
on World Chocolate Day. The class students presented a poem on
Chocolate, a short speech about World Chocolate Day (7 July), its
history and significance was given in the assembly. The Activity Coordinator
presented a special activity/ competition plan for this occasion in the
assembly. She presented the special activity/ competition plan
consisting of a detailed Activity Manual along with all the required Resources
like Worksheets, Handouts etc. to each class teacher.
The class wise activities (30 to 40 minutes each) were as follows:
1) Nur to UKG – My Chocolate Cookie (A Painting and Poem Recitation Activity)
2) Class 1 and 2 – Be like a Chocolate, Act like One! (Solo Enactments)
3) Class 3 to 5 – The Chocolate Tale (A unique Story Writing Activity)
4) Class 6 to 8 – Chocolicious (A Creative Designing Activity)
5) Class 9 and 10 – Chocolate at its best! (A Creative Designing Activity)
6) Class 11 and 12 – The Chocolaty Way (A Group Role Play Activity)
The Principal reiterated the way to relish chocolates
along with proper dental hygiene.
World Chocolate Day can be easily celebrated like a festival. On this
day you can easily exchange chocolates and gifts to your loved ones and
can make your relationships strong. Chocolates are loved by young and
old. On some special occasions or to make someone happy we can gift chocolates.
“When we don’t
have the words chocolate can speak volumes.”- Joan Bauer
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