Last year, I saw these (well, Martha's version of these) in Martha Stewart Living magazine. Instructions are online here. We made them last year, and again this year for teacher (and neighbor) gifts. Inside is a yummy chocolate. Martha recommends an organic fair trade variety, but she just doesn't understand that we have a lot of teachers to shop for and are on a budget! I picked up the Giradelli Peppermint Bars on sale. If you bought more than $10 worth, you got a coupon for $3 off the next visit. So it ended up less than $2.00 for a home-made, edible, and CUTE gift!
While I wrapper the computer paper around the candy bars, Elly cut out carrot noses.
She stamped the mouths and buttons with a pencil eraser. I stamped the eyes with a marker cap and colored them in with a black marker. She then glued the noses on. We cut some red fleece for the scarves, but almost any fabric scrap or ribbon would work. If you are talented - you could pre-print a message on the computer paper before wrapping too.
She delivered them to her teachers this morning saying, "I made this especially for you!" It was very sweet.
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These are ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!! :)) Think I may have to steal this idea from you!
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Please link this post to my Christmas Traditions link up in the Recipe section! It starts today!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great gift idea!
I love this craft. How cute!! I bet they love the Ghirardelli bars.
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies =) Good teachers and parents share ideas all the time - I can't even claim this one as my own, it is our spin on one of Martha's crafts! The teachers LOVED them! One of them pulled me aside and confessed that she went to the store and bought a bunch of candy bars that afternoon and had her older girls make these for their teachers! I thought that was so sweet!
ReplyDeleteThose are awesome!! As a teacher-on-hiatus, I would have LOVED to have received one of those with such a sweet message :) Well done, Mama!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this with us at Rub Some Dirt On It!
So cute! I can't imagine there's any teacher who won't absolutely love these cool snowman candy bars.
ReplyDeleteThese are very cute! Great project idea.
ReplyDeleteAdorable! I am featuring you on my Facebook page! Thank you for linking up and sharing! http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150443630398602&set=a.375937893601.155744.188484568601&type=1
ReplyDeleteCongrats on being my top most clicked item in my Mommy Solutions link up last week. Such an adorable project! http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/12/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions-24/
ReplyDeleteHave a super week, Crystal
Yeah! Thanks Crystal for sharing our post! We enjoyed receiving our own snowman from Amanda too!
ReplyDeleteI'm linking these up to a Snowman post on Sunday! I love them so much :-)
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