Kelly kettle hot chocolate

The winter warmer ritual: children feed the kettle chimney with pencil-thin sticks, and the reward is a steaming cup on a cold morning. Winter sessions run on this.

How it goes

1. Collect dead, dry, pencil-thin twigs — snap test: it cracks, it's dry.
2. Adult lights the base; children feed the chimney from the side, one twig at a time.
3. Watch for the rolling boil; adult pours away from everyone.
4. Mix, cool-check, and drink it around the fire circle with a story.