For less than $5. let your children make Snowmen Candy Bars, a small gift for their teachers, neighbors, or friends.
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Last year, I saw these (well, Martha’s version of Snowman Candy Bars) in Martha Stewart Living magazine. We like to put OUR SPIN ON IT! 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 $5.00 for a home-made, edible, and CUTE gift!
Create Your Own Snowman Candy Bars
Materials Needed:
- White Multipurpose Paper
- Pencil
- Black Washable Ink Pad
- RED Fabric
- school glue
- fabric scissors
- Black permanent marker
- Chocolate bar
- Orange Construction Paper
- Kids scissors
- Wrap one White Multipurpose Paper around the candy bars like you are wrapping a gift. Glue to shut.
2. While the wrapping dries, cut out carrot noses from the Orange Construction Paper.
3. Stamp the mouth and buttons with a pencil eraser.
4. I stamped the eyes with a marker cap and colored them in with a black permanent marker.
5. Let your child glue the noses on.
6. Cut some red fabric into long rectangle strips for the scarves, ribbon would work. Tie it around the neck area. Glue if needed.
If you are talented – you could pre-print a message on the computer paper before wrapping too.
My daughter delivered these snowman candy bars to her teachers this morning saying, “I made this especially for you!” It was very sweet.
You could also grab your favorite snowman book and pair a candy bar with a book as a gift for a friend.
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I'm linking these up to a Snowman post on Sunday! I love them so much 🙂
Yeah! Thanks Crystal for sharing our post! We enjoyed receiving our own snowman from Amanda too!
Congrats 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/
Have a super week, Crystal
Adorable! 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
These are very cute! Great project idea.
So cute! I can't imagine there's any teacher who won't absolutely love these cool snowman candy bars.
Those 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!
Thanks for sharing this with us at Rub Some Dirt On It!
Thanks 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!
I love this craft. How cute!! I bet they love the Ghirardelli bars.
Please link this post to my Christmas Traditions link up in the Recipe section! It starts today!
This is a great gift idea!
These are ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!! :)) Think I may have to steal this idea from you!
P.s. New follower from – From Tantrums To Treasure Hunts, and so excited to your blog is amazing 🙂