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By Amanda Boyarshinov 12 Comments

Snowmen Candy Bars Make Great Teacher Gifts

Snowman Chocolate Bar Gift Idea

For less than $5. let your children make Snowmen Candy Bars, a small gift for their teachers, neighbors, or friends.

Snowman Chocolate Bar Gift Idea

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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
Kid Made Snowman Chocolate Bar Wrapper
  1. 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.

Making a Snowman Candy Wrapper for Gift

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.

Create snowman chocolate bar for holiday gifts

You could also grab your favorite snowman book and pair a candy bar with a book as a gift for a friend.

For more Gift Ideas from The Educators’ Spin On It Click HERE

You might also like these gift ideas for the Holidays.

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Teddy Bear Chocolate Bar Gift Idea
  • Gingerbread Gift Wrap 
  • Reindeer Candy Bar Wrappers
  • Holiday Bear Gift Wrap 

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Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Amanda, Christmas, Gift Ideas, Winter

About Amanda Boyarshinov

K - 12 masters reading teacher, author and mom to 3. Amanda is a National Board Certified teacher with oodles of experience in early childhood education.

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Comments

  1. The Kuhn Family says

    December 17, 2011 at 2:01 am

    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 🙂

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  2. JDaniel4's Mom says

    December 17, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    Please link this post to my Christmas Traditions link up in the Recipe section! It starts today!

    This is a great gift idea!

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  3. Little Wonders' Days says

    December 17, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    I love this craft. How cute!! I bet they love the Ghirardelli bars.

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  4. Amanda says

    December 17, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    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!

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  5. Becky says

    December 18, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    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!

    Reply
  6. Fawn says

    December 18, 2011 at 11:15 pm

    So cute! I can't imagine there's any teacher who won't absolutely love these cool snowman candy bars.

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  7. Laura of Our Virginia Home says

    December 20, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    These are very cute! Great project idea.

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  8. crystal says

    December 22, 2011 at 5:38 pm

    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

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  9. Crystal says

    December 30, 2011 at 7:05 am

    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

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  10. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    January 3, 2012 at 10:40 pm

    Yeah! Thanks Crystal for sharing our post! We enjoyed receiving our own snowman from Amanda too!

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  11. kids creative chaos says

    February 10, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    I'm linking these up to a Snowman post on Sunday! I love them so much 🙂

    Reply

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