Candy Bar Bouquet

I like to give gifts to my kids' teachers on their birthday.  Generally, I have time to get to know the teacher so that I can pick a gift that they will like.  It just so happens that A.'s teacher's birthday was the first day of school.  I frantically had to figure out what his likes were.  Reading the list of things that were his favorites the only thing that came up was candy bars.  He didn't drink coffee so no starbucks, so I ran with the candy bar theme and decided to make a candy bar bouquet complete with a Kit Kat vase. 

First I went to my stash of styrofoam and I cut out a piece that was the length and width of a Kit Kat bar.  You can use floral styrofoam as well.  I just used what I had.  I taped the Kit Kat bar to each side of the styrofoam.

Voila! I get an instant vase!  It looks cute already, huh?

I used skewers and taped them underneath the candy bar wrapper flap so they wouldn't be seen.

Only the bottom of the skewer is shown.

 

Once all my candy bars were skewered, I stuck them into the styrofoam to make my bouquet.  Easy Peesy!

 

I thought it turned out pretty yummy myself.  One birthday down, a couple more to go!

Father's Day Ideas

I was perusing the internet for some cute hand made gifts for father's day and several things caught my eye on the martha stewart website:

Father's Day Cutout Frame
template

Magnet Bookmarks
template

Vintage Father's Day Coupons

printout

Photo Bookmark

Father's Day Flip Book

Father's Day

I hope everyone had a wonderful Father's day! Our day started out with a huge breakfast. Then each kid presented Dad with a card they made themselves (along with the photo card I had made to them to give).

Dad loved them!


R. and his "rectangle" drawing.


E. presenting his card. They are so tan in this picture.


A. even had a card to give his daddy.


I had to throw this picture of A. in here. Here he is eating his "hot dog" after a swim.
A. puts it perfectly when he says, "I LOVE you Daddy for eva and eva no mit a wut."

3 FREE Shutterfly Father's Day Cards

I came home to a lovely surprise in the mail. The Father's Day cards I had created arrived today! They turned out fabulous. My hubby doesn't read my blog so I am posting just one of the cards I made for him so you can get an idea of what you can create. I made a card for each kid to give to their Dad.

front

inside

The best deal of all is that Shutterfly is offering 3 Father's Day Greeting Cards for FREE. Use the coupon code CARDS4DAD at checkout. I paid $1.07 for tax and shipping, but this is still a great deal for these custom cards. Get your photos uploaded and make your cards soon. This offer is good only until June 10th.

Don't forget to make one for grandpa!