His sweet teacher is buying each of her 12 students a beach bag and putting in gifts from each child to the other children in the class. The gifts are supposed to be affordable and summer specific.
I found a great, CHEAP gift idea from two sources--both which I listed on my Friday Favorites lately.
Fakin It gave us a great way to package up Kool Aid packets and straws so classmates could have a "kool" summer. The week after, Crystal and Company shared some great homemade snow cone syrup recipes. I loved the one she gave us from Skip to My Lou, because it used Kool aid packets! Genius! I combined the two ideas and packaged the gift up in a coordinating tumbler.
First, I found Kool Aid packets for 15 cents each at Target. Then, I found red, yellow and orange straws at Target. I couldn't find the cute swirly straws I wanted, but I'll be on the hunt for next year! I also found four red tumblers for 1 dollar at Target--gotta love the dollar bin. Then I grabbed some scrapbook paper at Michael's and made a cute class gift.
I didn't have the pattern for the scrapbook paper wrap (mentioned in Fakin It), so I just measured around the Kool Aid packet and cut a window in the paper to see the Kool Aid through. Then I taped some straws to the inner flap and glued it shut.
On the reverse, I glued the snow cone recipe and a little message for each child in my son's class. I stuffed each packet into a tumbler and gave them to the teacher to put in each beach bag. Voila! Each gift cost me a little over a dollar, and it turned out very cute!
Have a "kool" summer!
Great idea and even better easy :) Thanks for sharing!! I can totally relate! We are hosting a link party called “Help a Momma Out” on our blog today! This would be an awesome link up! Please feel free to add it! We appreciate it! :)
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So great!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea! This looks easy like even I could do it =) I found you via the blog hop. You have a CUTE blog!!
ReplyDeleteSuper idea! I love cheap ideas for things like that, it can get expensive when you are doing a whole class! Perfect! Thanks for sharing.
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Nice! I was wondering where those straws in the pantry came from...
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